The Last Cabin

Great, another ridiculous 'found footage' garbage heap. Now, had I known that "The Last Cabin" was a 'found footage' type movie, I would never even have given it a second glance, as I absolutely detest that ridiculous genre of movies. It is just simply beyond my comprehension how these homemade movies pass as entertainment.

Sure, I had never even heard about director Brendan Rudnicki's 2025 movie "The Last Cabin" prior to stumbling upon it. And thus, without knowing anything about it, I opted to check it out.

I can't claim that writers Brendan Rudnicki and Kellan Rudnicki managed to put together a particularly interesting script. It was pretty generic, and for a seasoned horror movie fan, the movie just didn't cut it.

Needless to say that I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and that was actually something that spoke in favor of the movie. The acting performances were fair; nothing great or memorable, but fair.

My rating of director Brendan Rudnicki's 2025 movie "The Last Cabin" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.

The Last Cabin sees three movie location scouts renting a cabin in the woods where they are attacked by a group of strangers wearing creepy masks. The whole thing is shot documentary style on the trio's cameras.

It amazes me how people can make something so derivative, so poorly written, so uninspired and so amateurish as The Last Cabin: there is nothing original about the whole sorry mess, the acting is atrocious, and the gore is pathetic.

The masked killers do that 'standing still and tilting their heads' schtick that has long been a horror movie cliché; despite being fairly evenly matched to their assailants, the protagonists act like total pussies; and despite plenty of people having been killed by the maniacs prior to this film's events, no-one appears to have investigated the disappearances.

The Last Cabin is shoddy, cheap and totally devoid of fresh ideas - fully deserving of my 1/10 rating.

Dont let the reviews fool you of those who probably made the movie. This is literally horrible. Worst acting ever and perhaps should be watched in a film class on how to not make movies. If you want to wach, I hope you remember this post and tell me that i told you so!

Acting was god awful!!!! And almost comical. I could have made this with my friends in the backyard and it in fact might have even been better.

I am so tired of reviews that people make who have something to do with the film. I am such a sucker and first time I fell for it in some time. Anyways, good luck! Just expect masks and horrible acting.

Plot

Trapped in a remote cabin, a film crew finds themselves stalked by three masked men who know the isolated forest and their every move.

Cast

Made by the creators of the very underwhelming Haunting of the Murder House (2022)

Verdict

Despite being punished by dozens of awful found footage movies I still believe it has it's place in the industry and look forward to that rough diamond nestled in the mountain of dirt that I come across every once in a while. Is the Last Cabin diamond or dirt? Very much the latter.

Found footage is usually supernatural, usually ghost themed and it's always refreshing when they try something else. I've seen found footage aliens, dinosaurs, zombies, bigfoot and beyond with mixed results and this one is a found footage slasher.

Three people go to a log cabin at night and come under attack from mask wearing psychopaths with no clear motivation. What you expect to happen, happens but very slowly and with very weak death scenes.

At first it got my attention, then as events unfolded it lost it as it descended into generic found footage territory. Nothing really happens, you don't see a vast amount, the character development is non-existent and every found footage trope here is used excessively except the night vision one which they skipped or perhaps didn't have the budget for?

A lazy, generic, bland found footage film that brings absolutely nothing new to the table and will appeal to folks new to the genre and with non-existent expectations.

Rants

Remember when it felt like filmmakers made an effort? Where they were movie fans themselves, knew the landscape, knew what had been done and knew what the fans wanted? Now it feels like instead of even trying to make anything new they intentionally recycle all the stuff that's already out there. Such a shame, this kind of thing is why I'm sleepwalking through movies because I've seen it before. Give us something new you lazy unoriginal folk!

The Good

Kind of like the cover art For about 15 minutes I was entertained

The Bad

Lazy and unoriginal Really breaks down at around half way Nothing really happens Poor kills.

This is my first online review so I'll keep it short and sweet. I'm a big horror fan but this movie had no real tension, no sense of dread and no real chemistry between the actors. Basically, it's "TheStrangers" in the woods. It feels very amateurish, like a film school project. Only thing it has going for it is that it is short.