Worth a watch but lacks some substance 7/10

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2001)

Rented this movie because I had a two-for-one coupon at BB and thought what the heck, now I can evaluate it for myself. The fact that most of the film is spent in the woods with same leaveless trees scenery is a minus to it. However, the concentration of impending doom as you know something is going to happen ( much due to the common knowledge hyping) to the college kids makes the woods scenes repetitiveness tolerable. Probably the ending was worth all the dull woods mayhem. I watch movies for feelings they create in me and ideas I get from them. There was some kind of eerie completeness to the film, especially since the trio were alluded of their fate by townsfolk. What can someone expect for something that was made on a shoestring? I would like to see more newcomers produce films more in this genre, not necessarily of horror, but build up some suspense and then have something beyond their control seal their fate. In all, ignore hype and bashing of the film. You make of it what you like. I would advise though to not become a Trekkie for it. I do not know anything about the actors and other sundries about the film and care little too since I got the effect from it I wanted. Maybe some years from now it will pop up on TV and young kids will wonder what the movie was about as if they thought it was some obscure cheapie thriller. I thought that way about Night of The Living Dead when my brother made me watch on TV when I was seven years old back in the 70's. Little did I know it was a nascent cult classic. For time spent watching it and effect it gave me, I rate it a 7 out 10.