toddg-473-289818 At the beginning, Timber Falls had a few good things going for it. We got to see some nice cinematography in the hills of West Virginia, and the audience can figure that a couple from the city are going to get more than they bargained for while hiking out in the wilderness. The main characters' first run in with harassing backwoods thugs winds up being far from their worst confrontation, which is an original twist.We then are exposed to immediate turn offs, such as the mountain woman that Mike and Sheryl meet early into their journey, whose contrived attitude expresses disdain at the couple not being married. We later meet her husband, played by Nick Searcy, who is even more bothered by the out-of-wedlock couple, and holds them prisoners to a shotgun wedding. I'm sure Nick Searcy would like to delete this film from his resume, as he shortly thereafter became more well known on TV's JUSTIFIED. We then go down the hopeless road of "why are horror movie characters so stupid?" This plays out several times, beginning with Sheryl's insistence that Mike get rid of the ammunition for his gun AFTER they have just been harassed by armed rednecks. Then Mike, already beaten and bloodied, seems to go out of his way to antagonize Nick Searcy's Clyde, who is not a fan of foul language, and regularly earns beatings from which he doesn't learn to curb his tongue. The final insult is Clyde's character being a park ranger by day and twisted religious zealot by night. It is too much to believe that all of the now missing couples captured for breeding by Clyde and wife Ida would not have aroused suspicion sooner.Oh, and looking back, neither Mike nor Sheryl are particularly likable, and give the audience little reason to cheer for their escape. Even the most predictable campy horror movies are better than TIMBER FALLS.

showtrmp "Timber Falls" is like a "Saw" movie without the charm. There are a handful of good things in this tiresome gore-fest, but nothing that can't be traced to older, better movies--well, nothing except the wonderful Beth Broderick, who is so transcendentally good here she might be playing Lady Macbeth inside "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 14". (The person connected with this film who seems most deserving of torture is the agent who persuaded her to sign on. Is this all she's offered these days?) It's been, what, forty years since "Deliverance"--hasn't the evil-hillbillies-attacking-pampered-city-folk plot line had its day? And is it some kind of law that the protagonists of every horror thriller need to make increasingly stupid decisions that make the audience hate them? The female lead here is required to trip and fall TWICE while fleeing her attacker (each time taking about twenty minutes to gather herself together again); the only fresh twist is that the male lead is even more stupid (he trips too, and also backs right into a bear trap.) Once captured, this unappealing couple does nothing but scream and beg for over an hour while the religious-fanatic villains subject them to witless, boring ordeals. If we cared about the leads, or if they were resourceful enough to try some psychological wit-matching (at least), there might be genuine suspense. As it is, there's nothing to look forward to but more and more (fake-looking) gore, topped by an ending that doesn't try for cleverness or plausibility. (If you can't have one, you need the other badly).

PippinInOz Okay, you are a budding young actor, just waiting for your 'big break'. You have been for the audition, done the screen test and - woohoo! - you have the role!!Shame that 'big break' was in one of the most unintentionally hilarious films of the past ten years. If you have *any* knowledge of films and a sense of humour more in tune with 'Spinal Tap'; 'Sean of the Dead' or 'The Office' say, then this is for you. You will not be able to look away, although you know you should.As mentioned by several of the reviewers here, narratives and scenes are 'borrowed' from other films with a loud 'Kerclunk' (Yes I know it isn't a word, but it is the feeling you get). Everything is SPELLED OUT for you (example: the classic moment where one of the loony yokels explains that the male 'camper' - not a happy camper at all - must 'atone' for his sin of copulating with his girlfriend....). Suggestion: Host a 'Timber Falls' party - award a prize at the end for the person who has listed the most clichés and stolen scenes. A copy of 'Deliverance' maybe. There are several scenes here which are so funny (and I won't spoil it for you....) that the entire cast should be awarded special commendations for managing not to laugh . Oh, if only the makers of such weak attempts at humour like the 'Scary Movie' franchise could have been this witty. A Turkey? Yes sure, but if you share my sense of humour you will love it. A comic gem.

ctomvelu1 What is it about West Virginia? A young couple decides to go hiking in the mountains there, and end up being imprisoned by a deranged hillbilly clan looking to have a baby as their inbred nature has caused the woman in the group to miscarry numerous times. This STV takes its cues from WRONG TURN, Texas CHAINSAW and HILLS HAVE EYES. At best, it is a time killer. The special effects are nothing to write home about, and the bloodletting is kept to a minimum. There is one good torture scene. Better acting than one might have expected, too, from Nick Searcy as the clan's patriarch and Josh Randall as the hero. Both are familiar TV faces. Like so many of these films, it was shot in eastern Europe, although unlike the recent WRONG TURN 3, nothing about the film betrays this. Unless you count some over-the-top backwoods accents.