The Hike

This is the only film I have seen where the entire cast's acting is awful. Truly awful. So awful it becomes annoying very very quickly.

It is so mind numbingly awful it could potentially make your head bleed as it turns to mush from the shriekish loud voices of wannabe actresses trying far far too hard.

To be fair, is is much the director's fault as cast members. The fact that the director thought this trash acting was acceptable speaks volumes about their skills on set.

Apart from the standard of acting, the realism within the story got lost long before a word was typed it seems. A cross between the ridiculous and the factually incorrect adds to the films crappyness.

Usually there is some comedy element to awful films - but there is nothing to laugh at in this one.

Give this one a miss for sure. You would be better off watching your laundry being washed.

THE HIKE is another nastiness-in-the-woods slice of British horror. The template for this one seems to be EDEN LAKE, which is ripped off continuously, particularly at the climax. The storyline involves a group of girls who decide go off on a trip into the deepest darkest woods (shades of THE DESCENT in the group dynamics) only to run foul of some nasty blokes for whom rape and murder is the order of the day.

There's one decent twist in this film's storyline but the rest of it is a complete dud if I'm honest. Like a lot of modern horror flicks, THE HIKE mistakes unpleasantness for scares, and watching women being raped and abused isn't much fun. The brooding set-up is effective enough but the second half falls apart completely. The whole thing is shot in the dark with lots of shaky-cam work as interchangeable characters run around and kill or are killed in turn. You won't give a damn what's going on because by this stage the storyline has dwindled away and the viewer is left watching cheapjack trash.

I have seen some great survival horror films over the last few years, Resurrection County, Frontiers, Rogue River, I spit on your grave ( 2010 ) and Eden Lake to name a few. This one is the low point of this horror sub-genre. The acting and locations were good, it was just nothing scary about our antagonists. No back story, no character development and no suspense to speak of. Dull and boring that seemed longer then its 82 minute running time. I didn't buy into any of this and the ending is sooooo transparent and you can feel it coming from a mile away. If your lucky stay miles away from this film. Garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This really is a truly awful film. Girls go camping together in completely inappropriate clothing, so one is warned this is going to go badly wrong. Sadistic, gratuitous violence seems to be glorified with no plot justification, other than the glorification of gratuitous violence. This really dredges the deepest pits of human depravity, supposedly in the name of entertainment, as there is no moral compass in this film whatever, it is sickeningly depraved, though well shot and with plenty of tension, but tension only caused by the incipient nastiness which runs virtually throughout. Best avoided at all cost. I wish I knew it was this bad before watching.

It starts of well and then? well...it turns into a sexist porn/horror movie. Unpleasant to watch and very gratuitous, its such as shame as it starts off well. I am not sure who this film would appeal to, it has strong female characters that are reminiscent of the women from The Descent, but is horribly sexist to the point that any female viewer would want to turn it off. The men are ridiculous unbelievable characters, and if they appeal to any viewers then I suggest they seek specialist help.

Some of the acting is very poor, especially from the women and that makes it hard to watch. I would avoid at all costs/