Woodyanders Upstanding family man Holland Price (a solid and likable performance by Brad Loree) has both his wife and daughter taken away from him by mysterious psychotic stranger Mr. Hush (deliciously played with lip-smacking evil relish by Edward X. Young). In the wake of this tragedy Holland decides to move to another town to star a new life for himself. However, Mr. Hush shows up again to further torment Holland. Writer/director David Lee Madison relates the engrossing story at a steady pace, takes time to develop the credible true-to-life characters, grounds the fantastic premise in a believable sleepy small town reality, neatly captures a fun'n'festive Halloweenish ooga-booga atmosphere, and tops everything off with a wickedly funny sense of campy pitch-black humor. Moreover, Lee Madison warrants extra praise for downplaying special effects in favor of focusing instead on the plot and characters. Stephen Geoffreys delivers a delightfully manic turn as Mr. Hush's pathetic cackling lackey Stark. In addition, there are sturdy thespic contributions from Jessica Cameron as Holland's sweet wife Julie, Connie Giordano as the perky Debbie, Alexis Lauren as spunky teenager Kat, Tim Dougherty as Holland's loyal pal Donald, and Thomas J. Churchill as the earnest Sheriff Churchill. Brian O'Halloran of "Clerks" fame has an amusing small part at the very end. Cinematographer Jack Schaefer's expert use of a hand-held camera provides an extra kinetic buzz. Marco Werba's elegant shivery score does the spine-tingling trick. A cool little fright flick.

tim-s-taylor-sr What a waste of an hour and half! The camera work was so shaky I got motion sickness(maybe it was the acting), the shots were so close every time the characters shifter a little the camera would move up down or sideways. I guess you could turn this movie into a drinking game, every time Holland screams you drink- might last 5 minutes. If you watch this don't blame me. Gotta add more lines so this will post Bad Movie Really Bad! The only thing I liked about it was they filmed near my old home, Stroudsburg and the woods were nice I feel bad for anyone else that watches this. The actor that plays the lead Holland has a very nice acting/stunt resume wonder if he can keep this one off? I think I have enough. Text to post

mitchell-1829 This is nearly unwatchable, and anyone that gives it over 3 stars is clearly an actor in the film, a family member of one of the actors, the director, or made the mistake of funding the film and is trying to get their money back by bumping the IMDb score.While I fully support independent films, this is film is poorly conceived on many levels. If you can get past the poor acting, cinematography, plot, directing, audio engineering, and vomit invoking lines... your still left with a film where you just don't care what happens, except to see just how ridiculous it gets. My core question, did they bother to take multiple takes or was this a "first take only" kind of film (aka, "dude, that first take might work... NEXT!"). Finally, the monologuing was completely over the top. No offense, but if you killed my wife and my girlfriend, I wouldn't let you blabber on about my grandfather... I'd just bash you with a bat and try to get out of the house.One of the worst parts:The "dream sequence," or whatever the heck that was, between Holland Price (Brad Loree) and his grandmother (~1 hour in) nearly made me want to destroy my TV. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? Also, the last 10 minutes is just laughable... as it's clear they simply gave up. I'm sure someone will say, "Oh, you just didn't get it." To that, you are wrong. It just didn't make sense. If that mess you call a movie was an attempt at horror, or a horror comedy, or something else, you missed on every mark.The one bright spot was Alexis Lauren, she did a good job and I could see her surviving this film and going on to do other things.Don't forget to watch the final credits as they actually had the guts to leave a sequel open? My vote, don't do it.

random4ever this movie is something else, just when you thought you seen the worst film possible you can watch this and regret losing out on 85 or so minutes of your life.this thing blows from start to finish and you wonder why you wasted so much time watching this only to remember that you seen everything else and you hate infomercials even more. were talking super cheesy lines with amazingly bad acting. when it comes down to it, blame the director, producer and writer. the actors did it for the paycheck the others were the ones who thought this was a good idea.do not watch, you will become more stupid after watching this movie.