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| John Friedrich | ... | Dennis Zorich | |
| Adrian Zmed | ... | Marco Cerone | |
| Ernest Harden Jr. | ... | Nathaniel Hines | |
| Lewis Smith | ... | Boone | |
| Rachel Ward | ... | Margaret | |
| Daryl Hannah | ... | Windy Morgan | |
| Akosua Busia | ... | Vanessa | |
| Joe Pantoliano | ... | Eggar | |
| Mark Metcalf | ... | Mike | |
| Cindy Harrell | ... | Melanie | |
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Irene Sanders | ... | Sammie |
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Richard Jacobs | ... | Mr. Morgan |
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Donna Pinder | ... | Mrs. Morgan |
| Jim Youngs | ... | Jim | |
| Lori Butler | ... | Lori (as Lori Lee Butler) | |
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A group of rangers go camping on unfamiliar forest grounds. All is well until the group members start getting picked off by a cunning, tactical, malevolent, killer in the woods.
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28 October 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Carnivore See more »Filming Locations:
Crescent City, California, USACompany Credits
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Director Andrew Davis also shot this film. He attributed his cinematographer credit to a pseudonym in order to avoid problems with the union. See more »Goofs
When the bus is seen on the bridge alone, you can tell it is daylight, when it is supposed to be dark. See more »Quotes
Dennis Zorich: If you people want to survive, you better start looking and thinking like the forest.See more »
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The UK cinema release (as "Campsite Massacre") was uncut. The video version (as "Final Terror") was cut by 27 secs with edits to the repeated stabbing of Mike's back during the double murder in the forest. See more »On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free!
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Some forest workers & friends camp out in the coastal Redwoods of Northern California, but there's a legend about an escaped female mental patient and her deranged son born of rape.
"The Final Terror" (1983) was shot in the Redwoods in late summer 1981 with only four crewmembers. As my title blurb suggests, it's a meshing of "Deliverance" (1972) and "Friday the 13th." The sylvan locations are outstanding, the antagonist is well realized and the no-name cast is interesting and diverse. Unfortunately the script failed to develop actual personalities, plus too many of them are unconvincingly unlikable. We don't know these people nor do we care about 'em.
Thankfully, the film improves in the second half as it becomes a survival-in-the-woods tale with a couple original elements, like the way the prey (try to) become the hunters.
The movie was shelved for over two years because the producers couldn't find a distributor. Since the flick only featured three deaths, the opening sequence with the couple getting killed was shot in order to increase its chances of obtaining a distributor. Yet this was done without the director's approval, so the producer had to pay a fee with some of it coming from the director's wedding at the time. Interestingly, this prologue is one of the more compelling parts of the movie and is highlighted by the only female really worth noting, physically speaking. I'm not saying the other ladies were bad, just that the director evidently didn't know how to capture the fairer sex on film.
Speaking of which, Daryl Hannah (Wendy) and Rachel Ward (Margaret) were unknowns at the time, but moved on to more proficient productions. So did Adrian Zmed (Marco Cerone), but less impressively so.
The film runs 1 hour, 22 minutes, and was shot at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in extreme Northern California and the Crescent City area.
GRADE: C+