Black Creek

The filmmakers were trying, and did a fairly ok job with little money and skills. the story isn't much, but so what? the one real bummer here is the casting agent should be tarred and feathered. the cast (with the exception of the sheriff) were abysmal.

really, save your money/time and skip it. I'd give it an A if it was a first effort from a college film class. but since it's not? it gets a D.

So sat down with this thinking it was a hidden gem. What I saw was terrible acting. It was like they didn't know their lines and stood there until they remebered their lines. It was awful I didn't care for the characters I just kept watching to see the mess of this film.

The girl with the flowers across her forehead was stupid she was one of the worse actresses out of the worse. Hold on the the girls were terrible lol. While watching her I wanted to place that flower band on her head not her forehead looking like a drippy bimbo.

Mr. Fake lip piercing was awful was he meant to be a rebel? And look ard??

Please do not waste your time on this erm mess.

The ending oh my just why? Why did I watch it? I could of done better. Anyways if you want an awful film go ahead and waste your time you will never get back.

Garbage acting, directing and screenplay.

No redeeming features at all.

A brother and sister take the ashes of their deceased father to the family cabin in the sticks of central Wisconsin, accompanied by four friends. The problem is, there have been some recent deaths in the area, which may be linked to a massacre of Indians in generations past.

"Black Creek" (2017) is a cabin-in-the-woods Indie by writer/director James Crow. While it's listed as costing $3 million, the non-actors and dubious acting make it seem like micro-budget horror in the manner of "Backwoods Bloodbath: Curse of the Black Hodag" (2007), also shot in Wisconsin. Thankfully, the flick delivers the goods for the cabin-in-the-woods genre in practically every other area.

In other words, if you can roll with the questionable actors/acting, it entertains for what it is, a slasher in the wilderness. The story is compelling enough with an antagonist reminiscent of Proteus from Uncanny X-Men 125-128 (1979). In the second half, the effects of how the entity transfers is well-done and creepy.

Also, the flick scores well on the female front with standouts Leah Patrick (Jenna) and Rachel Vedder (Rachel), both blondes.

In addition, there's a superlative track that runs during the credits, "Walked Up To The Devil," by Hale and the Homos, written by Lance Wendlandt.

While this is superior to "Backwoods Bloodbath," it's not quite on the level of another micro-budget slasher shot in Wisconsin, "Blood Harvest" (1987). The actors and acting are better in that one. Obviously, you have to have a taste for spare change flicks to appreciate any of 'em.

The movie runs 1 hours, 20 minutes, and was shot in Eau Claire County and Osseo in the heart of Wisconsin. It has been reported that the bar sequence was done in Black Creek, which is a three-hour drive east of there.

GRADE: C.

I'm from WI and vacation to the north woods. Was hoping this would be something to cool (because let's face it, WI isn't usually the setting for a movie). 5 minutes in I almost turned it off because of the acting alone. It reminded me of the acting in "commercials" we made for a class in high school. I finished it for the benefit of the doubt but holy Christ was it bad. I do appreciate they actually used a bar from Black Creek that I've been to in one of the scenes, but that's about the only thing cool. In one scene they looked at a map and didn't even use an actual map of Wisconsin. Save yourself the hour and a half.