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Going into this you must be aware that the guy who wrote and did almost everything on it from tea boy to director only cost a total of $175 and review it as such.

It does not have zombie hordes or explosions and mass CGI but has a haunting atmosphere, rather subtle music and a very different way of attacking a movie making project and this is what it is and should be reviewed as such.

So yes, it is more of a movie project and less of a film but it does well with what little he had in his wallet and shows what can be done with a very little amount of cash and has to be congratulated for the end result. There will not be many who will appreciate it in this day and age of mass CGI and multi million pound blockbusters and if you are expecting this then you probably will not appreciate or enjoy this film, but hey give it a try and think try to appreciate what could be produced with $175 in your pocket.

Budget was just about nothing. But it was very high quality. I wouldn't watch it again only because part of the entertainment was anticipating what would happen and why. There's no exciting action because it's about how the protagonist is dealing with what's happening. The only reason why I gave it a 5 was because it was too slow and was not a full story in my opinion. But I could see a fuller and longer revamp (if with the same writer, director etc) being rated much higher.

Slow burn with correct atmosphere and mood for an apocalyptic event, but a Racoon is smarter than the main character. Very good attempt though for $175 budget.

This movie has a premise, but really lacks a fulfilling plot. Lots of missed opportunities. The main character keeps making boneheaded moves, so it's difficult to feel for her. I was hoping it might be a prequel to the Resident Evil franchise, but no dice.

The level of creativity and technical skill required to make a short film this creepy and suspenseful on just $175 is astounding.

RACCOON VALLEY held my interest, made me nervous, and a couple of times, outright scared me -- not with jump scares, but with long, something-really-bad-is-going-to-happen scenes that skillfully ramp up anxiety and pull you to the edge of your seat cushion. Often, but not always, these scenes let you down easy while maintaining an inescapable sense of dread.

The lead actress, Terri Czapkeski, her face an expressionless mask, carries the film in spite of the dramatic limits inherent in her approach. She somehow conveys that her character feels fear without melodramatic mugging for the camera.

The idea of a lone, vulnerable, deaf female protagonist battling mortal danger isn't new. HUSH (2016) skillfully used the same device to drive its plot, but it hasn't been done to death, and hasn't been done exactly this way.

Overall, a very nice effort. On a $175 budget, a masterpiece.

I went into this flick not knowing almost anything about it other than the very basic synopsis: a girl is trapped in an 'outbreak' area.

Well, thats basically the whole movie. We have a deaf, silent protagonist who gets trapped in a quarantine zone because she is deaf. That really is basically the entire plot so there isnt much to 'ruin' per se.

The opening of the film almost put me off as they tried to make the movie look like a bigger budget film but their attempt came off very amateurish

The 'soundtrack' is interesting as a lot of it consists of sounds the woman, that is what she is called, is made up of sounds she remembers from the past before she lost her hearing, like ticking clocks and ethereal voices. Most of the film passes in silence, which I have seen done before elsewhere far better.

The woman also makes a lot of very stupid decisions in our time with her. She, rightfully so, worries about the infected getting into her home, yet she constantly leaves doors open everywhere she goes. I dont mean unlocked, I mean completely open. She also enters rooms and vehicles without really using any caution, flinging the doors open or entering dark areas without a care in the world. Then when she is outdoors she acts like she is on a leisurely nature walk and not stuck outdoors, unprotected, without watching her back or checking her surroundings. You know, the thing someone who can only rely on their vision as they cannot hear would do. Even when her life is in danger she barely reacts at all. I honestly felt like she was not only deaf but also mentally handicapped in some way. I dont know if this is fact or not but it sure seems like it!!!

We dont really get an idea of what the infected's abilities or consciousness is but the stupid decisions extend further with the woman as she does things that would be the LAST thing you would want to do in this type of situation. She puts what would clearly be a loud generator outside, and fortunately doesnt draw any infected. Then later she plays an electric keyboard. While we are not sure if the keyboard is on or not, in her 'mind'; it seems to be.

