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I watched this film aware of the critical kicking it had received at the hands of the UK Press. It wasn't nearly as bad as I feared it might be .It is Director Tony Giglio's mainstream debut, and you can see the films he enjoyed watching at Film School. The "Hills Have Eyes". "Deliverance", "Misery" "Friday The 13th" all have thematic or visual references .Those who have enjoyed those films will not be disappointed by this .However, therein lies the rub, in terms of originality it is 0/10, as an homage my 6/10 stands.

Aficianados will enjoy the horror staples. Brianna Brown, as toned, wavy haired blonde victim Sheryl is perfect. She screams and moans a lot, and gives us a very enjoyable white lacy underwear moment before some embarrassingly soft porn shots. Heroic boyfriend Mike, played by Josh Randall, is able to take beatings, whippings, brandings, Bear trap entrapment and various other indignities whilst still coming out at the other end as manfully as a hero should. Interestingly although this film has been caught up in the "torture porn" debate, it is Josh who is shown bare chested and writhing much more provocatively than his female heroine.

The cinematography is strong, and the mountain setting in West Virginia beautiful. Although essentially a "painting by numbers" horror plot, the story is lifted by the intelligent performance of Beth Broderick as Ida, the religious fanatic unable to carry a baby full term. One of the problems of the horror genre is that it is impossible to churn out stories each more gory, more horrifying or more titillating than what has gone before. This neither attempts , nor achieves, any of those objectives. That should not disqualify the likes of "Timber Falls" though for a picture soundly made, and well executed.

Timber Falls, despite being similar to many horror movies taking place in a lonely wooded area, still manages to stand its ground within the genre. The opening 20 minutes starts out with everything horror fans have seen before; but when the villain's motive is finally revealed, the film will be sure to catch you off guard. For a movie with such a generic plot, no one will see this coming. The villain's intentions are brutal, twisted, and frighteningly believable! Performances are fine, the violence is intense and the pace is never too slow. The ending is clearly a throw-back to various 1980's style horror sequels which will either cause you to sigh or laugh, but overall you'll still be entertained.

In short, despite its title, Timber Falls will eventually "fall" into the cracks of obscurity, but will not fall short. Give this one a shot. Enjoy.

When a young couple (Josh Randall and Brianna Brown) go hiking in West Virginia, they meet with a local woman named Ida (Beth Broderick) who recommends that they head along the trail to Timber Falls due to the beautiful waterfalls and gorgeous Appalachian views. Despite prior knowledge that the trail is the least frequently patrolled, Mike and Sheryl decide to follow Ida's advice and end up abducted, tortured and fighting for their lives against... oh, that would spoil the fun wouldn't it?

"Timber Falls" borrows a little bit from "Wrong Turn" (in fact, it was mistakenly marketed as "Wrong Turn 2" in Brazil), a little bit from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and a little bit from "Hostel". Unfortunately, it ends up less than the sum of its parts. The best scene in the entire movie comes in the opening segment which features a lot of blood and the rather gruesome way in which a young woman frees herself from imprisonment. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is nowhere near as bloody or horrific. With only one exception that I can think of, the camera subsequently shies away from showing most of what is happening.

The fact that it borrows from other movies isn't what causes "Timber Falls" to fail. The movie fails because the main characters aren't actually that interesting. They spend the first half of the movie making small talk or simply making out with one another, and the second half crying or shouting. You don't get much back-story either, other than some dialogue explaining that one of them is a nurse. Because of this, you can't really connect to either of them and ultimately don't care all that much about their fate.

It's a shame really because you get the feeling that director Tony Giglio has quite a lot of talent. The Romanian landscape (where the movie was actually filmed) is captured beautifully and he fully conveys the gloom of the location in which the two main characters are imprisoned.

