Woodland Creatures Unite!

Rating: 10/10 (4 May 2003)

Five college friends take a vacation from school in a abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods. Weird happenings and a phantom force plague the students once they stumble across the Book of the Dead. It seems that the previous tenant of the cabin was a man working on translating the book. His translation opens a doorway unleashing a force that they may not survive from. This film was shot on less than a shoestring. What we are given is an amazing film that builds slow to a wicked ending and a cult status that is second to none. This film was a labor of love by all those who worked on it. It may look `amateurish' but that is part of its' charm. The camerawork is awesome the effects are awesome. The ending is a killer setpiece. I couldn't imagine this film made any better than it was. True, if you pay close attention the continuity is pretty bad. But since the film was shot over a two year period so it is easy to see why these problems would happen. I rate this as a classic. 10/10