Best Slasher Movies » Suspense http://www.bestslashermovies.com It's not all horror flicks and screams, ya know! Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:13:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Backwoods (2008) http://www.bestslashermovies.com/2009/09/backwoods-2008/ http://www.bestslashermovies.com/2009/09/backwoods-2008/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:09:05 +0000 slasherella http://www.bestslashermovies.com/?p=470 Backwoods is nothing new. We’ve seen the plot in at least a dozen other – and better – movies, that this movie seems familiar at best and ripped-off at worst. There are some scenes that easily would’ve been at home in too many other movies to list here.

With that said, Backwoods isn’t  a bad movie once you get over it’s flaws – the biggest of which being the familiarity already mentioned. Even so, Backwoods has a lot going for it – it’s fast paced, suspenseful and manages to pull off that eerie out of place feeling that makes a slasher movie work. All told, this isn’t one of the best slasher movies I’ve ever seen, but it’s not the worst either.

Quick Review: Familiar and cliched to a fault, Backwoods manages to overcome it’s issues to amount to a decent, watchable slasher.

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Acolytes starts out as a revenge tale – two boys are raped by a local bully and blackmail a serial killer to carry out their vendetta. It backfires on them and soon they find themselves battling for their own lives.

The suspense in Acolytes is intense and the jump scares are effective. The performances from the entire cast is above-par and although the movie is light on the gore, it doesn’t need it to be frightening. Very well done.

Quick Review: Bad reviews aside, I’m glad I took the chance on Acolytes although I have considered one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much it because I was expecting so little. Don’t go into it expecting a masterpiece and you won’t be disappointed.

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