Timber Falls (2007)

A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.

Director:

Tony Giglio

Writer:

Dan Kay

Stars:

Josh Randall, Brianna Brown, Nick Searcy

Cast

Cast overview:
Josh Randall	...	Mike
Brianna Brown	...	Sheryl
Nick Searcy	...	Clyde
Beth Broderick	...	Ida
Sascha Rosemann	...	Deacon
T.W. Leshner	...	Darryl
Branden Morgan	...	Brody (as Branden R. Morgan)
Ryan McGee	...	Lonnie
Carl Bressler	...	Sam
Debbie Jaffe	...	Evelyn
Suzanna Urszuly	...	Sarah
Ryan Wiik	...	James

Storyline

Mike and his girlfriend Sheryl travel from Virginia to Lake Kimbrabow State Park in West Virginia to spend the weekend hiking and camping in the woods. They ask for directions to the local guard that advises them to follow the Donner Trail or the Willow Creek Bridge; however, Mike meets the local Ida Forester in the crossroad that tells them that Timber Falls has magnificent landscapes and a wonderful waterfall and the couple decide to go to the place. They stumble with the troublemakers Brody, Darryl and Lonnie and Sheryl convinces Mike to get rid of the bullets for his revolver. They camp and in the morning Sheryl is abducted while bathing in a nearby lake. The desperate Mike seeks her, and finds a deranged fanatic religious family that needs them to procreate an offspring.

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Plot Keywords:

west virginia | voyeurism | voyeur | sexual desire | thong panties | 

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Taglines:

Prey for the victims

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody horror violence, torture, language and some sexuality

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 May 2008 (UK)

Also Known As:

Glave Padaju

Filming Locations:

Romania

Box Office

Budget:

$2,600,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$50,000, 14 December 2007

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$666,892, 12 April 2009

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rifkin-Eberts,Ascendant Pictures,A-Mark Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

[All goofs for this title are spoilers.]

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Quotes

Clyde: We're not violent people, Michael. It pains us to pain you.

User Reviews

If Timber Falls In An Empty Cinema, Does It Still Make A Sound?

When a young couple (Josh Randall and Brianna Brown) go hiking in West Virginia, they meet with a local woman named Ida (Beth Broderick) who recommends that they head along the trail to Timber Falls due to the beautiful waterfalls and gorgeous Appalachian views. Despite prior knowledge that the trail is the least frequently patrolled, Mike and Sheryl decide to follow Ida's advice and end up abducted, tortured and fighting for their lives against... oh, that would spoil the fun wouldn't it?

"Timber Falls" borrows a little bit from "Wrong Turn" (in fact, it was mistakenly marketed as "Wrong Turn 2" in Brazil), a little bit from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and a little bit from "Hostel". Unfortunately, it ends up less than the sum of its parts. The best scene in the entire movie comes in the opening segment which features a lot of blood and the rather gruesome way in which a young woman frees herself from imprisonment. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is nowhere near as bloody or horrific. With only one exception that I can think of, the camera subsequently shies away from showing most of what is happening.

The fact that it borrows from other movies isn't what causes "Timber Falls" to fail. The movie fails because the main characters aren't actually that interesting. They spend the first half of the movie making small talk or simply making out with one another, and the second half crying or shouting. You don't get much back-story either, other than some dialogue explaining that one of them is a nurse. Because of this, you can't really connect to either of them and ultimately don't care all that much about their fate.

It's a shame really because you get the feeling that director Tony Giglio has quite a lot of talent. The Romanian landscape (where the movie was actually filmed) is captured beautifully and he fully conveys the gloom of the location in which the two main characters are imprisoned.

As it is, "Timber Falls" isn't a bad movie. It just isn't a particularly great one either. The torture scenes aren't particularly interesting and there's absolutely nothing here that you haven't seen before in other horror movies of this ilk. If you've already watched "The Hills Have Eyes", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Wrong Turn" and all the other scary wilderness/torture-porn movies then this will be an okay rental until something better arrives. If not then try one of the aforementioned movies instead