As it is, "Timber Falls" isn't a bad movie. It just isn't a particularly great one either. The torture scenes aren't particularly interesting and there's absolutely nothing here that you haven't seen before in other horror movies of this ilk. If you've already watched "The Hills Have Eyes", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Wrong Turn" and all the other scary wilderness/torture-porn movies then this will be an okay rental until something better arrives. If not then try one of the aforementioned movies instead

Mike (Josh Randall) and his girlfriend Sheryl (Brianna Brown) travel from Virginia to Lake Kimbrabow State Park in West Virginia to spend the weekend hiking and camping in the woods. They ask for directions to the local guard that advises them to follow the Donner Trail or the Willow Creek Bridge; however, Mike meets the local Ida Forester (Beth Broderick) in the crossroad that tells them that Timber Falls has magnificent landscapes and a wonderful waterfall and the couple decide to go to the place. They stumble with the troublemakers Brody (Branden R. Morgan), Darryl (T.W. Leshner) and Lonnie (Ryan McGee) and Sheryl convinces Mike to get rid off the bullets of his revolver. They camp and in the morning Sheryl is abducted while bathing in a nearby lake. The desperate Mike seeks her, and finds a deranged fanatic religious family that needs them to procreate an offspring.

"Timber Falls" has an unoriginal story that I have seen many times: "The Hills Have Eyes", "Wrong Turn", I can count many movies with stories similar to the original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and also "Deliverance", "Misery" plus a collection of clichés of the genre. However, the blending is surprisingly good and works, hooking the attention of the viewer until the very last scene. When I see this type of movie, I try to guess what will happen to the prisoners. Will they survive or die? The gore resolution of "Timber Falls" is also great, but the last scene is absolutely unnecessary. I liked very much the performance of Beth Broderick in a contradictory character. The make-up of Deacon is impressive and the locations are stunning. In my opinion, fans of the genre will not be disappointed with this film. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Pânico na Floresta 2" ("Panic in the Forest 2")

OK, this story is not so original. You've seen this too many times. I can name Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, Misery and… too many to name. The good thing about this movie is that I actually care about the lead characters. It's not like those movies when you say "Kill them all". The violence is well-done and yes, this is not Torture Porn like The Saw and Hostel sequels. The make-up is fantastic and this movie doesn't have those dumb CGI. Great performances by the lead characters and by the killers too. If you want an enjoyable movie with a lot of tension and violence, you should check this out. You won't repent.

I don't even know where to start. I just finished watching this and i'm seriously angry. I'm angry that i actually wasted time watching it and I'm even more angry that this movie somehow has a rating of 5.8.

There is nothing worse than a crappy B horror movie that tries to make itself seem like a Hollywood blockbuster. And this film takes that to a whole new level.

Horrible story that we've all seen a thousand times before, stupid illogical character actions that just make you mad, a ridiculous ending and every single shitty cliché possible. The only thing, literally the only thing i could give this movie, was the acting was decent on the main characters.

This was really and truly a horrible movie.

Get used to it! We are only going on ova 100yrs of movie cinema 😂

Good luck trying to find something that hasn't been done before. Please post if u find it. Then we can all reassure u that it's been done before. Doesn't matter if somethings been done before. Different characters, different place, different time usually & usually there's a lot more different than that. I've seen 100 serial killer movies, I'm gonna keep watching em. I've seen thousands of slashers. I'm gonna keep watching em & not gonna say after, "wtf, how many times do I have to watch teens get killed by a maniac". When I can comprehend that just cuz it's a maniac whacking kids doesn't mean it's just like the rest. Obv some outliers where the movie is like almost a bad remake but most of time that is not the case. Most of the time it's just a similar story with a similar plot & thats cuz we don't live the most complex of lives as humans. It's not like there's 10 billion storylines that are unique to themselves that nobody else has ever seen a group of humans do. I think when people realize that fact they maybe will be able to start enjoying movies again & not just rating every movie they see with 1,2 or 9 & zero thought put into it. Pretending ur writing a mock for part of a film class final & rating average movies at worst with a 1 totally just kill ur credibility

