Ryan Notman :) To me this movie was fantastic. with surprisingly good acting from Haylie duff. when i saw this movie at my local DVD shop i didn't really think much of it. i walked in, looked at it, put it back, then the lady behind the desk said pick one more for $1.00 so i went straight to Backwoods and picked it up. when i got home i put it on and when the starting credits came on i said to myself this movie could be good and i was right. it was like Wrong Turn (just without the inbreds). it keeps you on the edge of your seat wanting more. i wasn't expecting good acting from Haylie Duff but i was quite surprised her acting had improved since the last movie she was in. if you see it cheap you should buy it but don't pay to much for it :)

millerronnie54 Honestly...I have to say..I really liked this movie. I thought it wrenched up the thrills even better than the first. I mean, jump scares literally occur about every five minutes (but not in an annoying way). I thought I wouldn't really care about them as much because they weren't a family, but all of the actors did a great job at making you feel for them. I mean, most of the time, you didn't know their name until they died, but who cares? It doesn't mean the movie wasn't good. Another good note was that ALL the kills were extremely gory and I have to say that more often than not, I was not expecting them to happen when they did. I also had a terrible time trying to pick who would die next...but that made the movie much more enjoyable.

Paul Andrews Backwoods starts as seven computer game designers from Los Angeles & their boss head out to the isolation of Jasper Park in North California for a team building yet competitive exercise of paint-balling, Adam (Ryan Merriman) expresses his concerns about the dead mutilated animals that they find, that he doesn't think things feel right & the fact that he saw someone looking at them the previous night but no-one takes any notice of his rantings. That is until four of the work mates stumble across a cult of people who murder the men that trespass & take the women to breed future members, with the teams numbers dwindling quickly the survivors must find a way to escape the woods back to civilization & get help but the cult members are everywhere & do all they can to kill them in order to keep themselves hidden from society...Directed by Marty Weiss you could be forgiven for thinking that Backwoods is some cheap backwoods teen slasher (hell, it's even called Backwoods) but after watching this I'd say it's more of an action thriller as much as a slasher & I also have to add that I didn't have high hopes for it but Backwoods didn't turn out to be too bad. It starts out like a Wrong Turn (2003) rip-off with a little Deliverance (1972) thrown in there as a teenager is killed & his girlfriend kidnapped by ugly rednecks & then a group of workmates on a team bonding exercise turn up & are seemingly next up for the chop but the majority of the film is spent with a cat & mouse game between the computer game designers & the evil cult members as our heroes turn the tables on the rednecks, most of the character's are adults rather than teens & the whole cult angle is different to what I was expecting. Having said that Backwoods isn't any sort of masterpiece, it never goes as far as it probably should, there's some nonsense about the cult kidnapping women for breeding purposes & when you boil it down I suppose Backwoods is nothing more than people running around a wood chasing each other. At just over 80 odd minutes the film moves along at a decent pace & it passes an hour & a half harmlessly & it even entertains on a basic simple unfussy sort of level but just don't expect lots of blood or gore.Backwoods gets off to a terrible start with some horrible opening credits which are fast cut snippets of footage that is blurred & processed set to some awful rock music but luckily things improve. As mentioned the gore levels are a bit disappointing, while there's a fair amount of violence it's action film violence with fights & shootings rather than horror film violence, a few arrows are shot into people & a guy is impaled on a wooden spiked trap but there aren't many memorable death scenes here. At least it's well made with good steady cinematography & thankfully the fast editing is confined to the opening credits.Filmed in some woods in Los Angeles this has good production values & actually looks quite good without any of the annoying modern over processed editing tricks that are used far too often in modern cinema. The acting is reasonable, Haylie the sister of singer Hilary Duff appears here & is alright.Backwoods isn't a bad way to pass an hour & a half I suppose, it's nothing amazing but nowhere near as bad as I had feared. Overall you could do a lot worse, worth a watch if you can catch it on telly for free.

matttieee123 And no, not horrible for the violence/gore. This movie is just plain horrible because of the acting, directing, cinematography and far-fetched storyline. I strongly DON"T recommend this film to you because: 1: The story line is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Since when has work been playing paintball in the woods?! 2: Furthering my point of ridiculousness, a cult in the woods run by crazy old women. HUH?? 3: The acting is really bad. So bad, it probably would have been better if Paris Hilton was in it. 4: It's predictable to a high level. 5: It doesn't even meet the standards of a B grade movie which it is trying to be.So don't be fooled by the "Haylie Duff" on the cover because she is probably the only decent actor in the film but she is hardly in it. If you want to see a decent movie about the woods, see "Wrong Turn" which makes a lot more sense and provides a lot more scares than this disaster of a movie.