Michael Ledo Cabin in the woods with legendary killer on LSD...still after 40 years. The first thing you notice is the wind whipping across the microphone. Put a box around it or something. The camera work wasn't good and Salisbury isn't the most scenic place in the world, but are famous for their steak made from various beef producing animals. The females were terrible actors, but in all honestly that's how guys in Pennsylvania act, so their acting was good, it just looked as bad. The dialogue was silly. At one time Emma, played by Ashleigh Mankey, was called Leigh, right before they head on down to the stream. Just a mess.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Leofwine_draca I'm not sure what film the other reviewer on here saw but the DARK SHADE CREEK I watched was a complete piece of junk and nothing more than a waste of time slasher effort. Once against the plot is of the old, very tired, let's-go-camping-in-the-woods variety, as a bunch of airhead guys take a trip that quickly turns deadly.Most of the running time consists of a bunch of guys hanging around in a garage and chatting about everyday trivia. Exciting it isn't. The low budget look is very typical and the film lacks the kind of style or effort to make it a good one. The gore literally consists of lumps of raw meat being chucked around. I hated it.

MissAnnThrope 1. Blonde who can't act her way out of a paper bag and a bad spray on tan? Check.2. Warned to not go in the woods, but they go into the woods anyway? Check.3. Fat plain looking girl with the fat ugly guy? Check.4. Rednecks with folksy sounding names and bad teeth? Check.5. Lifesized clown doll urban legend? Check.6. Everyone getting drunk and acting real stupid? Check.7. Car won't start? Check.Trust me when I say there are more. I feel dumber for having watched this. While this was made for $500, that is no excuse for not knowing how to edit. The music and sound effects blast you out of your seat and the dialogue is really soft. Considering most of the cast and crew are related, I'm sure someone could have helped with the sound editing.The story is one big cliché. Don't go in the woods, there's a killer out there! Oh, stupid rednecks, they're so superstitious and we're hipsters, so we are just going to laugh at all the warnings. Other things are really laughable too. The local store only sells moonshine, not beer and they're drinking it as fast as if it was beer? Yeah. Anyone who has tried moonshine would tell you that people don't act like they're drinking water and to drink the amount these people did would lead to alcohol poisoning and the killer wouldn't have had to have stalked them. If this was reality, the movie would have been about them going into comas and choking to death on their own vomit.The continuity is way off. Hey, it's storming outside. Oh, let's switch to where the killer is stalking someone and it's not even raining, even though it's like 10 feet from the cabin!This is also the most fleet footed killer around. It takes the sheriff hours to get somewhere close, but the killer can walk there in five minutes.The acting. Holy mother of god, the acting. Everyone was awful, but the lead, who appears to be married to the writer/director, was the absolute worst. She recited the lines, but it sounded like she was reading them off cue cards without even understanding what they meant. She really needs to get that deviated septum fixed, too. And to lose that Long Island Psychic hairdo.This was truly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. If the idea was to make the worst horror movie ever, based on every don't go in the woods movie ever, they did a fantastic job. Skip it when you run across it. Unless you want to marvel at how many of them are related. I swear, about the only time I've seen so many people with the same name was the one time I was forced to watch the Duggars.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Going to spend the weekend in the wilds of rural Pennsylvania a group of young people get the surprise of their lives in running in to the the crazed and LSD brain damaged lumberjack Cyrus who's been hunting the woods around "Dark Shade Creek" for the last 40 or so years. It's when the vacationers, Emma Vanessa Paige Chuck Doug & Spank, got to the place that all hell broke loose! Not just for them but all those in the vicinity of "Shade Creek" who in fact warned that they to stay away from it! The usual slasher on the loose movie taking place in the wilds and unaccessible, by cell phone, woods of Pennsylvania has Cyrus, who by then must be well into his 70's, do the kind of job on his more or less helpless and not to bright victims as good as Michael Myers or Jason with hockey mask did in the "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" movies did on theirs. There's the usual and predictable heroic of the hero in the flick who we can spot as soon as he or she appears on the screen. As well as the not so surprising surprise ending but the film hold up and keeps the both tension and horror going for it almost its entire 90 minutes of screen time. That's far more here then you can expect from like wise horror/slasher movies that cost a lot more and are far more well known as "Dark Shade Creek" is.One fact about the movie is how well made it was despite it's microscopic budget of a measly pocket change amount of $500.00! That was just enough to buy a video or camcorder and a couple of DVD disks or video tapes to make it! Yet it's as good if not better then movies of that type that cost millions and had well known actors and actresses in them!