Backwoods Bloodbath

This film won The Best Horror Feature Award at the New York Independent Film Festival, so I was looking forward to watching this movie with some anticipation.

I definitely had a shock and ended up horrified that I wasted 90 minutes of my life on this trash that I will never regain.

The premise of the movie is mundane, six ex-collage students end up going to a cabin in the” Blackwoods” after meeting up at a funeral of one of their mutual friends. They meet the usual local rednecks and are told about a mysterious monster (The Black Hodag) that has re-emerged after 50 years to hunt humans for food, ho-hum!

Well, all that could be forgiven if the atmosphere, script and acting came together to create suspense, intrigue and believable characters. This film failed on all points. To say the acting was wooden would be an insult to all the good uses a plank of pine could be used for. The script could have been written by the preverbal infinite amount of monkeys although a small group of about twenty would have been enough in as many years to write this masterpiece and the characters had all the believability of a hamster becoming the Prime Minister at the next General Election. The hamster gets my vote but this film does not. Even the die-hard lovers of low budget B-Movie horrors would find great difficulty in finding anything about this movie redeemable including the “twist”, which is very weak.

I give this film a wholehearted 1 out of 10.