The infected are... bad. As said, we dont really know what their deal is but they just slowly shamble around or stand somewhere menacingly. They dont seem like much of a threat at all. The makeup was also pretty poorly done and amateurish as well but they are rarely in the movie so its not that big of a deal.

At the end of the film we are told that Turner Clay is the: writer, director, producer, score, vfx, sound design, and editing. For a single person doing so much the movie is actually surprisingly good. That doesnt make the movie ITSELF good. The sad thing is this movie is sooo close to being good. It is reminiscent of this years 'A Quiet Place'. If it came out next year I would say that this flick was totally ripping it off. I dont know if it is coincidental, but if not only the broadest strokes of A Quiet Place as used.

The scenes are mostly shot fine, with a decent atmosphere built throughout the entire flick with the haunting sounds of what the woman remembers hearing in her past. There are some flashbacks but we're not really given enough to put much together. Since the woman seems to have only one expression: neutral, its hard to really feel attached to her. If we found out she was a robot at the end of the film, I would not have been surprised.

The name is clearly trying to use the Resident Evil games Raccoon City as a way to draw people in by calling it "Raccoon Valley" and it being a movie about basically zombies.

I didnt hate this movie, but it has too many flaws for me to consider it good. If you want an atmospheric, haunting, quiet film that might give you the creeps, then this might be worth a watch. I'm a sucker for a halfway decent horror flick, but this isnt really horror.

I feel like this movie could have been made without the infected and been just as good. Have the deaf woman left behind after a general evacuation due to some human transmitted virus then stuck in the confines of her town as she has to deal with looters or others who were left or stayed behind. In fact, I think that would have made this film all the better as the infected were really pointless.

I wouldnt mind seeing Turner Clay do something with an actual budget and actors and crew. Just, stay away from 'zombies'.

I went into this movie expecting nothing spectacular, I was only wanting to waste a little time and not be bored. This film delivered that.

From the onset, you can tell this movie was filmed on a low budget, but it isn't at all "B Movie" low quality by any means. I suppose anyone expecting a multiple award winning flick will be disappointed and could pick it apart with it's small goofs.

I actually enjoyed the lack of CGI, multiple high profile actors, and the soundtrack, which fills in quite nicely for the lack of dialogue. I wasn't at all disappointed with anything the movie brings, or leaves out for that matter.

Do yourself a favor and give it a shot if you're bored and have about an hour to burn, I don't think you'll be disappointed. (:

Not a bad movie should have been longer. With more action in it I seen similar movies like this there's is some thing some people probably missed I didn't see it the first time watching it I may wach this again to see if I missed any thing.

I have gone through many low budget horror movies that are high school quality atmosphere and acting. This one is excellent on zero budget.

Well shot. I was scared around every corner. The sound scape was amazing. Well acted.

The main character makes some REALLY stupid decisions. For a deaf woman, she has ZERO spacial awareness, she NEVER looks up from her task at hand. The fact that she's deaf has nothing to do with anything, it's never even used in a narrative sense. She's just... deaf. Because why not. I also had huge issues with this being a horror film. It's not. There's nothing horrific here. If anything it's so slow you'll be bored to death. The ending comes out of nowhere and doesn't answer anything. That works for some films, but in others it just comes off as lazy. This is the latter. There are worse movies out there, sure. But there are so many 7,8,9 reviews on here I wonder if there isn't some padding going on. Surely not THAT many people thought this was a worthwhile film!?! Let's be clear: It's really not.

Less of a movie and more of a proof of concept. The idea is to show you how far $175 can go. I think that's amazing and they should be applauded for what they put together with that, but sadly I don't think it's fair to take that into account when recommending the film. It's an interesting watch, but I would not call it captivating so much as a curiosity.

The narrative is fairly straight forward. As stated in the summary a woman is left behind in a biohazard outbreak and must navigate safety and escape a hostile, spooky environment. There's no dialog. Instead you interpret what's she's feeling via a sort of amorphous soundscape score and her actions.

