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A really bad film with no plot Apparently there was a screen play for this movie .. Walk through woods .. Scream .. Get killed .. reapeat Bad acting and dialect and rubbish killings The music score is ok it does have some nice classic synth and some maracas I found it hard to keep my attention fixed to this film but somehow managed to watch the whole thing.

This movie sucked. One of the worst attempts of "Friday 13th." I've ever seen. The cast consist of unknown wooden actors that act as if they were pulled aside somewhere and asked if they could be in a low-budget movie for a few extra dollars because they couldn't find enough people people to be in this stinker. The campers arive at a campsite just to be tormented by a bat welding caveman looking guy that kills them off one by one. The killings are so fake I had to laugh. The music was so cheezy it made me laugh even more. Synthisized special effects every now and then after each death. And the woman in this movie (was that a man or a woman?) This movie sucks and just plain stupid.

Truly, one of the worst experiences I've ever had watching a "film".

It was so painful, I had to stop midway through and force my self to come back later and finish it. It has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It was extremely boring, extremely badly dubbed(the whole thing), horrendously scored(if you can call a bunch of noises that make no sense whatsoever, made by a three year old child a score).

Acting is non existent, plot is non existent, dialogue is non existent, logic is non existent. It, really, makes something like Satan's Blade(1984) look like Apocalypse Now.

2 out of 10.

The Plot, just like any other typical slasher movie four friends go camping in the woods unaware that a wild man is killing various people in the same woods and is soon heading they're way.

Everything about this film is amateurish. The plot, acting, direction, sound, photography, editing... Sure there's some gore but the murder scenes are completely ruined by annoying close-ups and editing that seems to have been done by a blind person.

The killer is probably one of the least scariest horror-movie villains ever. For the first half we only see his hands and wish we could see more of him. When we finally do, it's regrettable. In some cheap attempt at copying The Hills Have Eyes, the killer is dressed up like a caveman, wearing a blanket and pearls over his face! And oh yes, he runs around wielding a stick. Scary indeed.

All in all this is definitely not the worst slasher ever but it's still below average

Guess what, this is a stupid-camper-death movie. There is just a little bit of cheap Blair Witch-style resonance in the setup, and it comes through, but it's not through any devising or action of the filmmakers. It's one of these movies where the heroine hangs out for a while looking concerned and then a hand thrusts into the frame and grabs her and there's this piercing musical sting and then some guy goes "HEYBETTYWANTANYCHIPS!" - except this happens one thousand times. The setup involves some kind of bigfoot-cum-Leatherface mountain man who goes around killing people. For most of the first half he kills people who have nothing to do with the plot. (Padding? Desperate strategy against tedium?) The ending is stupid stupid stupid.

When I stumbled upon the 1981 slasher movie "Don't Go in the Woods" here in 2025, of course I opted to watch it since it was a horror movie that I had neither heard about or watched. And I am a big fan of all things horror, after all.

Writer Garth Eliassen put together a somewhat generic and mundane script for the movie. There are far better slasher movies out there.

Of course I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, given this was a low budget slasher flick from 1981. I was but a mere 6 years old when it was released. The acting performances in the movie were, for the most parts, actually fair enough.

The special effects in the movie are adequate, taking into consideration the age of the movie. Sure, some of the effects haven't aged well, I will say that much.

My rating of director James Bryan's 1981 movie "Don't Go in the Woods" lands on a two out of ten stars. It was a rather pointless narrative, and thus a dull viewing experience.