I recently became a fan and member of Netflix. If nothing else this has given me the joy of a host of B-Movie horror/slasher flicks for me to watch without spending a fortune. I'm a slasher flick fiend and I love a good or even bad horror flick. Because I watch so many of them I do tend to stumble onto a horror gem. They can be fun, gory, slapstick, even silly sometimes and formulaic but when they have great characters, an interesting story and some true suspense they catch my interest. Timber Falls takes a typical story of the whole weird in-bred family attacking innocent hikers and gives it a really wicked twist and some unique characters. They definitely aren't your usual Texas Chainsaw variety psychos. In several ways though Timber Falls keeps the recipe for slasher flicks the same and there is nothing wrong with that either. The ending for the film is so incredibly typical of many slasher flicks from Friday The 13th, to I Know What You Did Last Summer, and yet for me it was the perfect ending. When the last scene is done and the credits are rolling I'm smiling because it was something I truly enjoyed and fulfilled my love for the horror genre.TV Character actor Josh Randall is the macho hero of the story. He doesn't get a lot of development to his character and yet its enough to firmly substantiate him as the hero. He definitely takes a licking and keeps on kicking throughout the film. In fact he is nothing short of tortured, burnt, stabbed etc and still comes back fighting to save the woman he loves. Lovely and down to earth Brianna Brown plays a terrific scream queen. Her and Randall have great chemistry together which is really important for this film and definitely ups the ante on separating it from other horror flicks. Nick Searcy is terrific as one half of the maniac couple. He doesn't get the same development or scenes as his counterpart but as the deeply religious and determined patriarch he gives a great performance. His scenes with Randall are outstanding. The real scene stealer of the entire film in my opinion is Beth Broderick, yes Aunt Zelda from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She is absolutely outstanding as the demented woman who kidnaps and tortures and is basically the main killer of the film. She is absolutely perfect. Sascha Rosemann fills the necessary void in the film as the brawny and physically damaged killer Deacon. He basically is carbon copied from Leatherface but he still does a decent job although takes a back seat to the other killers which is a good.Director Tony Giglio is fairly new to directing but has already had some decent experience with a film featuring Jason Statham, and having worked on a lot of great films in the past. I think he has a passion for horror and he knows how to spin a story even using a recipe that is perhaps in some peoples' opinions overused. I think as long as you can keep the story original and fresh and keep us entertained it doesn't matter how much of the familiar recipes you use. In fact when it comes to slasher flicks in my opinion if it ain't broke don't fix it and this one uses a lot of the same material from other classic slasher flicks but some solid performances and a really good twist in the story makes this one a must see for horror fans like me. A really good thrill ride that won't disappoint. 8.5/10

All 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.

. . . yet another backwoods, genetically played-out bunch of rapists and murderers. I'd actually had a decent run lately of NOT saying, "Well, there's another 97 minutes of my life I'll never get back"--and, hey, I watch reality TV, people.Where to start? Well, how about at the start, when we know immediately that the gun and phone will both be needed. Could it be any heavier-handed? Well, sure it could. Like naming one of the trails the Donner Trail. Somewhat less so is the reference to Willow Creek Trail (Willow Creek being one of the U.S.'s most influential evangelical megachurches), but combine that with the stranger lady's remarks about wedding rings and things being equal in the eyes of the Lord, and the couple's immediate confession (why, to this total stranger?) that they aren't married, and you have a good idea where this is going.Very shortly, the film becomes, in my mind, unforgivable. It's bad enough that our couple decides a tentless, broad-daylight rut in the woods is a good way to get some rest on the hike, but that Our Hero not only doesn't shoot any or all of the three rubes but obeys his girlfriend's unfathomable insistence that he rid his gun of all the bullets is beyond the pale. I mean, heck, I'm a pacifist, antivivisectionist vegetarian with Mennonite and Jainist tendencies, and I'm pretty sure I'd have shot the weirdos in the kneecaps and got outta Dodge.And then Cheryl--she who originally seemed to have some brights because she insisted on taking the phone--not only feels frisky that night, after the twisted events of the day, but decides to take a solitary nude dip in the lake at dawn? Sh-yeah, right. That's exactly what you'd do if some menacing creep with a gun had been sniffing the crotch of your jeans, I'll bet.Like something else I've heard tell of, this just kept rolling downhill. The cinematic ripoffs proliferated (even ripping off Dusk Till Dawn via Deacon's fantasy), and there wasn't a single shock or chill, although there was plenty of the disgusting. The one thing I will credit it for plotwise is that although it included torture--and I am fed up to here with torture in the genre--there was actually a motive behind it that the bad guys could allow themselves to believe in. (Not that that carries a whole lot of weight for me. The Saw crap tries the same thing, and should utterly fail in the mind of any halfway sane person.) Because of this, the bizarre wedding scene, and the usually reasonable production values, I give it a 2 instead of a 1, although I am sorely tempted to deduct both points on the basis of the last second of the film.One last thing--I'm not only tired of stupid stupid stupid characters and disgusting stuff passing as horror, I'm a little cheesed at religious people so often being depicted as deranged. I could not help, watching this schlock, remembering when my Jewish ex-boyfriend and I went primitive camping in the UP of Michigan some 35 years ago. This was in an era when a LOT of people really did revile you for living together before marriage, and when being a non-Christian American seemed rather rare. We met a born-again Christian and his Catholic wife, who not only did not shame us for our religious views and marital status (which were divulged naturally in the course of conversation) but put up a tarp for us in a rainstorm and then shared their dry firewood and fresh fish with us, sitting up late into the night, talking, drinking coffee, and being kind. I never saw them again--although we did correspond a little that year--but I have never forgotten them and their kindness and acceptance. I wish I'd spent 97 minutes last night trying to find out what had become of them instead.

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