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When Mike (Josh Randal) and his girlfriend Sheryl (Brianna Brown) escape city life and stake their tent in the rugged, wooded mountains of West Virginia, the worst they expect are a few mosquitoes. Suddenly Sheryl vanishes. There is no sign of her. Mike frantically heads off into the woods to find her and stumbles across the secluded cabin of a God-fearing woman who offers to help. The next thing he's out cold and waking up in a dingy cellar. Sheryl lies on the table next to him, gagged with her arms and legs bound to the corners. Candles and crucifix line to the walls around them. A devoted priest stands above them. God has something evil planned...
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Timber Falls is a reasonably entertaining throwback to 1970s/80s exploitation cinema. It tells the story of an American couple, Mike and Sheryl, who leave their busy city lives and go for a weekend camping trip to 'get away from it all'. Soon enough, they run into a family of crazy Christians who want to have a baby, but are incapable... Therefore, you can almost guess what Mike and Sheryl have to go through for the next hour.
Apart from the whole 'crazy Christian' theme, Timber Falls is basically another remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There's the guy with the facial skin disease; the psychotic sheriff; the underground torture scenes etc. This is what Timber Falls suffers from most: Unoriginality. Also, one of the film's main flaws is that it makes us sit through a lengthy 100 minutes of something that, ultimately, isn't very interesting.
That said, Timber Falls is a surprisingly watchable Friday-night horror flick. Director of Chaos -Tony Giglio- is very capable of engaging his audience and making sure we don't get bored. Also, Josh Randall and Brianna Brown each give reasonably impressive performances in playing the main couple. The cover art and the first 5 minutes suggested promise, but Timber Falls falls short of expectations. Watch it if you must, but there are admittedly better choices you could make.
Apart from the whole 'crazy Christian' theme, Timber Falls is basically another remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There's the guy with the facial skin disease; the psychotic sheriff; the underground torture scenes etc. This is what Timber Falls suffers from most: Unoriginality. Also, one of the film's main flaws is that it makes us sit through a lengthy 100 minutes of something that, ultimately, isn't very interesting.
That said, Timber Falls is a surprisingly watchable Friday-night horror flick. Director of Chaos -Tony Giglio- is very capable of engaging his audience and making sure we don't get bored. Also, Josh Randall and Brianna Brown each give reasonably impressive performances in playing the main couple. The cover art and the first 5 minutes suggested promise, but Timber Falls falls short of expectations. Watch it if you must, but there are admittedly better choices you could make.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Yeah, OK, you know this is not going to be the most origional film ever when even it's cover describes it as two other films of it's genre. That said, I've seen a thousand rubbish horror films, this is rubbish, but it's a better class of rubbish. The acting is first rate, apart from the deformed scythe wielding psycho, who was about as scary as one of those cheap rubber Halloween masks for children. It rips off every current torture horror film going, but despite everything against it, it's beautifully shot, and is watchable right up to it's stupid cliched ending. Effort has been put into this film, so it's worth purchasing if you can get it in the bargain bin.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Ignore the cover's absurd recommendation that 'if you like the Hills Have eyes and Wrong Turn 2 you're going to like this!' It's more likely that if you watch this expecting to see a fast, VERY gory horror like those, you'll be bored to tears. It would be more accurate to compare this to 'Vacancy' or 'Captivity'. When the central couple go hiking, they encounter hicks, a deeply Christian local woman, and a friendly sheriff, before setting up camp. But the tranquility doesn't last, and both find themselves fighting to survive in the face of a terrifying ordeal at the hands of very committed and crazy locals.
Josh Randall and Brianna Brown make a likeable and tough central couple, and there are some good makeup effects, but this is largely a tension and suspense film, not a gorefest, and it's good at what it does. The plot is well directed and get's the heart racing many times, and while it feels a shade low budget, it's well made enough to hide this the vast majority of the time. The characters are good, and the evil plot is quite a fun idea instead of the usual schtick.
Fun, well acted and tense.
Josh Randall and Brianna Brown make a likeable and tough central couple, and there are some good makeup effects, but this is largely a tension and suspense film, not a gorefest, and it's good at what it does. The plot is well directed and get's the heart racing many times, and while it feels a shade low budget, it's well made enough to hide this the vast majority of the time. The characters are good, and the evil plot is quite a fun idea instead of the usual schtick.
Fun, well acted and tense.
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Not bad, but not great
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