476. Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight. Well, I loved it! I mean the title is a total lie, everyone sleeps the night this takes place, well, except for two, but we will get back to them later. The main premise is this, a bunch of tech addicted teenagers are sent off to a camp called Adrenaline to detox. We follow a smaller group comprised of: Hot girl, hot guy, gay guy, fat nerd video game guy, the girl that doesn't quite fit in with the rest and in the lead an outdoorsy looking counselor, and off they go for a several days long journey into the woods, tech free. As nighttime falls and they start to set up their tents and stuff things seem to be going rather well... until... light spoilers ahead... Hot guy can't sleep, so he heads down to the lake to, oh no, to use his forbidden cell phone he snuck in, and even worse... a marijuana cigarette!! Suddenly out of the darkness he's startled by Hot girl, she partakes in the marijuana cigarette as well, and through some casual flirting she discovers Hot guy is a virgin! So, she quickly remedies that and heads back off to her tent. Hot guy now with a smile on his face settles down in his sleeping bag, when he's startled once again, only this time it's a local man, a large grotesque local man, who, in a very Jason Voorhees-esque move, picks up the sleeping bag and slams it against a tree and drags the body away. The next morning when the gang discovers Hot guy missing and start freaking out, Hot girl confesses to their deed and they go to check things out. That is when, Girl who doesn't quite fit in with the others notices blood on a tree, and thus begins the race out of the woods to stay alive!! First half of the movie has definite Friday the 13th vibes. But this one adds a little something extra to the backstory of the killer, which I enjoyed as an interesting little twist to a familiar tale. The soundtrack and the cinematography in this one is really great. The Girl who doesn't quite fit in with the others, Zosia, was great. Earlier on, Fat Nerd guy, Jurek, compares her to Sarah Connor at one point and as the movie goes on the comparisons keep growing. Jurek also seems to be a fan of the horror movie genre, much like Randy from Scream, he seems to aware of the rules they are breaking if they were in a horror movie. So if you put Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a bit of X-Files: 'Home' into a blender, you'd get something like this. A super fun gory slasher flick!! Filmbufftim on FB
Review of Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
