SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Memorergi good film but with many flaws

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

toddg-473-289818 At the beginning, Timber Falls had a few good things going for it. We got to see some nice cinematography in the hills of West Virginia, and the audience can figure that a couple from the city are going to get more than they bargained for while hiking out in the wilderness. The main characters' first run in with harassing backwoods thugs winds up being far from their worst confrontation, which is an original twist.We then are exposed to immediate turn offs, such as the mountain woman that Mike and Sheryl meet early into their journey, whose contrived attitude expresses disdain at the couple not being married. We later meet her husband, played by Nick Searcy, who is even more bothered by the out-of-wedlock couple, and holds them prisoners to a shotgun wedding. I'm sure Nick Searcy would like to delete this film from his resume, as he shortly thereafter became more well known on TV's JUSTIFIED. We then go down the hopeless road of "why are horror movie characters so stupid?" This plays out several times, beginning with Sheryl's insistence that Mike get rid of the ammunition for his gun AFTER they have just been harassed by armed rednecks. Then Mike, already beaten and bloodied, seems to go out of his way to antagonize Nick Searcy's Clyde, who is not a fan of foul language, and regularly earns beatings from which he doesn't learn to curb his tongue. The final insult is Clyde's character being a park ranger by day and twisted religious zealot by night. It is too much to believe that all of the now missing couples captured for breeding by Clyde and wife Ida would not have aroused suspicion sooner.Oh, and looking back, neither Mike nor Sheryl are particularly likable, and give the audience little reason to cheer for their escape. Even the most predictable campy horror movies are better than TIMBER FALLS.

Paul Andrews Timber Falls starts as loving couple Mike Warren (Josh Randall) & Cheryl James (Brianna Brown) arrive at Lake Kumbrabow State Park near West Virginia to go hiking for a couple a days, local Park rangers advise them to stick to patrolled paths but Mike & Sheryl decide to hike to Timber Falls after a woman named Ida (Beth Broderick) says the scenery is better. Mike & Sheryl set up camp & the following morning Mike wakes up to find Sheryl has disappeared, after being caught in a bear trap Mike is rescued by Ida & she tends to his wounds at her house. Worried for Sheryl Mike insists that Ida call for help but she doesn't & Mike becomes suspicious, Mike discovers that Ida is being held by a deformed freak in Ida's basement & that Ida & her husband Clyde (Nick Searcy) have a twisted plan for Mike & Sheryl...Co-written & directed by Tony Giglio this backwoods brutality horror thriller is watchable enough for it's type but it's not something that I would call great, a mixture of classic films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) & Wrong Turn (2003) without really adding anything new or particularly memorable. The script is strictly routine in everything it does, the two big city civilized victims who take a wrong turn & make some bad decisions after which they end up at the mercy of inbred & or deformed Redneck or Hillbilly psycho's who torture them & abuse them for the remained of the film until they manage to turn the tables although here in Timber falls there's an awful twist ending in which the deformed mutant ends up at Mike & Sheryl's house over a year after he was supposedly killed. The body count is fairly low, a woman jumps to death off a cliff during the opening sequence but then no-one gets killed until the last fifteen minutes & as such Timber Falls often doesn't feel like a ten slasher but that's exactly what it is only without the large body-count. There are some glaring moments of stupidity too, why does Sheryl wait so long to admit she's already pregnant? Given the choice between being brutally tortured & having sex with your girlfriend most people would surely choose to have sex? So why then does Mike refuse & let himself & Sheryl be tortured for so long? It just doesn't sit well with me. The psycho's here are religious nuts & once again the whole idea of these deeply religious people torturing & killing people just seems contradictory, the deformed psycho Deacon is never more than an inferior Leatherface rip-off which his arsenal of rusty blades. knives & weapons. Then there's the infamous head scratching scene in which after being threatened & robbed by three Hillbillies the couple actually carry on hiking & Sheryl amazingly makes Mike throw all the bullets from his gun away.To it's credit Timber Falls is well made & a pretty glossy looking film, the photography & lighting are slick, there's no CGI computer crap just good old fashion make-up effects & there's a definite backwoods feel although it's maybe a little bright at times. The gore levels are alright but maybe because Mike & Sheryl are held captive for so long you think you see more than you actually do, a woman has long metal nails through her hands which she then rips out, a man is whipped, a little finger is cut off, people are beaten, a guy gets an axe in the head, someone is decapitated, people are shot, someone gets a knife in the neck & there's a fair amount of blood splatter too. Not the goriest film out there but still quite brutal at times I suppose.With a supposed budget of about $2,600,000 this was set in Virginia but actually filmed in Bucharest in Romania. The acting is alright, the two leads were cast for their looks while the two main psychos are pretty good.Timber Falls is a competent backwoods horror thriller that is well made, moves along at a decent pace & has a few nice torture scenes but a silly script that defies logic & common sense at times & a lack of originality prevent it from being anything more than merely watchable if there's nothing better to watch.

ctomvelu1 What is it about West Virginia? A young couple decides to go hiking in the mountains there, and end up being imprisoned by a deranged hillbilly clan looking to have a baby as their inbred nature has caused the woman in the group to miscarry numerous times. This STV takes its cues from WRONG TURN, Texas CHAINSAW and HILLS HAVE EYES. At best, it is a time killer. The special effects are nothing to write home about, and the bloodletting is kept to a minimum. There is one good torture scene. Better acting than one might have expected, too, from Nick Searcy as the clan's patriarch and Josh Randall as the hero. Both are familiar TV faces. Like so many of these films, it was shot in eastern Europe, although unlike the recent WRONG TURN 3, nothing about the film betrays this. Unless you count some over-the-top backwoods accents.

gailb-7 If you like backwoods, and by the way the scenery was fantastic, and the setting........Also if you like, weird crazy families who live out of reality, you will love this film. The only bad thing, was the very beginning, when they give you a prelude to what is to come.....Producers, leave that part off, I don't want to know what to expect before I see it. Okay, about the story, it was fabulous acting by Josh and Brianna. The only dumb thing was Josh throwing away his bullets....come on, right after you were terrorized by crazy hunters? Anyway, the movie was intense, (to much soft porn) could have used less love making, after all this is a scary horror film, but the film in general was intense and very creepy. You never really knew if those hunters were involved till way later. A lot of excellent acting in the torture and running scared moments. I'm glad they had Brianna tell her boyfriend she was 8 weeks pregnant, that was the whole point of their trip was to be a romantic camping adventure where she tells Josh she is 8 weeks along, but things started to happen before she could. This film was very realistic, because this actually happened to a friend of mine....at a chalet in the mountain woods of western North Carolina. The end was another one like Halloween, Wrong Turn, etc., when you can't seem to kill them off.....As always, that last family member coming back for more. Good, there will be a sequel....The burned brother with the cycle coming after them again..I really enjoyed this movie, it was just enough gore without being overly done and too too bloody and the characters were religious fanatics, creepy, dumb, and crazy backwoods country folks who are strange enough to do anything....This film was way better than Cabin Fever....You won't waste your time with this film, just get you some popcorn and enjoy !