I liked Saxon's headline...If Timber Falls in a Cinema..nice.Timber Falls was way over budgeted as a film and the box office comparison to budget reveals all. $2.5 million to make. $600K at Box Office. Loser.The film was about $2 million over budget in the first place. P2 was much more exciting and it took place in a parking garage! Wrong Turn was also far superior.Instead Giglio took out a video camera into Romania. He should have made this for $500,000, easy.Yawn ! oh, excuse me...couple goes hiking meets crazy demented couple in the boonies. Hey, does that sound original or what?Great line...after Sheryl is prancing around in bra and panties, 3 locals show up to taunt them. Then she says, "throw away your bullets". Movie should have ended there with Mike giving Sheryl to the local hunters and going to fish and hunt with them later as he was obviously dating a dimwit.So the sweet couple encounter some local crazed Christian couple, a goofy inbred, local hunters, all were really good actors, too bad such a lame script to practice their acting chops.Skip this flick and go hiking in the woods instead. You never know who you will meet.

Timber Falls starts as loving couple Mike Warren (Josh Randall) & Cheryl James (Brianna Brown) arrive at Lake Kumbrabow State Park near West Virginia to go hiking for a couple a days, local Park rangers advise them to stick to patrolled paths but Mike & Sheryl decide to hike to Timber Falls after a woman named Ida (Beth Broderick) says the scenery is better. Mike & Sheryl set up camp & the following morning Mike wakes up to find Sheryl has disappeared, after being caught in a bear trap Mike is rescued by Ida & she tends to his wounds at her house. Worried for Sheryl Mike insists that Ida call for help but she doesn't & Mike becomes suspicious, Mike discovers that Ida is being held by a deformed freak in Ida's basement & that Ida & her husband Clyde (Nick Searcy) have a twisted plan for Mike & Sheryl...Co-written & directed by Tony Giglio this backwoods brutality horror thriller is watchable enough for it's type but it's not something that I would call great, a mixture of classic films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) & Wrong Turn (2003) without really adding anything new or particularly memorable. The script is strictly routine in everything it does, the two big city civilized victims who take a wrong turn & make some bad decisions after which they end up at the mercy of inbred & or deformed Redneck or Hillbilly psycho's who torture them & abuse them for the remained of the film until they manage to turn the tables although here in Timber falls there's an awful twist ending in which the deformed mutant ends up at Mike & Sheryl's house over a year after he was supposedly killed. The body count is fairly low, a woman jumps to death off a cliff during the opening sequence but then no-one gets killed until the last fifteen minutes & as such Timber Falls often doesn't feel like a ten slasher but that's exactly what it is only without the large body-count. There are some glaring moments of stupidity too, why does Sheryl wait so long to admit she's already pregnant? Given the choice between being brutally tortured & having sex with your girlfriend most people would surely choose to have sex? So why then does Mike refuse & let himself & Sheryl be tortured for so long? It just doesn't sit well with me. The psycho's here are religious nuts & once again the whole idea of these deeply religious people torturing & killing people just seems contradictory, the deformed psycho Deacon is never more than an inferior Leatherface rip-off which his arsenal of rusty blades. knives & weapons. Then there's the infamous head scratching scene in which after being threatened & robbed by three Hillbillies the couple actually carry on hiking & Sheryl amazingly makes Mike throw all the bullets from his gun away.To it's credit Timber Falls is well made & a pretty glossy looking film, the photography & lighting are slick, there's no CGI computer crap just good old fashion make-up effects & there's a definite backwoods feel although it's maybe a little bright at times. The gore levels are alright but maybe because Mike & Sheryl are held captive for so long you think you see more than you actually do, a woman has long metal nails through her hands which she then rips out, a man is whipped, a little finger is cut off, people are beaten, a guy gets an axe in the head, someone is decapitated, people are shot, someone gets a knife in the neck & there's a fair amount of blood splatter too. Not the goriest film out there but still quite brutal at times I suppose.With a supposed budget of about $2,600,000 this was set in Virginia but actually filmed in Bucharest in Romania. The acting is alright, the two leads were cast for their looks while the two main psychos are pretty good.Timber Falls is a competent backwoods horror thriller that is well made, moves along at a decent pace & has a few nice torture scenes but a silly script that defies logic & common sense at times & a lack of originality prevent it from being anything more than merely watchable if there's nothing better to watch.

Okay, you are a budding young actor, just waiting for your 'big break'. You have been for the audition, done the screen test and - woohoo! - you have the role!!Shame that 'big break' was in one of the most unintentionally hilarious films of the past ten years. If you have *any* knowledge of films and a sense of humour more in tune with 'Spinal Tap'; 'Sean of the Dead' or 'The Office' say, then this is for you. You will not be able to look away, although you know you should.As mentioned by several of the reviewers here, narratives and scenes are 'borrowed' from other films with a loud 'Kerclunk' (Yes I know it isn't a word, but it is the feeling you get). Everything is SPELLED OUT for you (example: the classic moment where one of the loony yokels explains that the male 'camper' - not a happy camper at all - must 'atone' for his sin of copulating with his girlfriend....). Suggestion: Host a 'Timber Falls' party - award a prize at the end for the person who has listed the most clichés and stolen scenes. A copy of 'Deliverance' maybe. There are several scenes here which are so funny (and I won't spoil it for you....) that the entire cast should be awarded special commendations for managing not to laugh . Oh, if only the makers of such weak attempts at humour like the 'Scary Movie' franchise could have been this witty. A Turkey? Yes sure, but if you share my sense of humour you will love it. A comic gem.

My comment towards this movie is that it was plain OBVIOUS! n a middle class film. I have great taste when it comes to horror movies but this was a huge mistake. I mean let me put it like this y does it always HAVE TO HAVE A SEX SCENE! N Y DO THE HEROES SURVIVE OR EVEN THE VILLAIN I MEAN THE HERO GOT BEAT UP PRETTY BAD N THE AMOUNT OF BLOOD HE SHED WAS ENOUGH TO GIVE TO THE NHS! They were interrupted the 1st time while having sex then what made it that certain that they weren't going to again was the girl that horny that she didn't learn the 1st time. The only bit I LOVED was the torture n the surprise of a 8 week pregnancy even doe they could have twisted things around by making either the hero die at the end or the girl only survives or they both die and the baby's born. There are so many lame scenes n there's simply no twist i would prefer watching resident evil 1,2,3,4, misery, or better yet THE REEKER now that's a film u must c. So all u horror fanatics who love a good story don't watch this movie and make the same mistake i did watch something else like Friday the 13th that will really blow your mind this is a film for those who love a good fairy tale but u could watch it n find out about how much i am right in this category, no hard feelings to those who disagree with me ;) its just not a scary twisted film as i expected