Don T Go In The Woods

1981 American slasher film directed by James Bryan

Don't Go in the Woods... Alone!
Theatrical poster
Directed by	James Bryan
Screenplay by	Garth Eliassen
Story by	Garth Eliassen
Produced by	James Bryan Suzette Gomez Roberto Gomez
Starring	Jack McClelland Mary Gail Artz James P. Hayden Angie Brownish
Cinematography	Hank Zinman
Music past	H. Kingsley Thurber
Product company	JBF
Distributed past	Seymour Borde & Associates
Release engagement	November 20, 1981 (1981-11-20)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	The states
Language	English
Budget	$150,000^[ane]

Don't Go in the Woods... Alone! (also known as Don't Go in the Woods ) is a 1981 American slasher picture show directed by James Bryan and written by Garth Eliassen. The film follows four campers confronted past a murderous woodsman slaying hikers on a wooded mountainside. It is one of the infamous "video nasties" banned in the Uk in the 1980s.^[2]

Plot [edit]

Alma, a frightened woman, is running down a small stream when an unseen assailant murders her. A bird watcher has his arm hacked off and gets murdered off-screen. Four friends—Peter, Joanne, Ingrid, and Craig—are trekking through the nearby wilderness. Unbeknownst to them, another tourist gets thrown over a waterfall—landing near some oblivious frolickers—and his mother is wounded and dragged away. The four backpackers ready camp for the night. Elsewhere, a pair of honeymooners named Dick and Cherry-red get attacked. Dick gets murdered off-screen when he exits the van to investigate a noise. Ruddy, now paranoid, arms herself with a modest bust. The killer throws Dick'due south trunk against 1 of the windows, and Dick spits blood on it. The killer rocks the van back and forth, tumbling it downwardly a small hill where it catches on fire with Cherry yet within. The next day, the two couples continue their hike; meanwhile, the killer stabs an artist painting a scenic view to expiry and kidnaps her young daughter.

2 more campers get butchered; the killer slits one's pharynx and hangs the other's sleeping bag from a tree before killing her with a spear. Alone, Peter witnesses a fisherman murdered with a deport trap to the head. The killer turns out to be a spear-wielding wild man sporting furs and rags. Peter rushes off to warn his friends, merely the maniac gets to them commencement, slicing Craig's arm off. Craig screams, attracting Ingrid to come running to investigate, and Joanne flees into the woods by herself. Ingrid finds the campsite aftermath of Craig and Joanne and runs away. Peter later finds Ingrid at another person's wrecked army camp before the two come across the wild homo'southward cabin and get within. They observe several sleeping bags hanging from the ceiling and junk littered across the flooring. Peter accidentally triggers a trap that reveals Craig's body wrapped in a plastic sail. Peter and Ingrid abscond the motel. A hiker finds a stick covered in tiny metal objects and takes information technology; Peter and Ingrid hear the stick jingling, and Peter kills him, mistaking him for the wild human being. The killer tosses a sharpened stick into the hiker, killing him. Then he wounds Ingrid with two of the spears. Before he can end her off, Peter grabs her paw, and they escape. They walk several miles before finding a chairlift and seeing a small town, which they enter.

Irrational due to guilt over leaving Joanne backside, Peter escapes from the hospital he and Ingrid are brought to and returns to the woods. Joanne finds a army camp containing a dead body and flees in terror. She finds the wild man'due south cabin. Joanne encounters the wild man and attempts to escape through an open window but gets hacked to expiry with a machete. The law class a posse—including Ingrid—to hunt the maniac and find Peter and Joanne. The sheriff finds the cabin, where he uncovers Joanne's trunk, leaving Peter fifty-fifty more than distraught.

The wild man claims some other victim—a man in a wheelchair who is decapitated—by nightfall. Ingrid steals a machete and looks for Peter. She finds him by forenoon, along with the savage they stab to death in a frenzy, only stopping when the search party arrives. Equally anybody leaves the forest, the infant taken from the artist is shown solitary in the wilderness, playing with a hatchet.

