In the WoodsYear: 1998 Director: Lynn Drzick Written by: Lynn Drzick Threat: Devil Dog Weapon of Choice: Teeth Based upon: nothing |
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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 | ||
Bad acting | ||
Bad dialogue | ||
Bad execution | ||
MTV Editing | ||
OTS | ||
Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
Wanton sex | ||
Death associated with sex | ||
Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
Characters forget about threat | ||
Secluded location | ||
Power is cut | ||
Phone lines are cut | ||
Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
Camera is the killer | ||
Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
Victim locks self in with killer | ||
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
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 | ||
No one believes only witness | ||
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
Warning goes unheeded | ||
Music detracts from scene | ||
Death in first five minutes | ||
x years before/later | ||
Flashback sequence | ||
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 | ||
Blood fountain | ||
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
Poor death effect | ||
Excessive gore | ||
No one dies at all | ||
Virgin survives | ||
Geek/Nerd survives | ||
Little kid lamely survives | ||
Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
Unresolved subplots | ||
"It was all a dream" ending | ||
Unbelievably happy ending | ||
Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
What the hell? |