The Redwood Massacre

The title pretty much tells the story, there are some killings in the wood and that's pretty much it. This so called massacre is presented by the antagonist whose blows are powerful enough to make a fountain of blood from any victim he meets. While hemorrhaging is no joke, it seems everyone has tendency to squirt liters of blood from the slightest touch. The excessively low budget gore is occasionally creepy, but mostly ironically ridiculous. Nevertheless, it has at least a little entertainment value.

A group of people go to a forest and meet with gruesome fate. Honestly, no one in the group is even remotely likable. Either they suddenly encounter the threat and proceed to usual frantic screaming, or the movie invests too much time on shallow characters. One particular female is so hostile, her entire dialogues consist of argument. This is very bizarre, especially when she still argues in the moments where her survival is at stake. At some points I thought she might just debate with the villain.

Other characters are overzealous, lacking logic or too meek. None of them feel as though they are genuinely facing authentic dangerous scenario with the villain gradually approaching. Scenes are poorly done, mainly because the editing is choppy. Almost the entire time the characters are shown standing randomly and awkwardly delivering the lines. Furthermore, it feels the screenplay misses a couple of scenes or lacking consistency, but audience probably wouldn't lose much anyway.

The effect is laughably over-the-top. Expect too much cheap blood spewed on the screen. It really doesn't matter what the cause is, these people will bleed. It only takes a simple jab and one of them starts to vomit blood until their hair and clothes are covered with it. This silly execution might just serendipitously work in in their favor as comedy effect.

The Redwood Massacre is unoriginal and shallow, even to the point of unintentionally funny, but the rigid slasher premise or silly antic might just deliver a few chuckles.

Twenty years after the infamous Redwood Home massacre, a group of friends decide to take a camping trip in the grounds.

A previously dormant killer starts killing again. So the campers will soon discover that the legend of the Redwood massacres are true.

The Redwood Massacre delivers on gory kills. There's plenty of splattering blood throughout the film. This is one of the highlights of the film. However the pacing is too slow for my taste. The film does have moments where it is pretty entertaining, but then it starts to drag again. Like I said the Redwood Massacre does deliver on the gore, but the overall pace of the film is slow. I don't recommend this film.

Yes it never is a good idea to go to an either haunted place or a house/farm in the woods, where a massacre occurred. No matter how many years have passed (either the children have "survived" or something else) it will be the ... death of you. Literally. But of course that is standard movie/horror cliché and if the people wouldn't do something stupid like that, we wouldn't have a movie.

And before you argue that it would be a good thing, consider that other people like this sort of movies. And the blood effects are decent enough for a low budget movie like this. Is there really more some would want out of that experience? If so, then maybe this isn't for you

The Redwood Massacre is an attempt on doing a slasher movie with some urban legend attached to it. Although, it's important to remember that this is a B movie.

Given that, it's obvious that the acting isn't great; in fact, it's terrible. Though some emotions got pictured rather good, some dialogs seemed so emotionless, as if the actors were college students trying to present a seminary. It's comparable to the acting on "Birdemic: Shock and Terror" (yep, it's that bad...)!

All the clichés are here: an urban legend that happens to be real, a psychopath, bloodlust, characters that are dumb as a door, gore, characters that go straight to the slaughterhouse; it's all here!

Credibility in this movie sucks! Though, it's understandable: things aren't that "entertaining" in real life. What I mean is that the main characters on this types of genre never try to get help of any kind, like calling the police or something; but that's the mark of an horror-slasher flick. I can bear that.

However, some flaws are noticeable. Some major flaws, actually. If you're that type of person who watches a movie and goes full critic on it, you'll see what I mean. (Some credibility mistakes can't be overlooked.).

Plot was nothing special and I felt it was fine, until the very ending. I mean, what more to expect: it's about a murderer who murders. There's nothing to it. Though, to me, they could've developed a better backstory to the main villain. It seemed unthought and kinda mediocre.

Also, I didn't like that the villain's personality changed throughout the movie. That's kinda bad and ruins credibility (and the movie) for me. It delivers that feeling that the story isn't flowing "naturaly", that it's being manipulated to the taste of some "sick f***" writer.

After the plot twist, I felt that the storyline got kinda rushed.

The ending was fine, by its standards, but what's up with one event that happens there? To me, that one fact ruined the movie's ending! It felt as an excuse, an unexplained, unadvised, unthought, excuse! I was in shock when I saw where things were going. Geez!

Besides, Kirsty's personality is hateful! I needed to clear that out!

Effects were fine, but the blood's color was way too dark. Overall, this movie delivers the same thing as every slasher flick nowadays.

OMG! I rooted for the badguy, even though he was stupid. However, the kids were dumber than most I've seen in horror films.

Yes, this was low-budget. I have to say they had good kills, if that's your thing.

Kirsty was the most annoying character. She was mean from the start and rather confrontational for no reason. When they got up the next morning and Mark and Jessica were missing, it was like a scene was missing.

When the killer had three of the kids in his lair, I thought it was weird. He killed anyone else in the woods where he found them, but he decides to knock out the kids, drag them all the way back to his place for some ritualistic torture. It wasn't consistent with the other kills.

If you're bored, and you want something to watch, maybe you might enjoy this. I do not recommend, because it almost put me to sleep (no joke).

BTW, the people who died deserved it for their stupidity.

I gave this a 4-star rating. It would've been lower, but I could tell they did try to put together a fun movie, and I think effort counts.