ridiculous rating

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Don't Go In The Woods is a horror film like others in the early 1980's which appears to rip off some elements of the Friday The 13th films although it fails miserably at doing so.The following review does contain some spoilers throughout!Four campers Peter, Ingrid, Joanne and Craig hike through the woods with the intentions of having a relaxing weekend. Whilst our four main characters are venturing further into the woods an unknown killer is dispatching random people who come into the woods in bloody fashion. Will any of the campers manage to escape the woods alive to civilisation.Don't Go In The Woods does initially have something going for it despite being low budget however the film at times is all over the place and lacks purpose. The killer murders his victims without any motive and to make up for the disappointing effects there is a little comedy here and there.As for the carnage scenes the most memorable scene for me is when one of the female characters discovers the killer's cabin and when he returns she tries to escape through a small window and is slashed to death with a machete. There is also a cringeworthy scene with a couple who are celebrating their honeymoon in a caravan before they are both eliminated.When most of the secondary characters show up some of them have little or no dialogue before they get killed and the ending to the film is very strange involving a minor character who has been abducted. The music at times is not always fitting although the track that is playing during the end credits of the movie is comical.I would rate this film 4 out of 10.

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.

I have a philosophy when it comes to film reviews: of course it's necessary to give a quick plot summary and an opinion, but I also think it's important to contextualize the movie in order to give other people a framework through which to judge the movie for themselves. However, "Don't Go in the Woods" just plain doesn't deserve it. Ten minutes in I was begging it to end but persevered out of what I thought was strong will-power but now realise is masochism. Don't get me wrong, I love low-budget slashers, and I love video nasties, but this movie lacks ANYthing to recommend it. The idea of the Video Nasties list came to be in England in the late-80s when unregulated video releases of certain movies deemed "obscene" and liable to morally corrupt the viewer were stamped upon by the powers that be. And to be sure, some movies on the list really packed a punch whether it be unbridled gore ("The Evil Dead", "The Beyond") or genuinely brutal depictions of violence ("Cannibal Holocaust", "Don't Go in the House")…and the best of them even have quite intriguing political/cultural subtexts etc. But "Don't Go in the Woods" has NONE of this: the plot (if it even qualifies for the word) is just an unconvincing madman (who is like the Wolf Man meets Rambo) cutting people up who we couldn't care less about due to the woeful acting of the cast (all of whom had done nothing before and most went on to do nothing after…probably best). Oh yes, let's not forget the ridiculous sound effects that accompany the killings which themselves lack all imagination (which is what makes slashers watchable after all), all of which has been edited by someone who needs to take their medication. Some people like rubbish movies in a so-bad-it's-good way…but this was just a waste of my time. Avoid like the Black Death, second thoughts…the Black Death would be more entertaining.

Don't Go in the Woods terrified me when I saw it as a 15 year-old. Now, 20 years later, I honestly don't remember why. While the music can be nice and ominous when needed, the acting is beyond terrible. The actors literally appear to be doing nothing more than reciting lines.It really makes me think that if these people, awful actors they were, can be in a movie, anybody can.The only thing that truly surprised me about this movie is that it didn't have any nudity in it. Generally, the worse a horror flick is, the more likelihood of seeing skin. It's what directors probably do when they know the film can't be sold on its own merits.