webbing92 This is not what I expected. This movie went deep into the heart of, not the beast outside of man, but the beast inside of man. The beast on the outside is a legendary creature, Bigfoot. The beast on the inside: fear, hate, dread.Now, one reason I loved this movie was because I LOWERED MY EXPECTATIONS!!!! Ding ding! That's the key to enjoying any Bigfoot movie now-a-days really. Just lower your expectations, and BAM... you'll love every second of this.My respect to the filmmakers.

gallifreyent Consider that this film was made for less than what other productions spend on catering, it is a decent effort from what is clearly a family business (just read all the end credits). The rudimentary special effects for the creature are balanced against a beautiful location and able camera work. The characters are not one-sided, and there's even a fair amount of character development as the story progresses. The relationships in this close-knit group of friends and relatives and a pet are the core of this story, and the external threats are secondary. The opening credits with the graphic novel style are a nice touch. The company might have been wiser to do all the creature scenes the same way. There are a number of strong spots where they went against the trite "standard creature vs. group of friends" clichés, and this deserves some respect above other entry-level productions. Examples: there's only one female, but she's regarded as a friend, not a target for the men. I would knock a point off that because she had to cook and call the men to dine as though she were the house mother. The "science nerd" is not an inept guy who can't socialize. In fact, this is a rare character who obviously works out and has a nice tat, truly swimming up-stream in horror movies. The "dumb guy" isn't dumb at all, just very open and unpretentious. The "scared guy" is not a total flake as in other films. The "leader" is calm and confident and actually knows how to get around outdoors. Spoiler: There's no dog violence, thank goodness! The last time I saw a horror flick with a dog that survived happily through the whole thing, it was an early film from The Asylum, and the production values were not even as good as for this film. There were a few very minor editing problems where the story jumped, but later conversations filled in the missing information. Pacing was also uneven. Still, this is an ambitious film by so many newcomers, and I don't think it deserves a bashing. One reviewer surely didn't see the same film I did, else he would not have said it was about teenagers. Hopefully, any future projects will have better research and props. One does not have to go to Honduras or anywhere else outside the US to get a nice machete, and it seems visually odd that the person who has that cannon of a sidearm and some large blades would not also have a more imposing rifle. The sight of burly men holding tiny rifles is nearly comical, and that includes the rude men who claimed to own the land. I think this company did a passing job, and I hope they will learn from the experience and give us something more in the future.

despodleous-394-911081 1. I think the characters' tattoos were done with Sharpie pens. 2. Pretty much the whole movie was filmed in the daytime -- so they all went to bed around 5 PM, or so (maybe earlier) -- I am guessing it was so that they could film the whole thing in a few hours. 3. Porno movies have better acting... Hell, porno movies have better PROPS(they used the same rifle for two different characters). During target practice they shot a rifle at FULL beer bottles... oh, and the rifle's scope cap was on for some of the target practice. Rather than re-shoot the scene with the scope cap off, they just made sure that it was off for the last guy practicing with the rifle. Good thing they caught that one. 4. The "bad" guy is an actor dressed up in a big furry suit. A yeti or big-foot kind of thing, except this one throws actual punches. Seriously. Uppercuts, roundhouses, jabs... none of that normal slashing or clawing one might expect. 5. At some point the campers return to find their friend impaled on what is perhaps a truck's tailpipe... everyone gets upset yet no one actually asks what happened or why... they bury him, regardless, in a hole big enough for a pet garter snake. 6. If you watch this movie and are disappointed, it's your own fault. Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Right, well "Lost Woods" starts off as your average late teenage camping movie far, far out in the woods. Of course, in ideal setting for a horror or slasher movie. And the movie was shot in a great way, with lots of really nice shots in the forest. But then it all went downhill.The movie was so amazingly slow in progressing, that I actually dozed off twice within the first half of the movie. Yeah, it was that uneventful and dull. But once you get past the halfway marker of the movie's length, then finally the movie picks up pace. Then you also get to see the creature.And speaking of the creature. Are you kidding me? A man in a furry suit and with blueish-glowing eyes? Yeah, alright, it was oh-so-scary (hope you can see the sarcasm oozing off the words here). Sure it was the creature from the cover of the movie, but I had expected something else, not just some pumped-up sasquatch wanna-be man in a furry suit. That was such an eyesore. It was fast at foot, agile and quite adept at running, despite looking as big as a bear. And when it attacked people, it was throwing punches at them like a pro boxer. Wait, what? Yeah, it was jabbing and punching at the people it attacked. And it also had unbelievable jumping abilities, managing to jump clear over a rather wide chasm."Lost Woods" has a relatively small list of people on the casting roster, and the people in the movie actually did good enough jobs, so it wasn't here that the movie was haltering. No, it was in its slow pace and stupid story - and the fuzzy ewok on steroids.This movie was rather disappointing and there were no scare moments at all in the movie, unless you consider dozing off a couple of times scary.The worst part of "Lost Woods" had got to be the transformation scene at the ending of the movie. That was just so cheesy. And, oh dear God, how could they have come up with that and said to themselves 'yeah, that seems possible'? I was shaking my head in disbelief and laughing so hard here.Now, if you like monster movies, scary movies, thrillers, etc. then "Lost Woods" is perhaps not the best of choices. What would make the movie worth watching is the cinematography, because there really was some nice camera work and great shots in the forest in the movie. Sadly, however, that wasn't enough to make the movie interesting for me.This is a movie that will never make it for a second watching in my lifetime, it just wasn't worth the effort.