I reluctantly rented this movie after passing over it repeatedly at my local RedBox. From the DVD cover art and that fact that I've rented quite a few low budget stinkers from RedBox, gave me pause to ponder. I paid my 1.07 and brought it home thinking that I was in for another cheap digital, direct to DVD bomb (see Full Moon's "Petrified" for all time worst movie.) Maybe I'd get a couple of "Plan 9" type laughs out of Timber Falls. Boy, was I wrong!! This movie was tight and scary. Sure I've seen this type of plot line a dozen times or so, but what the hell--I love those predictable zombie movies too and will rent them religiously. Timber Falls was well crafted and moved at a brisk pace. It easily held my attention and I had only paused it for one trip to the bathroom. That says a lot, because when bored, I will usually get up multiple times from my living room couch to meander around the crib. The acting was very good and believable. There were a few scenes that I could've done without, but as a whole, the movie had me jumping up and down and wringing my hands like an old Jewish bubby that just found out her grandson married a shiksa. I highly recommend this movie and give it a huge "welcome to my vault of horror."

Timber Falls is the typical horror movie about teens having big troubles in the woods. Without introducing something we've never seen before, Timber Falls manages to be entertaining for the most part.

Mike and Sheryl are young, traveling couple whose destination is a lake in the woods. While enjoying the beauty of nature, the two meet inhospitable hunters who act weird only to steal $50 from the couple. After this bizarre event is forgotten, Mike and Sheryl spend the night in a tent. The problem is that they are not alone. Somebody spies on them. When Mike wakes up at the next morning, there is no Sheryl. Having realized something is terribly wrong, Mike goes after the hunters, blaming them for his girlfriend's disappearance. They are not the kidnappers though.

Timber Falls is not a waste of time although this storyline is really one of the biggest clichés around. Location - woods, characters - dumb, killers - disfigured or sheriffs. However, the movies has its moments for sure. The first 20 minutes are an almost perfect build-up for any kind of story. There is this beautiful location which helps for the increasing tension although I didn't feel tense. But it's there and it's obvious what purposes it serves. The second part is completely different with the characters being tortured underground. Maybe I didn't fall for that, but still, the first act is quite impressive for something that has been made for over three decades. Director Tony Giglio, although not experienced enough, has shot some good material. The opening sequence for example. We are shown a scared, tortured girl whose friends are supposedly killed, but we never get to see what happens to her. The scene's fast pace leaves the grotesque for the imagination. A very smart move by the creators although it does resemble Wrong Turn a bit.

Now, I do have some remarks concerning the acting. OK, I can live with Josh Randall's weird, never ending screams. I can even bare Brianna Brown's horrible performance in the second act, but I simply hated the villains. From what I understand, Beth Broderick, as the crazy old lady, is considered the highlight of the film. However, I have a completely different opinion about her heroine - Ida. I mean, this woman wasn't believable at all. She is one of the first supporting characters introduced and you could clearly tell she's not what it seems. Maybe, just maybe, that was intentional, but still, it's a terrible moment for the plot development, because you know the main characters will have an unpleasant, second encounter with that lady. As for Nick Searcy, who plays Ida's husband - well, I didn't care about him. He was impersonal and tedious. Besides, his overacting was irritating. Good that there is this German guy who plays a disfigured retard who does the dirty work for the old couple. He's a nice addition to the otherwise boring villains.

Overally, Timber Falls is worth a look. It's flawed, but the final result is rather satisfying. Check it out.

All the major clichés of the genre seem to get wound up in this movie. A young couple go camping in the mountains of West Virginia and end up in the clutches of a murderous local backwoods (and somewhat backwards) family. How original can this be? Well, the answer is not very. About the only part of the standard cliché that was left out was cannibalism! It's not that the movie was a waste. It actually had quite an eye- catching opening, and the performances were surprisingly good (a judgment which may admittedly be more a factor of my own low expectations than anything.) For a while there's also a pretty fair level of suspense, and good use of the setting.

