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Don't Go in the Woods

Don't Go in the Woods

Everyone has nightmares about the ugliest way to die.
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Overview:

Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the warning signs, our campers remain lost in the woods...alone...awaiting their fate.
Released: 1981-09-05
Duration: 01:22:00
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Tags: Slasher Horror, Exploitation
Keywords: Slasher, Cult Favorite, Backwoods Slasher, ...
Director: James Bryan
Writer: Garth Eliassen
Cast: Jack McClelland, Mary Gail Artz, Angie Brown, ...
Director: James Bryan
Writer: Garth Eliassen
Cast: Jack McClelland Mary Gail Artz Angie Brown Ken Carter James P. Hayden David Barth Larry Roupe Amy Martell Tom Drury
Genre: Horror Thriller
Tags: Slasher Horror Exploitation
Keywords: Slasher Cult Favorite Backwoods Slasher Grindhouse Film Psychotronic Film Horror B Movie Slasher Killer Bloody Violence Midnight Movie Stalker Hiker Hiking Redneck Redneck Horror Vacation Gone Wrong Manhunt Wheelchair Corpse Thrown In Water Body Count Machete Camper Woods Forest Weekend Sheriff Screaming Running River Night Mountain Lost Growling Fear Cut Branch Maniac Camping Subjective Camera Character's Point Of View Camera Shot Stabbed In The Stomach Flashback Mercilessness Stream Song During Credits Newlywed Couple Falling From Height Explosion Campfire Story Artist Homicidal Maniac Group Of Friends Wrath Wetness Water Waterfall Violence Vengeance Van Trousers Tree Trap Thirst T Shirt Sun Sunglasses Summer Stabbed To Death Stabbed In The Chest Stabbed In The Back Spear Speared To Death Spear Throwing Spear Through Chest Sleeping Bag Slasher Horror Shotgun Shorts Shirt Shack Severed Arm Serial Killer Self Justice Search Searching Scream Sadism Roller Skating Roller Skates Rifle Revolver Revenge Rage Psycho Psychotic Psychopath Psycho Killer Practical Joke Police Police Officer Police Car Plastic Bag Persecution Panic Painting Obesity Mutilation Multiple Stabbing Missing Child Medical Doctor Low Budget Film Lost In The Woods Lost Child Log Leather Lance Killer Kidnapped Child Imperative In Title Hunger Hugging Hospital Hill Hills Hidden Hidden Corpse Head Injury Hat Hanging Gun Guilt Glasses Garrote Friend Female Painter Female Doctor Fat Man Fall Evil Doctor Death Death Trap Dead Woman Dead Man Dead Girl Dark Darkness Danger Cruelty Corpse Chase Cap Campfire Blood Blood Splatter Black Humor Binoculars Bear Trap Bag Backwoods Backpack Murdered With An Axe Anger Accidental Spearing Electronic Music Score B Movie Video Nasty Gore Murder Stabbing Garrotting Impalement Stalking Axe Death Of Friend Independent Film Title Spoken By Character
Description

A frightened woman named Alma is running down a small stream when an unseen assailant murders her. A bird watcher has his arm hacked off and murdered off screen. Four friends—Peter, Joanne, Ingrid and Craig—are trekking through nearby wilderness. Unbeknownst to them, another tourist is thrown over a waterfall (landing near some oblivious frolickers) and his mother is wounded, and dragged away. The four backpackers set up camp for the night. Elsewhere a pair of honeymooners named Dick and Cherry are attacked. Dick is murdered off screen when he exits the van to investigate a noise. Cherry, now paranoid, arms herself with a small bust. Dicks body is thrown against one of the windows and spits up blood on it. The killer rocks the van back and forth, sending it tumbling down a small hill where it catches on fire with Cherry still inside. The next day, the two couples continue their hike. Meanwhile, an artist painting a scenic view is stabbed to death, and her young daughter is kidnapped.

Two more campers are butchered. One has his throat slit and the other has her sleeping bag hung up from a tree and the killer stabs her to death with a spear. Off on his own, Peter witnesses a fisherman murdered with a bear trap to the head. The killer, who turns out to be a spear-wielding wild man adorned in furs and rags. Peter rushes off to warn his friends, but the maniac gets to them first, slicing Craig's arm off. Craig screams which attracts Ingrid to coming running to investigate. Joanne flees into the woods by herself. Ingrid finds the aftermath of the campsite of Craig and Joanne, and runs away. Peter finds Ingrid at another person's wrecked camp. The two come across the wild mans cabin and go inside. They find several sleeping bags hanging from the ceiling and junk littered across the floor. Peter accidentally triggers a trap which reveals the body of Craig wrapped in a plastic sheet. The two run away from the cabin. A hiker finds a stick covered in small metal objects and takes it. Peter and Ingrid hear the jingling of the stick and Peter kills him, mistaking him for the wild man. The killer tosses a sharpened stick into the hiker, killing him. He wounds Ingrid with two of the spears. Before he can finish her off, Peter grabs her hand and they escape. They walk several miles before finding a chairlift and seeing a small town, which they enter.

Irrational due to guilt over leaving Joanne behind, Peter escapes from the hospital he and Ingrid are brought to and returns to the woods. Joanne finds a campsite containing a dead body and flees in terror. She finds the wild mans cabin. Joanne encounters the wild man and attempts to escape through an open window but is hacked to death with a machete. A posse (which includes Ingrid) is formed by the police to hunt the maniac and look for Peter and Joanne. The sheriff finds the cabin, where he uncovers Joanne's body, leaving Peter even more distraught.

By nightfall the wild man claims another victim (a man in a wheelchair who is decapitated). Ingrid steals a machete and goes off to look for Peter who she finds by morning, along with the savage who they stab to death in a frenzy, only stopping when the search party arrives. As everyone clears out of the forest, the baby that was taken from the artist is shown alone in the wilderness playing with a hatchet.

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