This is where the movie, at times, fails the viewer. The woman never shows any emotion what-so-ever. It's like she truly doesn't care, but that contradicts her actions as she desperately moves from one situation to the next. Additionally a lot of the things she does are not only unrealistic, but especially not in character for her special circumstance. There's just many examples throughout where she doesn't "act" how someone in her situation would, categorically, for very specific reasons. This unfortunate because it's not budget related. I think if they'd done a little more research, the protagonist could have been portrayed more realistically, to the benefit of the film. Lastly, while I quite enjoyed the soundtrack, there's a few scenes where the tone didn't shift to fit the situation so it ended up being almost bright and bouncy when it should have been heightening the tension.

All that said I never really threw up my hands and walked out. This is a slow burn film and I think it did it well. There's a scene in particular that straight up gave me goosebumps. There's a million ways they could have screwed that one up, but man it felt lifted out of a nightmare. That moment alone elevated this from a 3 to a 5.

I wish I could give this a higher rating considering the budget, but I think for non-cinephiles and anyone not a film school student this will likely be a pass. It's only going to be for folks that enjoy hard work shown in a film rather than the whole picture.

This movie could have been a real gem. It had a very unique core concept that could have definitely been the makings of an award winner. Unfortunately the movie is horrifically written with countless stupid actions and bad choices splattered all over it.

One or two little things could have been overlooked, but there were just so many issues that the movie became downright painful to watch. No matter how artistically they tried to present it.

It's plain to see that they have no idea how deaf people actually function in day to day life, but to make things worse they show a blatant ignorance of how general every day life goes. Such as ignoring the fact that 911 calls work on a cellphone even if you are stuck on local calls. Or the fact that if someone's house alarm warns them someone has broken in to their garage, the person would not just wander in there on their own. Or how when someone notices that all their services are cut (phone, tv, ELECTRICITY!) they wouldn't simply shrug and go back to their usual routine.

Plus you have the infected, or whatever they were supposed to be in that terrible grade school makeup. We're given no indication about what they're doing. They just seem to either stand around watching the protagonist or slowly walk towards her. We don't even know if they were supposed to be any sort of threat.

Hopefully someday someone with some actual talent will come along and try to make a classic out of this concept. But Raccoon Valley is just a complete flop.

Millennials will be bored because this movie does not have explosions every couple of minutes, car crashes, zombie attacks, blood, gore for Millennials this would be like eating a large box of unsalted crackers.

I can imagine what they could have done with a Budget more than $175, like all those really awful Multi $Million "Remakes" (especially those that as a "Special Effect" do the "hand held" camera effect as really annoying or putting a really dark filter over the lens to imitate evening or night as so dark you cannot see anything until comes out on DVD so that you can lighten up the video).

I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into here. I just saw the movie poster/cover for "Raccoon Valley" and decided to give it a chance.

An hour and a half, give or taken, horribly wasted. This movie was abysmal.

Sure, it started out great, with the audience being introduced to a chemical accident which quarantines a city, and a deaf woman being oblivious to the incident. The movie had so much potential. "Had" being the keyword here.

Everything in the movie just fell shattered to the ground when director and writer Turner Clay decided to make it a movie about a woman doing mundane everyday chores oblivious to the events transpiring in the city around her.

The movie had a very limited budget, which showed, and it had very, very limited acting performers in it, which also made the movie suffer. I will say that Terri Czapleski actually did a good job, despite the fact that she had absolutely nothing to work with.

You are never brought in on the outcome of the chemical accident or what happened to the people. Instead you are treated to a few random straggling people showing up with laughable facial paints. The rest of the body unpainted, but the face is painted a very ridiculous way. It wasn't scary or believable for a second. It just brought embarrassment to the movie and it was cringeworthy to watch on the screen.