But the good is outweighed by more problematic aspects to the story. My first question revolved around why this couple even got into this situation. They were warned to stay off all but two trails. Then, when they first ran into trouble on the trail they chose (not one of the two,) why continue on. After an encounter with that first group of backwoods thugs, I think I'd have gotten out of there as fast as I could. The movie ends up going for one of the unfortunate choice to make the backwoods killer family a bunch of religious wackos, for no truly obvious reason that I could see, but crosses certainly abound in this. The movie gets increasing and graphically gory as it moves along, and some of the gore near the end comes across as silly rather than believable. It all culminated in an admittedly unexpected but also completely inexplicable (and somewhat nonsensical) very last shot before the credits begin to roll.

Granted that there are some good things involved with this, but they can't save an unoriginal, cliché-ridden piece of work.

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.

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

What do we have here? Another movie trying to shock us with insane bastardised Christians who think the phrase "thou shalt not take the lords name in vain." is the way into heaven, whereas the phrase "thou shalt not kill" is just symbolic and not worth following.

The story is about a couple from the city who decide a fun way to spend the weekend would be to go hiking in hickville U.S.A., but even the movie "Deliverance" couldn't have prepared them for what was about to take place... for 2 reasons.... 1. Rape is anti Christian and would prevent the thousands of teenagers from seeing this movie, thus costing the producer millions as a result... and 2. Who the hell would have ever expected a national park to be busier than the park nearest your house? Seriously I've been hiking many times myself in park and mountain trails sometimes within city limits and I would seldom come across other hikers much less 3 separate groups of them as in the movie, who show up again and AGAIN on the same hiking trail, led alone the fact that all of them are either some brand of psycho or lowlife in general. To clarify one thing, Timber Falls is not a town but merely an area off a hiking trail. But don't worry, this was all PLANNED if that's supposed to be an asset in movies these days. Yes, all of them are plot devices who appear again later just HAPPENING to run into the 2 protagonists once more. "oops i accidentally stepped in a bear trap while walking backwards, but thankfully the same crazy old lady i met earlier was able to find me 10 seconds later and bring me back to her house" For example what would have made more sense rather than each character making their little introductions along the trail before being part of the story is if they appeared just ONCE rather than reappearing. Also The dialogue isn't exactly fantastic and it seems so much like the actors just coming on screen to say "Hello, I will be playing the old lady" "hello, i will be playing the cop" and at 100 minutes running time it's not like they needed any filler, though I will say that the actors put out an honest good effort. There's not much else to say other than the whole movie is so contrived and unrealistic.

Other than that, if while watching the movie you ever had any doubts as to whether it was a total piece of junk or not, the twist in the end is likely to affirm your initial impulse which would have been to throw it out the window and never see it again. All I will say about that, is imagine setting someone on fire with a Molotov cocktail in the rain, in a place hundreds of miles away from your house, who was a monstrous burn victim in the first place and then having that same person who apparently burned to death as a result, end up somehow tracking you down. Also if you threw a Molotov cocktail on someone who happened to be wearing a trenchcoat, and it happened to shatter, only the area touched by the alcohol would be set on fire initially and it wouldn't be able to envelop his entire body within seconds; Literally all he would have to do is casually take his coat off... plus it was raining. So much for their intended irony of "he was set on fire... AGAIN"

I personally found a movie like "Deliverance", which isn't even considered a horror movie by most, much more terrifying in its harsh realism rather than this fake attempt at horror. I've officially lost all faith in the horror genre, since 90% of horror films are like this; contrived and completely unrealistic, and ultimately it is hard to be scared or shocked by what you can't accept as at least halfway plausible.

For the life of me I cannot understand why Michael (Josh Randall - "Ed") would bother going after Sheryl (Brianna Brown). All she did the first 30 minutes of this movie was whine and complain.

