Murder in the Woods

Something obviously is dodgy there.

Acting is very amateur and the plot does indeed seem the joyride script of a 12-year old kid who just saw a couple of slasher movies and wants to break in the film industry however when the killer (and his assistant!) are revealed it's a nice unexpected surprise and there is some twist too.

Didn't bore me but certainly not a title I will recommend. 4/10.

You *know*, within a scene and a half, that this was basically a film student's final assignment. Had I not actually PAID to rent it after being VERY EASILY fooled by what appeared like positive reviews from underground horror critics, I could not have stomached the full hour and a half. The script & characters feel like they were concocted by a twelve year old who just saw Scream for the first time and thought "I could do that!"... and the acting... oh, god the acting.

LAUGHABLY bad performances by the majority of the cast, if not all of them. Predictable from beginning to end, as far as who the killer is and the pecking order of the victims.

The one thing I'll say is I didn't expect any kind of SFX to be successful, and they pulled that off better than anything else.

3.5/10 for actually completing their vision, against quite literally ALL the odds.

It's pretty much all I wanted it to be.

All the actors did good. Watching Catherine Toribio as Celeste was extra fun to me because of her mannerisms at times, which made me go, "What the?" in a way that I like. I like the song choices as well, which is not normal for my experience with these type of slasher flicks. I really like Soledad St. Hilaire as Nana. The last half of the third act, I found done quite well.

Ending kept me wondering. All in all, I really dig it!

Music was garbage and forced in certain scenes... Only actor worth watching is the lead. the other actress just screams we gotta fet outta here like 10 times... Trejo is on film for 5 mins... Its sad because I love the lighting and area they shot... Could have been great if not for a shoddy script... terrible dialogue and horrible cringeworthy actors.

At the moment this movie has 7 reviews. All of those 7 people have only reviewed this movie, and all of them have given it 10/10. Some of the usernames also bear resemblance to one another, and most of the accounts are brand new.

Make of that what you will. This isn't a 10/10 movie.