Sure, the woman in the movie being deaf was a nice twist to the movie. But it would have worked so much more in favor of the movie if they had opted to keep it silent and just had the natural sounds occurring around her be all that was in the movie. But no. They opted to have some god awful music playing most of the entire movie. Music that was so annoying you just wanted to mute the movie.

"Raccoon Valley" was atrocious, and I managed to stick with it to the end, as I grasped on to the straw that some illumination would be shed on the event of the chemical accident or what was going on. But no, that never came to fruition either, like everything else in the movie.

Stay clear, very, very clear of "Raccoon Valley", because it is not worth it in any conceivable way.

Raccoon Valley (2018) is a movie I recently caught for free on Amazon Prime. The storyline involves a deaf woman during a zombie outbreak . She struggles stepping out of her comfort zone and into the countryside where she seeks refuge in places from her memories. The movie is directed by Turner Clay (The Blackwell Ghost 1-4) and stars Terri Czapleski (Disaster LA). The storyline premise was okay and reminded me of A Quiet Place with zombies. The biggest problem was there wasn't many zombies or zombie scenes. Most of the movie is the woman wandering aimlessly across the countryside reminiscing about when she could hear and taking zero precautions to avoid being attacked by zombies (not avoiding making noise, walking in open areas, or closing and locking doors as she wanders around). The cinematography and settings were well selected and executed but the movie itself was kind of boring. Overall I would give this a 4/10 and recommend skipping it unless nothing else is on.

I'm usually disgusted by about 45 seconds in on most of the pay service horror offerings. raccoon valley is a nicely done, quietly tense little thriller. this one is absolutely different (and recommended) for a couple of reasons:

1) it's slow and builds. viewing the world from a clueless deaf woman, lost in the shuffle after an evacuation is announced in her town following a plane crash. at first she just goes about her routine, slowly noticing something is different.

2) it's told pretty much from the deaf woman's point of view. what little music there is is quite atmospheric and adds to the tension - sometimes sounding like light wind chimes and sometimes like a heart beating. it is interesting that her memories are presented via sound clips.

I felt the tiniest bit let down at the end, and then i didn't. it seems to fit everything that came before.

Yes this movie was made for $175. A feature length movie made for $175. It was creepy and kept my attention. Pure genius to pull that off!

This would probably get an 'A' as a student film, but as an actual movie, it really stinks. I'm not sure what they spent the $175 on, maybe lunch. I don't know if the lead actress was any good, she never said anything. I'm glad I didn't pay to see this, all I wasted was time!

Just because it was filmed decent and had little budget IN NO WAY justifies any of the good ratings it has on IMDB. It is a movie, and should be treated as such. There was NOTHING here. Nothing to grab your attention other than the movie description. The main character was emotionless, boring, and brought NOTHING to the table. The plot was next to non-existent. There is something to be said for a slow-burn movie, when it is done right. This movie was not.

That's the description of a deaf woman in this movie. I am watching this and none of the people are treating her as if she is deaf. They are talking to her when she is not facing them (she has no hearing assistance devices), they are not using sign, and she looks like she is just a woman who doesn't like anyone in her life and doesn't want to interact with them. When these warning alarms are going off and she is just ignoring them I am like why is she ignoring them? I had to look up from other reviews that she was deaf. When I saw that I was actually a little pissed off at the writer and director that they would portray a deaf/HOH person like this. I don't care how bad the makeup or anything else is in this movie. Once I realized this, I turned the movie off because this is ridiculous. Please do better. This woman in real life would have not let her husband talk to her while she was facing away from him if she could read lips. My first thought was "that marriage isn't going to last long if she doesn't say I love you back" and then I thought maybe they were having a hard time because they lost a child with the "flashback sounds". I just can't with this movie.

For the most part, I thought this was incredibly well-made. That being said, I really wanted to like the main character and couldn't. There was a lack of emotion to nearly every event that left me wanting something - anything. I accepted the slow pace of the story, but wanted more answers and felt it was unfinished like the previous reviewer.