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This German-financed, low-budget thriller is undermined by a listless script and annoying slickness in the editing. The lackluster performances don't help and when all is said and done, it's really just a public-interest morality play. A flash in the pan for late-night cable viewers.

I can take all kinds of low budget bad movies, because going in expectations are low. If the movie delivers nothing, I am not disappointed because nothing was expected. On the other hand I despise low budget bad movies that manipulate the audience in unfair ways. They make you believe one thing and then cruelly switch what was depicted as reality to something that leaves you feeling totally cheated. "Blackwoods" is such a movie. The DVD case perpetuates the trick by giving no hint of the nonsense to come. In addition to the trickery, the endless flashbacks in "Blair Witch" type motion are annoying. I despise people that lie, so a movie that is less than honest is totally unacceptable. - MERK

I would give this movie 7/10, but when I saw the low score on imdb I made it 8/10.

Blackwoods is a very neat direct-to-video psychological thriller, in a style that was popular in the late 1990s, early 2000s. Movies with a lot more budget were made in this genre back then and of course these movies are better.

Although Blackwoods will never win any prizes, I don't think that's why this movie scores so bad on imdb. The box of my DVD mentions as genre Horror and I suspect that because of this, and also the photo of the ax on the cover, fans of slashers have bought this movie. And what Blackwoods is not now is an easy Friday night popcorn scary movie.

But for those looking for an entertaining film, there is a lot in return: good plot, good acting, beautifully filmed and at times quite a bit of excitement. For the enthusiast.

This has an awful story line. Awful acting. It is not scary. The ending has a twist the ruins the hole thing. It is not good has all. It is a big pile of poo poo with pee pee on it.

Movie #3 of my Boll Marathon, I actually really enjoyed this one, I was a bit bored at first, and the decisions of making some scenes be like 5 frames per second lowers this to a 2/5 rather than a 3/5 because it was genuinely sickening to have that framerate change at times. Once I got past the 30 minute mark though I actually started to be interested in whatever weird plot was going on. While watching my brain first compared it to some horror games I've played recently, one taking place in a motel that gets broken into, and another in a cannibal's house, but then eventually my brain compared the weird movie making decisions with the low frame rate to Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows and its actually REALLY funny how much these two movies have in common now that I finished it. I would absolutely be willing to watch this again with some friends (probably wouldn't watch it again by myself though.)