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The movie opens smartly as a documentary of the ecosystem of the Pacific NW, claiming the area is large and diverse enough to support large predators. WE then see a young boy abducted by a cannibal. Sweet!. We know he is a cannibal because it is in the title of the movie. Bloodwood gets it name from the reddish tree bark appearance.
The movie shifts to a film crew shooting scenes of Nigel (British accent) trying to locate Big Foot. In trying to find Big Foot they come across a feral woman who they capture, but not without the guide getting bit. Those who watch zombie movies will be able to appreciate the implication.
Nigel decides to shift gears and hunt for other feral people in the words. The crew enters the forest the same time as does a flower photographer and 2 hunters. At this point the plot is established and it is just a matter of who lives and who dies...and who gets bit.
I was really impressed for a low budget film. The acting was decent. The dialouge, somewhat amusing. The movie was written, produced, directed, camera man, boom man and starring Joshua Siegel. It is a worthwhile view for those who don't take their horror films too seriously.
Brief nudity.
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I snagged this on a lark while at a store that had deals on their used DVDs. It looked fun enough and wasn't hurting my wallet too much. And it turned out to be so much more than I could ever have hoped for. BLOODWOOD CANNIBALS is a stellar low budget horror film. The filmmakers were obviously influenced by a great deal of prior cinema, and not all within the horror genre. But the repeated pop culture references minus any annoying wink-wink-nudge-nudge to various other films are delivered with finesse, as homages. It's loaded with incredible in-jokes in other words. It also does an amazing thing by combining grisly hick horror with not a nihilistic tone but instead a fun tone. It takes getting used to but it doesn't take long to do so. The cast and crew obviously had a blast on this movie, about the cast and crew of a web program of the paranormal/cryptozoological variety and find a much more down to earth but much more dangerous variety of "wild" life. The fun permeates the atmosphere, seeping out of the TV. The blend of a fun tone (I'm sorry but that's just the right word, "fun") and comical notes with generous gore and a horror story works wonders. The balance of horror, action and comedy is a delicate one, indeed, and a strong wind of unsteady hands in the creative end of things would have brought the whole thing down in pieces. But everything in this movie achieves a perfect proportion with the other bits and the whole. Hillbilly horror aficionados really should do themselves the favor and check this out. For real.Best Deals for Bloodwood Cannibals (2010)
A film crew finds a feral woman in the woods and captures her. Upon her capture she bites on of the crew members. From there the crew takes her to the hospital. At the hospital, the doctors determine the woman gave birth about 6 months ago but the baby probally died since the woman isn't lactating. Nigel (leader of the film crew) decides to find the father of the feral woman's baby. So the crew gets picked off one by one in the woods along with a couple of hunters and a flower photographer. Just when all hope is lost, one of the members of the film crew decides to use his military training to hunt the cannibal hunters...very LAME.At one point the military guy swings some speciality knife at one of the cannibals and removes the cannibal's eye. The leader of the cannibals comes along and picks up his friend's eyeball and shoves it back in the socket. Yep, it is LAME!
The cannibals are biters! Just about everyone gets bitten/eat alive. Then when the cammera pans back all of a sudden the victim's entrails are hanging out of their stomach. Did I mention this movie is LAME.
The growling and grunting got annoying. I get the cannibals are primal; but why does the military crewman grunt too. I suppose he is going primal as well. Also, the military crewman recognizes one of the cannibals from his military training......so apparently, being in the woods causes one to only grunt and growl.
The acting was very BAD. At times it seemed to be just spoken with no emotion behind it at all.
The costumes the cannibals wore were SAD. A group of men/women walking around in jeans with bad head gear on. The lead cannibal wears cut off jeans, no shirt and animal pelts on his head with some tiny bones dangling from it.
I paid $5.75 for this movie and it is in our "Half Price Bookstore box". Once we load up a box of stinkers we drop them off over there for a buck or so. I only hope that if someone feels compelled to see this movie they get it for less than what I paid for it; however, I do NOT recommend this movie.
If you want to see a woodsey cannibal movie I would suggest Wrong Turn...any of the Wrong Turn franchises would be better than this attempt at horror.
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