What do we have here? Another movie trying to shock us with insane bastardised Christians who think the phrase "thou shalt not take the lords name in vain." is the way into heaven, whereas the phrase "thou shalt not kill" is just symbolic and not worth following.
The story is about a couple from the city who decide a fun way to spend the weekend would be to go hiking in hickville U.S.A., but even the movie "Deliverance" couldn't have prepared them for what was about to take place... for 2 reasons.... 1. Rape is anti Christian and would prevent the thousands of teenagers from seeing this movie, thus costing the producer millions as a result... and 2. Who the hell would have ever expected a national park to be busier than the park nearest your house? Seriously I've been hiking many times myself in park and mountain trails sometimes within city limits and I would seldom come across other hikers much less 3 separate groups of them as in the movie, who show up again and AGAIN on the same hiking trail, led alone the fact that all of them are either some brand of psycho or lowlife in general. To clarify one thing, Timber Falls is not a town but merely an area off a hiking trail. But don't worry, this was all PLANNED if that's supposed to be an asset in movies these days. Yes, all of them are plot devices who appear again later just HAPPENING to run into the 2 protagonists once more. "oops i accidentally stepped in a bear trap while walking backwards, but thankfully the same crazy old lady i met earlier was able to find me 10 seconds later and bring me back to her house" For example what would have made more sense rather than each character making their little introductions along the trail before being part of the story is if they appeared just ONCE rather than reappearing. Also The dialogue isn't exactly fantastic and it seems so much like the actors just coming on screen to say "Hello, I will be playing the old lady" "hello, i will be playing the cop" and at 100 minutes running time it's not like they needed any filler, though I will say that the actors put out an honest good effort. There's not much else to say other than the whole movie is so contrived and unrealistic.
Other than that, if while watching the movie you ever had any doubts as to whether it was a total piece of junk or not, the twist in the end is likely to affirm your initial impulse which would have been to throw it out the window and never see it again. All I will say about that, is imagine setting someone on fire with a Molotov cocktail in the rain, in a place hundreds of miles away from your house, who was a monstrous burn victim in the first place and then having that same person who apparently burned to death as a result, end up somehow tracking you down. Also if you threw a Molotov cocktail on someone who happened to be wearing a trenchcoat, and it happened to shatter, only the area touched by the alcohol would be set on fire initially and it wouldn't be able to envelop his entire body within seconds; Literally all he would have to do is casually take his coat off... plus it was raining. So much for their intended irony of "he was set on fire... AGAIN"
I personally found a movie like "Deliverance", which isn't even considered a horror movie by most, much more terrifying in its harsh realism rather than this fake attempt at horror. I've officially lost all faith in the horror genre, since 90% of horror films are like this; contrived and completely unrealistic, and ultimately it is hard to be scared or shocked by what you can't accept as at least halfway plausible.
The story is about a couple from the city who decide a fun way to spend the weekend would be to go hiking in hickville U.S.A., but even the movie "Deliverance" couldn't have prepared them for what was about to take place... for 2 reasons.... 1. Rape is anti Christian and would prevent the thousands of teenagers from seeing this movie, thus costing the producer millions as a result... and 2. Who the hell would have ever expected a national park to be busier than the park nearest your house? Seriously I've been hiking many times myself in park and mountain trails sometimes within city limits and I would seldom come across other hikers much less 3 separate groups of them as in the movie, who show up again and AGAIN on the same hiking trail, led alone the fact that all of them are either some brand of psycho or lowlife in general. To clarify one thing, Timber Falls is not a town but merely an area off a hiking trail. But don't worry, this was all PLANNED if that's supposed to be an asset in movies these days. Yes, all of them are plot devices who appear again later just HAPPENING to run into the 2 protagonists once more. "oops i accidentally stepped in a bear trap while walking backwards, but thankfully the same crazy old lady i met earlier was able to find me 10 seconds later and bring me back to her house" For example what would have made more sense rather than each character making their little introductions along the trail before being part of the story is if they appeared just ONCE rather than reappearing. Also The dialogue isn't exactly fantastic and it seems so much like the actors just coming on screen to say "Hello, I will be playing the old lady" "hello, i will be playing the cop" and at 100 minutes running time it's not like they needed any filler, though I will say that the actors put out an honest good effort. There's not much else to say other than the whole movie is so contrived and unrealistic.
Other than that, if while watching the movie you ever had any doubts as to whether it was a total piece of junk or not, the twist in the end is likely to affirm your initial impulse which would have been to throw it out the window and never see it again. All I will say about that, is imagine setting someone on fire with a Molotov cocktail in the rain, in a place hundreds of miles away from your house, who was a monstrous burn victim in the first place and then having that same person who apparently burned to death as a result, end up somehow tracking you down. Also if you threw a Molotov cocktail on someone who happened to be wearing a trenchcoat, and it happened to shatter, only the area touched by the alcohol would be set on fire initially and it wouldn't be able to envelop his entire body within seconds; Literally all he would have to do is casually take his coat off... plus it was raining. So much for their intended irony of "he was set on fire... AGAIN"
I personally found a movie like "Deliverance", which isn't even considered a horror movie by most, much more terrifying in its harsh realism rather than this fake attempt at horror. I've officially lost all faith in the horror genre, since 90% of horror films are like this; contrived and completely unrealistic, and ultimately it is hard to be scared or shocked by what you can't accept as at least halfway plausible.