There is nothing new or original here. It's the same story about inbred mountain folk and their bizarre rituals - this time with a really interesting weapon.

You have the usual torture, and a nice decapitation, but it never really gets to the level we are used to. The ending just doesn't make sense, either.

Go watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre again instead.

"Timber Falls" (2007) would not be a bad movie had the director not decided to fancy up the last part and especially chosen an ineffably stupid end. Since many people have criticized that the basic motive of the movie is known, let us investigate a bit.

In "Timber Falls" as well as in related horror movies, two persons, mostly a young man and his girlfriend, end up in a forest, may it be because of vacation, by accident amidst of a road, by a fraternity prank or whatever. In the forest, they meet either human or supra-natural beings mostly practicing killings. The couple is caught and, after a usually longer period of torture which fills almost the whole movies, they succeed in escaping. Only is the past 2 or 3 years, the following movies (a very short selection) follow this motive with only little variation: The Lodge (2007), Dead of Winter (2007), Wind Chill (2007), Scarce (2008), "The Last House on the Left" (2009), the letter combining the "forest"-motive with the also recently very wide-spread "lake"-motive on or out of which corpses, with or without supra-natural strength, are appearing.

From the history of horror, especially in the USA, this motive is salient, since the gigantic forests of the New World are not populated by Erl Kings, Libussas, Elfs and other ghosts like the woods in the Old World are. The forests of the New World are rather conspicuous National Parks with well-defined clean streets, constant bivouacking control, selected fire-places, fenced-in forbidden areas and so on. There are no secrets from thousands of years ago, because no Celts, no Romans, no Mesopotamians etc. have chosen these former rain-forests for their dwellings or pavemented war-roads through it which are still governed by their ghosts living under the ruins. So, where does this recently upcoming motive of the "haunted" forests, lakes, mountains come from? I would say, there are three sources: The first source is the one from which Stephen Kings obtains his whole material for his novels, the legends from the early settlers of New England which have been brought over centuries ago and may have survived, partly mixed with local Indian legends, up to the present. The second source is the spreading of typical European horror motives in mostly German horror movies since the Fifties. One good candidate for inspiration of horror in the New World is "It Happened on Broad Daylight" (1958) with Gert Fröbe, in which young girls are killed in a dark forest by an evil "wizzard". The third source, which I cannot prove, but am convinced about its existence, is the re-settlement of (traditional or invented) New England-horror motives in the rest of the USA, and may it be for purely practical sake of film making: Everybody who lives in that area, will tell down to his grand-children that according to that movie, this or that happened in those forests. So, legends arise, and, frankly, not even much different from those of former times, with the only distinction that these were not transported by movies but solely by everyday talking.

I am a pretty picky Horror movie fan and I gotta say, I was surprised how much I enjoyed this movie. Original enough of a storyline (for this type of West Virgia "backwoods" style movie) Twists, turns, and just enough gore to appease the gore hound in me. If you like hills have eyes, river runs red, wrong turn or any like style movie, you are sure to enjoy this one. The cast and characters are believable enough to make this movie work. I saw some pretty nasty reviews about this movie and I don't know why. It wasn't like Staunton Hill where you had to wait for a week and a half for something to happen. I would rate it a 8.5/10

A couple Mike and Sheryl are going off into the West Wirgina woods for the weekend of hiking.Their main goal is to see the titular falls.They don't know that there is a danger lurking deep in the woods.A crazy family of religious freaks kidnaps unsuspecting tourists,torture and kill them.They are trying to coerce Sheryl and Mike into having sex in order to provide them with a baby."Timber Falls" pretty much reminded me "Wrong Turn" and every other survival flick I have seen including "Deliverance".Admittedly three hunters selling moonshine in the woods are pretty amusing,but the film relies too much on clichés.The plot is predictable and the gore is quite plentiful.One thing for sure:the scenery of West Virginia is delightful.6 out of 10.