In the Woods

Year: 1998

Director: Lynn Drzick

Written by: Lynn Drzick

Threat: Devil Dog

Weapon of Choice: Teeth

Based upon: nothing

IMDb page: IMDb link

      In the Woods

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The tyranist's thoughts
Lovingly made crap. It was obvious throughout that they thought they were making a fine movie and that they cared about the end result. Unfortunatly, crap lovingly made is still crap.
There's this fireman, who happens to be a lush, who is having difficulties with the demands of the job and whose wife is having difficulties with him. So he heads out to the woods with the fire chief for a little hunting expedition where they inexplicably decide to exhume a grave. Well, it ain't pretty, the thing they find and soon the maiming begins.
This looked pretty low-budget, but it had at least a few skilled people behind it. Maybe that's just modern film technique improving though because there was obviously very little skill assembled for the acting or script-writing. The premise was pretty good until they tried to explain the monster, at which point I uttered a few "what the hell"s and fell completely out of the movie.
This was bad, folks. There I was settled down for a quiet Sunday night watching a new horror movie and what did I get for my time. Nothing. The movie left me completely empty. I could have got more out of Zsa Zsa Gabor's autobiography.
I don't recommend this one at all and I actually feel kind of bad about that. They really wanted to make a good movie and just plain failed. I wonder what went wrong. Were they limited in some way that prevented them from achieving their potential, or are they just incapable?

Total Skulls: 20

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise skull
Bad acting skull
Bad dialogue skull
Bad execution skull
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat skull
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer skull
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls skull
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision skull
No one believes only witness skull
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes skull
x years before/later
Flashback sequence skull
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading skull
Blood fountain
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc.
Poor death effect
Excessive gore skull
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots skullskull
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending skull
Unbelievably crappy ending skull
What the hell? skullskull