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A group of teenagers decide to spend the day with Carrie (Carie Keller) at a local
cemetery on the outskirts of town, so Carrie can visit and pay respect to her recently
departed fathers grave. On the way back into town, they somehow get lost in the
back roads within the woods. They decide to play it safe and not waste anymore gas
and pull up outside a house along the road they are on and ask for help, but
unfortunately for them a deformed psychotic killer named Caleb who gets his kicks out
of killing living things, is living in the basement of the house. One by one the group
split up to see if can they can maybe find someone to give them the right directions
back into town, until a horny young couple Jessica (Caitlin Rahsman) and Ben (Joey
Rogers) decide to fool around in the barnyard, they are the first to feel the killers cold
hard steel. Back at the house Carrie is trying to find away to tell Tommy (Mike
Cosgrove) that she is pregnant and she isn't too sure if she wants to have his child.
While Carrie and Tommy are arguing they both are unaware what exactly is happening
to their friends in the house, until Rachael (Beth Harper) comes flying through the
kitchen window, and the masked killer begins to hunt down the two remaining
teenagers. Will they find help? Can Carrie and Tommy survive or will Caleb viscously
mutilate and torture them both to death? You'll have to find out for yourself....
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Independent filmmaker Robert Elkins who is the founder of Eyesore Productions, brings
us a some what interesting but not so new little indie slasher flick called Backwoods. I
wasn't quiet sure what to think of this film at the beginning, cause it started off rather
slow and then built up to a awesome suspenseful ending. To some Backwoods is like
showing a little insight of the legend camp slasher Jason Voorhees, and showing us
what Jason would of been like after he seen his mother getting decapitated by a camp
counselor on the lake when he was in his teenager years and throwing him into a Texas
Chainsaw Massacre environment to basically kill any poor son of a bitch who rocks up
to the old abandon house. Sounds cool right? Well its was definitely a good story, but
as like all indie films they tend to have cut-throat special effects and unknown actors
who make do with what they have to offer.
For me the acting was I guess borderline. I think I was more pissed about the boom mic
guy not keeping the mic over the actor who was talking, one second the audio was
fine and clear as, and then the next the other actor talks and you are flat out hearing
what the hell they had to say. I found myself turning up and down the speakers a
number of times, but not to the point where it pissed me right off and I wanted to
turn off the movie, it was bearable to watch and listen too. Though all the cast and
especially actress Carie Keller who played Carrie played a solid role in Backwoods, and
not to mention the care taker was fucking funny as hell to watch and listen to
throughout the film.
The special effects were all done by director Robert Elkins; and you can definitely feel
and see the low budget to the very end in Backwoods, but what I love about indie
cinema are the ways of capturing the visual effects and shooting death scenes. Robert
certainly did a outstanding job with what he had to work with, and low angles shots
make a horror film much more realistic and spooky. The scene that I have to say was
fucking priceless, was when you got to see Caleb as a baby, it brought back memories
of films like Its Alive and the mall baby in the Dawn of the Dead remake.
Also the score was pretty terrible at times, I thought my mobile was going off while
watching this film, and one last thing that I have to mention is the sound effects on the
drunken Sherriff (Jerry E. Long) firing his gun at a empty bottle within the woods,
FUCK the thing sounded like a canon on a battleship going off.
But all in all, Backwoods is a cheesy low budget slasher flick that is not to be taken to
heart, and is very enjoyable to mellow out to one day. If you are a huge fan of the
potato sack Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series, well you are going to get a
huge kick out of this film. So if you love indie cinema, low budget special effects,
unknown actors giving it their best while a deformed psychotic killer is on a killing
rampage, well look no further, this is the film you want to buy right now.
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