The Redwood Massacre

The movie was not good at all. Acting was mediocre, plot was barely existent, and there was no depth to any of the characters. Now usually I can let a not great plot slip if there's enough bloodshed, and don't get me wrong there is a lot of that in this movie, but it was just so cookie cutter. There was nothing new or different or middle entertaining. It was just the same old copy paste "Guy with mask goes around a forest stabbing people" and it just felt like nobody put any effort into any aspect of the movie. The ending was the worst part though, because it just kept dragging on. The last 30 minutes (and the movie is only 1 hour 22 minutes) is just you thinking its over but nope it isn't because of some stupid uninteresting irrelevant thing that either doesn't make sense, or is just plain boring. It had its moments if you're like me and you like slashers, but it was just so cookie cutter, so boring, so predictable, so unentertaining. There are no scares in this movie at all. I don't even remember if they tried to put in a jump scare, I was so bored I just really didn't care.

The Redwood Massacre is a Scottish take on the Friday the 13th series of movies. Regrettably this horror flick does not live up to expectations, its a truly dismal affair, that could have succeeded with more careful handling.

This film would have worked much better without the grotesque and unnecessarily gratuitous use of violence.It would have benefited too, from gradually ratcheting up the tension, before introducing the serial killer. Indeed, putting aside the gore factor, the chief reason why this film is such a flop, is it lacks the "jump in your seat factor", found in its US counterpart.

The acting from this films cast does it no favours either. Its not bad as such, its just rather flat. Indeed, the main characters seem bored by the whole affair. Its almost a relief when some of them get bumped off.

All in all, the idea behind this film is a good one, that taps into a well established horror genre. The story's not terrible, nor is the setting. Sadly, everything else is. Three out of ten from me.

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.

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

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.