Cast [edit]

Jack McClelland every bit Peter
Mary Gail Artz as Ingrid
James P. Hayden every bit Craig
Angie Brown as Joanie
Ken Carter as Sheriff
David Barth as Deputy Benson
Larry Roupe as Store Possessor
Amy Martell every bit Creative person's Child
Tom Drury as Maniac
Laura Trefts as Doc Maggie

Product [edit]

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After the release of his earlier film Boogie Vision, director James Bryan decided on making a horror motion-picture show set in the Rocky Mountains as his side by side project. The motion picture was supposedly based on local rumors about a number of hitchhikers who had reportedly fallen victim to a suspected serial killer.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The film was shot on a budget of $150,000^[one] in the summer of 1980, during the director's seven-year sojourn.^[iii] It was shot in outdoor locations, partly in club to save money on the moving-picture show's lighting.^[iv] Parts of the film were shot in Brighton, Utah.^[5]

Release [edit]

Don't Get in the Woods was released regionally in the United States, opening in half-dozen theaters^[1] in the Table salt Lake City area on November 20, 1981,^[six] and later on screening in Provo on Nov 27.^[ane]

In the 1980s, the film was deemed a video nasty in the United Kingdom, and subsequently banned by issuance of the Video Recordings Act. Bated from an early rare video release, it was not available for hire or sale in the Uk until 2007, when it was released uncut on DVD with a fifteen certificate. It was classified as R18 in New Zealand for its violence. On 8 February 2015, Vinegar Syndrome re-released the film in a express screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Picture palace in Yonkers, New York,^[seven] and on March 10, 2015, they released the film for the commencement fourth dimension on Blu-ray.^[eight]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Linda Gross, a critic for the Los Angeles Times, called the film "a terrible turkey" and criticized the poor direction, screenplay and acting.^[ix]

Paul Mavis, writing for DVD Talk, gave the flick one-and-a-one-half stars out of five, calling information technology "a crappy little horror flick fabricated on a shoestring budget with people who really showed some grit in getting it done. That's fine, and more ability to those people. Just that doesn't make it good."^[10] Similarly, Dread Cardinal, which awarded information technology ii out of five, chosen information technology "a bad film", and also "an unpretentious flake of campy horror that's really only trying to have a good time."^[11] AllMovie wrote "This splatter hack-chore was forged during the slasher gold rush of the early '80s, and though information technology'southward inept enough to inspire guffaws for those who find ineptness amusing, there's cypher to recommend for connoisseurs of horror."^[12] Don't Become in the Woods was also lambasted by DVD Verdict, which stated "Aside from 1 nasty bit with a bear trap and a sequence toward the end that faintly—and accidentally, believe me—recalls The Texas Concatenation Saw Massacre in its slow, dread-saturated buildup, director James Bryan's splatter picture is an incoherent mess. An endless parade of victims keeps the fake claret squirting, simply the murder sequences are so poorly staged that it's usually incommunicable to tell precisely what'south happening. The near frightening affair about this alleged horror film, aside from its bad synthesizer soundtrack, is its pacing. Murder sequences are clumped together throughout the film, leaving a lot of flab in betwixt."^[3]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Orme, Terry (November 15, 1981). "The ups and downs of making a horror motion picture". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 10 E – via Newspapers.com.
^ Jim Harper (2004). Legacy of Blood. p. 82. ISBN9781900486392.
^ ^a ^b Pope, Bryan (November 17, 2006). "DVD Verdict Review – Don't Become in the Wood...Alone". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on December x, 2014. Retrieved December ix, 2014.
^ Thrower 2007, pp. 89–92.
^ D'Arc 2010.
^ "DeAnza Bulldoze-In Theaters". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. November twenty, 1981. p. E9 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Event Report: Vinegar Syndrome Presents "DON'T GO IN THE Woods" at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers!". Fangoria. Feb 11, 2015. Archived from the original on Feb 12, 2015.
^ "Don't Go in the Wood Blu-Ray". Fangoria. November 17, 2006.
^ Gross, Linda (October 20, 1982). "'Wood': Blood on the Haversack". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Mavis, Paul (October 10, 2006). "Don't Go in the Woods Alone : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk . Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ Sinns, Tristan (April 27, 2008). "Don't Go in the Woods...Lone (DVD) – Dread Central". Dread Key . Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ Beldin, Fred. "Don't Become in the Forest (1981) – Review – AllMovie". AllMovie . Retrieved December 9, 2014.

Sources [edit]

D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood Came to Boondocks: A History of Moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN978-ane-423-60587-4.
Thrower, Stephen (2007). Nightmare The states. London, England: FAB Printing. ISBN978-ane-903-25446-two.