I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
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... View MoreAll the major clichés of the genre seem to get wound up in this movie. A young couple go camping in the mountains of West Virginia and end up in the clutches of a murderous local backwoods (and somewhat backwards) family. How original can this be? Well, the answer is not very. About the only part of the standard cliché that was left out was cannibalism! It's not that the movie was a waste. It actually had quite an eye- catching opening, and the performances were surprisingly good (a judgment which may admittedly be more a factor of my own low expectations than anything.) For a while there's also a pretty fair level of suspense, and good use of the setting.But the good is outweighed by more problematic aspects to the story. My first question revolved around why this couple even got into this situation. They were warned to stay off all but two trails. Then, when they first ran into trouble on the trail they chose (not one of the two,) why continue on. After an encounter with that first group of backwoods thugs, I think I'd have gotten out of there as fast as I could. The movie ends up going for one of the unfortunate choice to make the backwoods killer family a bunch of religious wackos, for no truly obvious reason that I could see, but crosses certainly abound in this. The movie gets increasing and graphically gory as it moves along, and some of the gore near the end comes across as silly rather than believable. It all culminated in an admittedly unexpected but also completely inexplicable (and somewhat nonsensical) very last shot before the credits begin to roll.Granted that there are some good things involved with this, but they can't save an unoriginal, cliché-ridden piece of work.
... View MoreFrom day one in the slasher genre we have learned two things, never trust a stranger and never go wandering into the woods without knowing the area. But still people aren't listening and that's what happening in this flick. Starts of pretty well, some nice CGI, not to much and couldn't be done in another way. Ones we see the start of the new story, we learn to know the characters, believable. Then suddenly the movie changes a bit into, been there seen it but didn't bought the T shirt. A stranger appears and tells them not to do the usually hiking but follow Timber Falls. You can see it coming a long way, we will meet her again. Even the trooper in the woods, you see it coming. No surprises are scary parts so far but again, the movie goes a bit further into red stuff and gory stuff, still watchable for the squeamish. At the end, the movie worked but the ending was typical predictable and we have seen so many in this style, Wrong Turn and that kind of horrors. If you are going to have an evening with horror friends start off with this one, you will be in the mood for the real stuff.
... View More"Timber Falls" (2007) would not be a bad movie had the director not decided to fancy up the last part and especially chosen an ineffably stupid end. Since many people have criticized that the basic motive of the movie is known, let us investigate a bit.In "Timber Falls" as well as in related horror movies, two persons, mostly a young man and his girlfriend, end up in a forest, may it be because of vacation, by accident amidst of a road, by a fraternity prank or whatever. In the forest, they meet either human or supra-natural beings mostly practicing killings. The couple is caught and, after a usually longer period of torture which fills almost the whole movies, they succeed in escaping. Only is the past 2 or 3 years, the following movies (a very short selection) follow this motive with only little variation: The Lodge (2007), Dead of Winter (2007), Wind Chill (2007), Scarce (2008), "The Last House on the Left" (2009), the letter combining the "forest"-motive with the also recently very wide-spread "lake"-motive on or out of which corpses, with or without supra-natural strength, are appearing.From the history of horror, especially in the USA, this motive is salient, since the gigantic forests of the New World are not populated by Erl Kings, Libussas, Elfs and other ghosts like the woods in the Old World are. The forests of the New World are rather conspicuous National Parks with well-defined clean streets, constant bivouacking control, selected fire-places, fenced-in forbidden areas and so on. There are no secrets from thousands of years ago, because no Celts, no Romans, no Mesopotamians etc. have chosen these former rain-forests for their dwellings or pavemented war-roads through it which are still governed by their ghosts living under the ruins. So, where does this recently upcoming motive of the "haunted" forests, lakes, mountains come from? I would say, there are three sources: The first source is the one from which Stephen Kings obtains his whole material for his novels, the legends from the early settlers of New England which have been brought over centuries ago and may have survived, partly mixed with local Indian legends, up to the present. The second source is the spreading of typical European horror motives in mostly German horror movies since the Fifties. One good candidate for inspiration of horror in the New World is "It Happened on Broad Daylight" (1958) with Gert Fröbe, in which young girls are killed in a dark forest by an evil "wizzard". The third source, which I cannot prove, but am convinced about its existence, is the re-settlement of (traditional or invented) New England-horror motives in the rest of the USA, and may it be for purely practical sake of film making: Everybody who lives in that area, will tell down to his grand-children that according to that movie, this or that happened in those forests. So, legends arise, and, frankly, not even much different from those of former times, with the only distinction that these were not transported by movies but solely by everyday talking.
... View MoreWhat is it about West Virginia? A young couple decides to go hiking in the mountains there, and end up being imprisoned by a deranged hillbilly clan looking to have a baby as their inbred nature has caused the woman in the group to miscarry numerous times. This STV takes its cues from WRONG TURN, Texas CHAINSAW and HILLS HAVE EYES. At best, it is a time killer. The special effects are nothing to write home about, and the bloodletting is kept to a minimum. There is one good torture scene. Better acting than one might have expected, too, from Nick Searcy as the clan's patriarch and Josh Randall as the hero. Both are familiar TV faces. Like so many of these films, it was shot in eastern Europe, although unlike the recent WRONG TURN 3, nothing about the film betrays this. Unless you count some over-the-top backwoods accents.
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