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Backwoods
SCREENER/APPROX. 95 MINS/2007/USA UNRATED
SCREENER/APPROX. 95 MINS/2007/USA UNRATED
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A group of teenagers decide to spend the day with Carrie (Carie Keller) at a local cemetery on the outskirts of town, so Carrie can visit and pay
respect to her recently departed fathers grave. On the way back into town, they somehow get lost in the back roads within the woods. They
decide to play it safe and not waste anymore gas and pull up outside a house along the road they are on and ask for help, but unfortunately for
them a deformed psychotic killer named Caleb who gets his kicks out of killing living things, is living in the basement of the house. One by one the
group split up to see if can they can maybe find someone to give them the right directions back into town, until a horny young couple Jessica
(Caitlin Rahsman) and Ben (Joey Rogers) decide to fool around in the barnyard, they are the first to feel the killers cold hard steel. Back at the
house Carrie is trying to find away to tell Tommy (Mike Cosgrove) that she is pregnant and she isn't too sure if she wants to have his child. While
Carrie and Tommy are arguing they both are unaware what exactly is happening to their friends in the house, until Rachael (Beth Harper) comes
flying through the kitchen window, and the masked killer begins to hunt down the two remaining teenagers. Will they find help? Can Carrie and
Tommy survive or will Caleb viscously mutilate and torture them both to death? You'll have to find out for yourself....
Independent filmmaker Robert Elkins who is the founder of Eyesore Productions, brings us a some what interesting but not so new little indie
slasher flick called Backwoods. I wasn't quiet sure what to think of this film at the beginning, cause it started off rather slow and then built up to a
awesome suspenseful ending. To some Backwoods is like showing a little insight of the legend camp slasher Jason Voorhees, and showing us
what Jason would of been like after he seen his mother getting decapitated by a camp counselor on the lake when he was in his teenager years
and throwing him into a Texas Chainsaw Massacre environment to basically kill any poor son of a bitch who rocks up to the old abandon house.
Sounds cool right? Well its was definitely a good story, but as like all indie films they tend to have cut-throat special effects and unknown actors
who make do with what they have to offer.
For me the acting was I guess borderline. I think I was more pissed about the boom mic guy not keeping the mic over the actor who was talking,
one second the audio was fine and clear as, and then the next the other actor talks and you are flat out hearing what the hell they had to say. I
found myself turning up and down the speakers a number of times, but not to the point where it pissed me right off and I wanted to turn off the
movie, it was bearable to watch and listen too. Though all the cast and especially actress Carie Keller who played Carrie played a solid role in
Backwoods, and not to mention the care taker was fucking funny as hell to watch and listen to throughout the film.
The special effects were all done by director Robert Elkins; and you can definitely feel and see the low budget to the very end in Backwoods, but
what I love about indie cinema are the ways of capturing the visual effects and shooting death scenes. Robert certainly did a outstanding job with
what he had to work with, and low angles shots make a horror film much more realistic and spooky. The scene that I have to say was fucking
priceless, was when you got to see Caleb as a baby, it brought back memories of films like Its Alive and the mall baby in the Dawn of the Dead
remake.
Also the score was pretty terrible at times, I thought my mobile was going off while watching this film, and one last thing that I have to mention is
the sound effects on the drunken Sherriff (Jerry E. Long) firing his gun at a empty bottle within the woods, FUCK the thing sounded like a canon on
a battleship going off.
But all in all, Backwoods is a cheesy low budget slasher flick that is not to be taken to heart, and is very enjoyable to mellow out to one day. If you
are a huge fan of the potato sack Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series, well you are going to get a huge kick out of this film. So if you love
indie cinema, low budget special effects, unknown actors giving it their best while a deformed psychotic killer is on a killing rampage, well look no
further, this is the film you want to buy right now.
respect to her recently departed fathers grave. On the way back into town, they somehow get lost in the back roads within the woods. They
decide to play it safe and not waste anymore gas and pull up outside a house along the road they are on and ask for help, but unfortunately for
them a deformed psychotic killer named Caleb who gets his kicks out of killing living things, is living in the basement of the house. One by one the
group split up to see if can they can maybe find someone to give them the right directions back into town, until a horny young couple Jessica
(Caitlin Rahsman) and Ben (Joey Rogers) decide to fool around in the barnyard, they are the first to feel the killers cold hard steel. Back at the
house Carrie is trying to find away to tell Tommy (Mike Cosgrove) that she is pregnant and she isn't too sure if she wants to have his child. While
Carrie and Tommy are arguing they both are unaware what exactly is happening to their friends in the house, until Rachael (Beth Harper) comes
flying through the kitchen window, and the masked killer begins to hunt down the two remaining teenagers. Will they find help? Can Carrie and
Tommy survive or will Caleb viscously mutilate and torture them both to death? You'll have to find out for yourself....
Independent filmmaker Robert Elkins who is the founder of Eyesore Productions, brings us a some what interesting but not so new little indie
slasher flick called Backwoods. I wasn't quiet sure what to think of this film at the beginning, cause it started off rather slow and then built up to a
awesome suspenseful ending. To some Backwoods is like showing a little insight of the legend camp slasher Jason Voorhees, and showing us
what Jason would of been like after he seen his mother getting decapitated by a camp counselor on the lake when he was in his teenager years
and throwing him into a Texas Chainsaw Massacre environment to basically kill any poor son of a bitch who rocks up to the old abandon house.
Sounds cool right? Well its was definitely a good story, but as like all indie films they tend to have cut-throat special effects and unknown actors
who make do with what they have to offer.
For me the acting was I guess borderline. I think I was more pissed about the boom mic guy not keeping the mic over the actor who was talking,
one second the audio was fine and clear as, and then the next the other actor talks and you are flat out hearing what the hell they had to say. I
found myself turning up and down the speakers a number of times, but not to the point where it pissed me right off and I wanted to turn off the
movie, it was bearable to watch and listen too. Though all the cast and especially actress Carie Keller who played Carrie played a solid role in
Backwoods, and not to mention the care taker was fucking funny as hell to watch and listen to throughout the film.
The special effects were all done by director Robert Elkins; and you can definitely feel and see the low budget to the very end in Backwoods, but
what I love about indie cinema are the ways of capturing the visual effects and shooting death scenes. Robert certainly did a outstanding job with
what he had to work with, and low angles shots make a horror film much more realistic and spooky. The scene that I have to say was fucking
priceless, was when you got to see Caleb as a baby, it brought back memories of films like Its Alive and the mall baby in the Dawn of the Dead
remake.
Also the score was pretty terrible at times, I thought my mobile was going off while watching this film, and one last thing that I have to mention is
the sound effects on the drunken Sherriff (Jerry E. Long) firing his gun at a empty bottle within the woods, FUCK the thing sounded like a canon on
a battleship going off.
But all in all, Backwoods is a cheesy low budget slasher flick that is not to be taken to heart, and is very enjoyable to mellow out to one day. If you
are a huge fan of the potato sack Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series, well you are going to get a huge kick out of this film. So if you love
indie cinema, low budget special effects, unknown actors giving it their best while a deformed psychotic killer is on a killing rampage, well look no
further, this is the film you want to buy right now.
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