the audience applauded

It is a performances centric movie

Boring

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Some slashers take their time getting to the first kill. Others start James Bond style, with a kill or two at the beginning before settling into the formula. Don't Go in the Woods starts with murder and never stops. There are characters you're supposed to get behind. But mostly, there are just random people who are killed in increasingly horrific ways while comedic synthesizer music bleets and boops and at times, goes silent. It's a crude, brutal and at times, hilarious film. It also feels like it was made by either amateurs or maniacs. Maybe both.There is one rule in this movie: Don't go in the woods. Every single person that dies ignores this rule, so they are to blame for whatever happens next.A woman screams and is killed.A bird watcher watches birds and is killed.Four friends - Peter, Joanne, Ingrid and Craig - are traveling through the woods.A tourist is thrown over a waterfall, landing near our heroes having a splash fight (they don't notice). Our intrepid foursome set up camp for the evening as two honeymooners in an RV are killed, followed by an artist being offed and her daughter kidnapped.Of note here - it seems like the couples should be boy/girl, but through a combination of outfits and hairstyles, it is truly up to you to determine the non-binary combinations that they may be.Two more campers get killed, then Peter watches while a fisherman is slaughtered, finally revealing the antagonist, who is a wild man covered in rags and fur with a big spear, known only as Maniac in the credits. He runs to warn his friends, but the Maniac follows and kills Craig with a spear.Peter and Ingrid finally find the Maniac's cabin, but accidentally stab a hitchhiker they believe is the killer. Our two heroes - minus the missing Joanne - make it to the hospital where they alert authorities, including the Sheriff (Ken Carter, a career rock 'n roll DJ), who might as well be the cousin of Troll 2's Sheriff Gene Freak.Peter feels guilty about leaving Joanne behind. As for her, she wanders into the Maniac's house and is killed via multiple machete strikes. The killer doesn't stop, beheading a man in a wheelchair, before Peter and Ingrid find him and go full on crazy, stabbing him numerous times while an entire crowd of lawmen watches.Meanwhile, that kidnapped baby everyone forgot about? She's up in the woods with an axe, all alone and ready to grow up to be the next Maniac.Whew. This movie is a whirlwind of dubbed dialogue, bright red ketchup made with BBQ sauce and red food coloring, all shot on $400 worth of film stock (look for light bleeding through at numerous times).Director James Bryan is a jack of all trades, having worked as an editor, a production manager, a post-production supervisor, a director of photography, a production assistant and more. He even filmed the pick-up shots for Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural! Plus, his resume includes films as diverse as The Executioner, Part II and sex films like Sex Aliens and The Hottest Show in Town.Should you watch it? It depends. Are you willing to endure some of the worst dialogue and outfits in the history of film - all non-ironically created, mind you - and enjoy a story that makes no logical sense? Then yes.

Don't Go Into The Woods is not a good movie for several reasons. Bad acting, story, dialogue, scenery, camera work, sound. These are all obvious right away. The kills/gore aren't stylish enough or at the very least interesting enough to save this movie. There are two that are pretty good but that's it.They decided instead of concentrating on the main campers, they would intermittently sprinkle in scenes of other campers being murdered. It's incoherent. By the time anyone survives you barley remember who they were to care. Some of the awful dialogue can be unintentionally funny or grating depending on your preference. One thing that stood out was the nonsense. For instance, camper is by himself under an overhang. Fisherman comes by and spots him. But the wildman is standing above the camper where he can't see him. The wildman swings a bear trap and hits the fisherman in the face. Camper watches in shock but doesn't yell out. So you think "Oh, this guy will spot the crazy man, keep quiet and then run back and warn his friends". Instead as soon as he sees the wildman, he yells like a girl and runs off. Why didn't he react right away? Could have set up a nice scene where the camper sneaks off to warn his friends. Then right be for he reaches them surprise kill by the wildman. The movie does this 4 or 5 times. Girl hears friend screaming 2 separate occasions, doesn't react, thinks it's only friends horsing around. Friend screams a third and she comes running.Movie seems to only take a place in one day but it doesn't match the story. Guy and girl survive. They are in the hospital. Guy feels guilt for leaving other girl back in the woods. He's able to run from the hospital back to the woods before the cops leave the cafeteria. But before, when they broke into the cabin, the guy said, "We are going to need food if we're gonna survive". Later the girl is seen licking a plate as if starving. Really? In running distance from a hospital? Also, no rhyme or reason to the killing. They can't be that deep in the woods (Hospital) and there were at least 5 other people died in that vicinity in the same time span. Should have been called don't go 50 ft into the woods. The posse is waiting on a helicopter to search the woods. Meanwhile the camper has beating them back on foot. The movie takes a scene and then just throws logic out the window. It'a actually impressive.

Do you really need a plot? You should know what to expect from the titleI've strayed away from this movie for many years due to all the bad reviews. I love cheesy slashers, especially stuff from the 80's, so I figured what the hell? It turned out to be a huge mistake. This wasn't cheesy in a so bad it's good way, it was just unbearably bad. It is excruciatingly amateurish in every way possible with many plot holes. I'm not even gonna mention any of the actors, what's the point? Everybody is horrible. There is gore in this movie, but it is so cheap that it negates the impact. I wouldn't go in these woods if I were youDUD

A pair of young campers decide to have a nice weekend with nature. Too bad for them (and others) that a deranged killer lives in the woods, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out what he wants to do. Will any of them make it out alive. Will the local police save the day? Will you find a reason to care? Done during the slasher craze of the 80's, "Don't Go in the Woods" is bad in many ways. There are poorly done attempts at humor, the gore is about as convincing as paper machete, the narrative is as confusing as it gets, we get constant useless shots of the natural world, and the dialog is dubbed in-and terrible.At least the weird electronic score by H. Kingsley Thurher is fun in a slasher movie electronic score way, and a few of the clichés (like the guy warning the kids) are dumb fun. As it stands though, "Don't Go in the Woods", while not the worst backwoods/kids going camping slasher, is still bad on all accounts.