[Timber Falls]
Plot:Involves a group of backpackers who while trekking through the mountains...encounter a group of maniacal locals looking to extend their bloodline through their own twisted and nefarious methods.

Cast: Brianna Brown, Josh Randall, Nick Searcy, Beth Broderick.

My Thoughts:Saw it already...like 500 times!

Review:"Timber Falls" is another horror film in a long line of horror films where some city dwellers looking to take in the scenery and fresh air of the countryside, end up running across some very unstable and psychotic redneck types. Like I said...I've seen this before, "Devil's Prey", "House of 1000 Corpses", "Wrong Turn", "Deliverance", "The Headless Horseman", and almost every "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" movie...the list of killer hick genre horror flicks runs longer than any kids christmas list. "Timber Falls" is just another title to add to that list, although it's not as bad as advertised. The film follows a couple who head up to the mountains of West Virginia for a hiking expedition. Of course it isn't long before they are being watched, and stalked by unseen enemies.

Pretty soon, the lead dudes gal vanishes, leaving behind her lockett. He knows somethings up, so he takes off into the woods to search for her, first confronting a group of good ole' boys he and his gal pal ran into earlier. After getting no info from them, he heads off to keep searching for his girl, only to get snared by the ever-so-cliche beartrap. It's funny how beartraps always seem to make a cameo in these sorts of films. Just once I'd like for a rope trap or a net to be used instead but oh well, I guess asking for originality in films like this is just asking for too much. A local woman named Ida, another one of the mountains weird characters takes lead dude in after his beartrap run in and tends to his wound.

The film pretty much unfolds per usual from here on out, with the helpful or seemingly helpful country folk turning out to be "not so helpful"...if you know what I mean. And will wonders never cease, the gaggle of redneck villains in this film are...religious fanatics! Wow, what an original idea! Fundamentaist christian rednecks who want to kill a city couple because they view them as sinners. I don't care for backwoods types as much as the next city guy, but this plot has been recycled so many times it's pathetic. If there's one good thing that can be said about "Timber Falls"...it's that the looney backwoods folks plans run less towards sadistic torture, and more towards maternal ideals.

Which in itself is sick, twisted, and disgusting, but atleast it breaks the monotony of most killer redneck films where the deformed country hillbillies are just looking to slice, dice, and dispose of their city bretheren. "Timber Falls" does contain good performances by it's female and male leads, which does give the viewer something to root for throughout the movie, hoping that this nice and good-looking couple escape the clutches of their evil insane captors. Blood and gore isn't used sparingly here either, although the movie doesn't pour it on thick with any dripping wet red goo until it's third act. But if you're as sick to death of this genre or sub-genre as I am, it's best to stay away from this movie.

"Timber Falls" brings the killer backwoods folk sub-genre back for what seems like a thousandth time, and doesn't add anything new to it. Instead, it focuses on the old, and just plays it up violently with a few slight new tweaks here and there. But in reality, if you've seen "Wrong Turn" and films like it, you'll probably be able to predict every waking moment of "Timber Falls" from the moment the backwoods psychos make off with lead dudes smoking hot girlfriend. That predictability factor makes the film just another bloody backwoods romp, and really nothing original or intriguing to watch.

While "Timber Falls" does have it's share of intriguing and interesting moments, grisly death scenes, and an abvoe average performance by Beth Broderick...there's just not enough present here to set it apart from many other horror movies of it's ilk.

Positives:Good acting by Broderick, and the lead male and female. A few good deaths or two.

Negatives:The story is way too cliche and recycled, and the ending is pathetic.

Overall:Not a bad movie if you're a fan of the backwoods kook sub-genre and just love horror films were rednecks run wild. If you tire of this genre however, best to avoid "TF".





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