SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Seth_Rogue_One Started out reasonably okay, the first 17 minutes or so set up for a fairly decent film.But 18 minutes in, perhaps the most stupid decision a character in a movie of all times happen which kind of makes you lose hope in the movie as a whole.Right after being harassed by some creepy armed rednecks, the wife inexplicably decides to force her husband to get rid of his gun in case they come back and he have to kill them.Like really?Who writes this crap?PS that's not really a spoiler as it's so early on in the movie, and it's not really a major plot point, also if you do decide to go ahead and watch this movie I feel as that it's to your benefit to know it just so you can more easily look aside it and pretend it didn't happen, which you kinda have to do to remotely enjoy the rest of the film.Anyway, as it progresses I found that for the more part it was pretty dull, actually that's a understatement I found the middle of the movie to be extremely dull. Torture scenes can be creepy if it's well-done and the characters are menacing, but that's not the case here.The last 20 minutes though were surprisingly good and although it didn't manage to save the movie (as at that point it's still a little too late) it did make me not completely hate the movie at least.

BA_Harrison Young couple Mike (Josh Randall) and Sheryl (Brianna Brown) go hiking in the wilds, but ignore the advice of the park ranger, opting instead to take a trail suggested by forest dweller Ida (Beth Broderick). After a tense run-in with three local hunters, Mike and Sheryl find a quiet spot to pitch their tent and indulge in a spot of love-making. Waking up early next morning, Sheryl decides to take a naked swim in a nearby lake, but never returns to the camping ground, leaving a frantic Mike to go in search of his missing girlfriend. After another run in with the troublesome hicks from the previous day that leaves him seriously wounded, Mike finds himself being tended to by Ida, but comes to suspect that the woman might have something to do with Sheryl's disappearance…Timber Falls is what you get when you take a routine backwoods horror plot and inject a little torture into proceedings for good measure: it's Wrong Turn with a touch of Hostel by way of Misery, Deliverance and TCM, and as such offers seasoned horror fans very little to get excited about, wheeling out some of the most well worn clichés of the genre (in addition to some glaring stupidity from its protagonists). It's all here, from the early run-in with the hillbillies, to the predictable twist that sees seemingly friendly characters turning out to be anything but, to the introduction of a deformed relative who is handy with a wickedly sharp implement. This lack of originality continues right down to the very last shot which is guaranteed to elicit a groan from most viewers.A reasonable cast, competent direction from Tony Giglio, and just enough nudity (a sex scene and a skinny dip from Brianna Brown) and nasty gore (finger removal, flogging, an axe in the head, a decapitation) ensure that proceedings never become completely tiresome, but with so little in the way of genuine innovation, the whole thing ultimately proves to be a rather forgettable effort. 5.5 out of 10, but not quite good enough for me to round it up to a 6.

Coventry Where to begin with "Timber Falls", as I honestly can't decide whether I should be harsh or mild in my user comment? On one hand, it's an admirably tense nowadays horror flick with brutal gore, lovely filming locations and identifiable main characters, but on the other hand it serves cliché after cliché and it's full of predictable twists. I liked the realism of the character drawings and for once the lead protagonists Mike and Sheryl are okay people that you actually wish to survive their ordeal, but fact remains that you've seen this exact same story dozens of times before and I can't filter out any aspect that is unique. Young couple goes hiking in a West Virginian national park (although for budgetary reasons the film is actually shot in Romania) where they ask the wrong persons for directions and end up in the torture dungeon of a deranged hillbilly family with a deformed son. What else can I add that you can't figure out by yourself? That the kidnappers are disturbed religious fanatics? Nope, that's hardly innovative either. That their deformed adolescent son is a perverted rapist with a nasty scythe for a toy? That's also not a big surprise, I guess… And yet, I would still encourage genre admirers to check "Timber Falls" out, because it's a competently made and unhinged horror flick that doesn't feature any boring moments. The performances of Josh Randall and the beautiful Brianna Brown are more than adequate and TV-starlet Beth Broderick ("Lost", "Sabrina Teenage Witch") clearly had a field day depicting the deranged backwoods bitch Ida. Oh, perhaps one thing that features here and you won't find in similar gore flicks: the ending. But I won't ruin it

trashgang From day one in the slasher genre we have learned two things, never trust a stranger and never go wandering into the woods without knowing the area. But still people aren't listening and that's what happening in this flick. Starts of pretty well, some nice CGI, not to much and couldn't be done in another way. Ones we see the start of the new story, we learn to know the characters, believable. Then suddenly the movie changes a bit into, been there seen it but didn't bought the T shirt. A stranger appears and tells them not to do the usually hiking but follow Timber Falls. You can see it coming a long way, we will meet her again. Even the trooper in the woods, you see it coming. No surprises are scary parts so far but again, the movie goes a bit further into red stuff and gory stuff, still watchable for the squeamish. At the end, the movie worked but the ending was typical predictable and we have seen so many in this style, Wrong Turn and that kind of horrors. If you are going to have an evening with horror friends start off with this one, you will be in the mood for the real stuff.