OK, every genre fan worth their salt knows about the “victim pool.” These are the poor souls that end up in the haunted house, or the abandoned insane asylum, or lost in the woods (you name, you’ve seen it) and are picked off one by one by some creature, or serial killer. A corollary to this is, usually, the fun of guessing who “the final girl” will be … it’s a tried and true formula for serving up scares.
Director John Migliore, who as a filmmaker, has given us Poltergeist Encounters, Exorcism of the Dead and The Friday Night Death Slot, turns this on its head as the victim pool consists of inbred, backwoods cannibals. Who do you root for among that lot?
They catch and cage hikers and campers who wander into “their” forest home. After properly being “seasoned,” these hapless souls are butchered and eaten. However, one escapes and through some “nature magic” dies and is resurrected as a Swamp Thing-like creature that begins hunting down and killing the inbred, backwoods cannibals. Perfect for the Halloween season!!
Bonus goodies include two featurettes — “Behind the Scenes” and “The Musings of Harriet” — and a promotional cartoon.
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