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Angie Brown, Jack McClelland, James P. Hayden

Four young campers, Craig, Peter, Ingrid and Joanie, back-pack through the mountains for a relaxing weekend in the wilderness. They are out camping in broad daylight, while someone else is killing tou...( read more  read more... )rists in the woods. Craig warns the others not to go into the woods alone. The hillsides are crawling with fat women huffing up hillsides, nerdy bird-watchers, and young couples. Most of whom meet gruesome ends at the hands of a deranged and growling back-woodsman with a sharp spike - who announces his presence by shaking the nearest branch and whooping. The 'happy' campers don't see a man and his wife being chucked off a cliff whilst they splash about in the river below. They enter a forest which becomes denser and darker as they progress. Peter (Nick Mc Clelland) and Ingrid (Mary Galeartz) fear that they are lost. Something large suddenly comes lunging forward with a gleaming machete. Craig (James P. Hayden) slips dead to the ground as the machete cuts him up. Peter and the others flee screaming into the forest. The rest of the day and terrifying night is spent running and hiding from the maniac murderer (Tom Drury) who is constantly in pursuit. Meanwhile the local sheriff and his deputy decide they should start to investigate some of those disappearances.

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R, 1 hr. 22 min.

Directed by: James Bryan

Release Date: January 1, 1981

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DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008

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  • cacutshaw
    February 11, 2007
    cacutshaw
    Don't go out of the video store without this "So bad, it's really bad, which is pretty good" film. Sadly, I made a short a couple of years ago and my "creature" looks a heck of a lot like this films antagonist. Embarassing.
  • sarahh19931
    November 25, 2009
    sarahh19931
    REALLY WANNA SEE THIS
  • MissGory
    May 23, 2008
    MissGory
    One of the infamous 'DON'T' films, (It would take a fair bit o time to name em all!) This is a great release, the one we had been waiting for..This flik is hilarious...another one of the 'Its what you Do NOT see that is supposed to scare you' fliks, Typical synopsis, and over the...( read more) meter acting, nothing beats a good laughable slasher just like this one.
    Grab Code Reds release while you can!
    Gorewhore Out..
  • spacecasefukface
    May 22, 2008
    spacecasefukface
    low budget goodness...
  • mpghoul1973
    February 8, 2008
    mpghoul1973
    Absurd over the top slasher flick. Not very good if your sober but its a blast under the influence. So bad its good.
  • clbeedle1
    October 28, 2007
    clbeedle1
    Best part of the movie hands down the bear trap scene. Just watch it, it's another slasher movie, bad acting, horrible music, funny situations, the works. Title says it all.
  • wrinkleraisin
    September 20, 2007
    wrinkleraisin
    Not one of my favorites, but people die like flies in this one.

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