Bloodwood Cannibals

PLEASE DON'T TAUNT THE CANNIBALS
The movie opens smartly as a documentary of the ecosystem of the Pacific NW, claiming the area is large and diverse enough to support large predators. WE then see a young boy abducted by a cannibal. Sweet!. We know he is a cannibal because it is in the title of the movie. Bloodwood gets it name from the reddish tree bark appearance.

The movie shifts to a film crew shooting scenes of Nigel (British accent) trying to locate Big Foot. In trying to find Big Foot they come across a feral woman who they capture, but not without the guide getting bit. Those who watch zombie movies will be able to appreciate the implication.

Nigel decides to shift gears and hunt for other feral people in the words. The crew enters the forest the same time as does a flower photographer and 2 hunters. At this point the plot is established and it is just a matter of who lives and who dies...and who gets bit.

I was really impressed for a low budget film. The acting was decent. The...

FILM PHREAK SPEAKS!
I snagged this on a lark while at a store that had deals on their used DVDs. It looked fun enough and wasn't hurting my wallet too much. And it turned out to be so much more than I could ever have hoped for. BLOODWOOD CANNIBALS is a stellar low budget horror film. The filmmakers were obviously influenced by a great deal of prior cinema, and not all within the horror genre. But the repeated pop culture references - minus any annoying wink-wink-nudge-nudge - to various other films are delivered with finesse, as homages. It's loaded with incredible in-jokes in other words. It also does an amazing thing by combining grisly hick horror with not a nihilistic tone but instead a fun tone. It takes getting used to but it doesn't take long to do so. The cast and crew obviously had a blast on this movie, about the cast and crew of a web program of the paranormal/cryptozoological variety and find a much more down to earth but much more dangerous variety of "wild" life. The fun permeates the...

this movie BITES!
A film crew finds a feral woman in the woods and captures her. Upon her capture she bites on of the crew members. From there the crew takes her to the hospital. At the hospital, the doctors determine the woman gave birth about 6 months ago but the baby probally died since the woman isn't lactating. Nigel (leader of the film crew) decides to find the father of the feral woman's baby. So the crew gets picked off one by one in the woods along with a couple of hunters and a flower photographer. Just when all hope is lost, one of the members of the film crew decides to use his military training to hunt the cannibal hunters...very LAME.

At one point the military guy swings some speciality knife at one of the cannibals and removes the cannibal's eye. The leader of the cannibals comes along and picks up his friend's eyeball and shoves it back in the socket. Yep, it is LAME!

The cannibals are biters! Just about everyone gets bitten/eat alive. Then when the...

Click to Editorial Reviews