Three guys wanna get rich quick to be able to afford a fancy lifestyle in California. So they kidnapp two rich girls and brings them to a secluded cabin deep into the woods. Soon they realize that there's something out there in the woods, killing off everyone it comes in touch with. Now it's not all about the girls anymore as the three men also has to fight for their lives.
Are you up for some turkey? Well if you are, here's more than enough to go around. Christ, I can't believe I actually sat through the whole thing as all it gave me was a big headache. I like independent films and used to watch a lot long ago, and it's always interesting to see new ones and what people have been trying to create. Unfortunately a lot of them has a tendency to suck, although this was brutal. I quite recently saw the movie Joshua which was a brilliant independent film and that made me wanna check out some more, but starting off with Woods of Evil wasn't a very good idea.
The title couldn't be less inventive and I kinda figured that the acting would be so-so, but still though it would might have a few things to offer. Too bad it didn't. When it comes to these types of movies I couldn't really care less about the actual camera-work or stuff like that. It's not easy to make a movie and of course it's way harder on a low-budget, but still every movie must have something, just some little thing that makes it ok, otherwise what's the point?
Woods of Evil is a slasher movie with not too much actual slashing going on. Problem with this flick was that it had nothing going for it. I mean I can put up with watching some bad acting if that would give me serious amounts of gore, or maybe the story could have an interesting twist or whatever, just give me something. Unfortunately the story here couldn't be any lamer. Three thugs wants to get rich quick and kidnapp two girls that has rich parents in order to get some ransom money. They bring the girls to a cabin in the woods, and the woods being inhabited by a fat killer. That's it and there's nothing more to it.
Almost every time we get a kill, you first see the killer watching some person, then you see that person looking afraid/screaming/whatever, cut, and then there's the person laying dead on the ground with some blood on its face/body. If the movie would've just had some nice slasher scenes, then at least that would've been something, but for being a slasher it's incredibly lame. There's one impalement but it doesn't look that good either.
So the story has nothing to it, the kills are lame and the gore is non-existant. The acting, oh I feel like I've just been complaining here for some time now and I'm kinda sick of complaining so I'll keep it short. The acting is absolutely terrible, if you think acting a la Friday the 13th is bad, well then you've seen nothing yet. Conrad Glover, the guy who wrote and directed the movie also stars as one of the three thugs and he's the one doing the best job when it comes to the male cast. I thought the two kidnapped girls did quite ok as well, until we have 5-10 minutes left of the movie or so. Then they run around in the forest just screaming like crazy, and I actually had to click on the mute button since it was just too irritating to listen to.
It was hard to sit through and it had nothing to offer. I can't actually think of one single thing why this would be worth watching. Too bad, and better luck next time.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Conrad Glover
WRITING CREDITS: Conrad Glover
GENRE: Horror, Slasher
CAST: Raine Brown, Conrad Glover, Jaime Velez
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 85 min
RATING: 1/10
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