I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Don't Believe the Hype

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Shocking absolutely shocking. What in the hell possessed you to make this film. Seems the writer liked lsd terrible

A bunch of ugly (with the exception of the blonde) non actors go for a fun weekend in the woods, despite warnings from the non actor locals to stay away, apparently there's a maniacal killer called Cyrus up there who doesn't take kindly to visitors! Zero marks for originality, but then that's something us slasher movies fans happily accept. The camerawork, sound, acting & script are all very poor and whilst the special effects look like they've been done by a school kid the body count at least is quite high, and old Cyrus is pretty creepy. There are two types of bad movies - those that are just painful to watch; and those that are so bad they are fun. In my opinion this falls into the latter category. Apparently this has somehow spawned 2 sequels & I shall certainly be looking to check them out.

1. Blonde who can't act her way out of a paper bag and a bad spray on tan? Check.2. Warned to not go in the woods, but they go into the woods anyway? Check.3. Fat plain looking girl with the fat ugly guy? Check.4. Rednecks with folksy sounding names and bad teeth? Check.5. Lifesized clown doll urban legend? Check.6. Everyone getting drunk and acting real stupid? Check.7. Car won't start? Check.Trust me when I say there are more. I feel dumber for having watched this. While this was made for $500, that is no excuse for not knowing how to edit. The music and sound effects blast you out of your seat and the dialogue is really soft. Considering most of the cast and crew are related, I'm sure someone could have helped with the sound editing.The story is one big cliché. Don't go in the woods, there's a killer out there! Oh, stupid rednecks, they're so superstitious and we're hipsters, so we are just going to laugh at all the warnings. Other things are really laughable too. The local store only sells moonshine, not beer and they're drinking it as fast as if it was beer? Yeah. Anyone who has tried moonshine would tell you that people don't act like they're drinking water and to drink the amount these people did would lead to alcohol poisoning and the killer wouldn't have had to have stalked them. If this was reality, the movie would have been about them going into comas and choking to death on their own vomit.The continuity is way off. Hey, it's storming outside. Oh, let's switch to where the killer is stalking someone and it's not even raining, even though it's like 10 feet from the cabin!This is also the most fleet footed killer around. It takes the sheriff hours to get somewhere close, but the killer can walk there in five minutes.The acting. Holy mother of god, the acting. Everyone was awful, but the lead, who appears to be married to the writer/director, was the absolute worst. She recited the lines, but it sounded like she was reading them off cue cards without even understanding what they meant. She really needs to get that deviated septum fixed, too. And to lose that Long Island Psychic hairdo.This was truly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. If the idea was to make the worst horror movie ever, based on every don't go in the woods movie ever, they did a fantastic job. Skip it when you run across it. Unless you want to marvel at how many of them are related. I swear, about the only time I've seen so many people with the same name was the one time I was forced to watch the Duggars.

***SPOILERS*** Going to spend the weekend in the wilds of rural Pennsylvania a group of young people get the surprise of their lives in running in to the the crazed and LSD brain damaged lumberjack Cyrus who's been hunting the woods around "Dark Shade Creek" for the last 40 or so years. It's when the vacationers, Emma Vanessa Paige Chuck Doug & Spank, got to the place that all hell broke loose! Not just for them but all those in the vicinity of "Shade Creek" who in fact warned that they to stay away from it! The usual slasher on the loose movie taking place in the wilds and unaccessible, by cell phone, woods of Pennsylvania has Cyrus, who by then must be well into his 70's, do the kind of job on his more or less helpless and not to bright victims as good as Michael Myers or Jason with hockey mask did in the "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" movies did on theirs. There's the usual and predictable heroic of the hero in the flick who we can spot as soon as he or she appears on the screen. As well as the not so surprising surprise ending but the film hold up and keeps the both tension and horror going for it almost its entire 90 minutes of screen time. That's far more here then you can expect from like wise horror/slasher movies that cost a lot more and are far more well known as "Dark Shade Creek" is.One fact about the movie is how well made it was despite it's microscopic budget of a measly pocket change amount of $500.00! That was just enough to buy a video or camcorder and a couple of DVD disks or video tapes to make it! Yet it's as good if not better then movies of that type that cost millions and had well known actors and actresses in them!