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It's been a year now since Jack (Jason Liquori) has quit his job with
Brad's (Brewier Welch) lumbering company, mainly over genetic experiments
Brad has performed on the trees - but now Brad needs him back, because his
top scientist Jill (Debbie Rochon) has gone missing in his woods ... and
Jill also happens to be Jack's ex-wife he has never seized to love. So
Jack and Brad head off into these woods, to soon feel something's terribly
wrong, but they can't put their finger on it. Then they meet two campers
(Michelle Prenez, Jennifer Wenger) who tell them they've been attacked by
leaves, and while Jack does take them seriously, Brad calls one of his
guards to secretly off them (without Jack's knowledge of course) ... but
before the guard can do his job he's attacked by ... leaves, vines and
tree branches. The girls try to flee, but while the forest apparently has
no interest in killing them, it leads them around in circles and won't let
them leave. Having learned the DNA of the trees of this forest have
actually been crossed with insect DNA, Jack teams up with entymologist
Sheila (Christina Daoust) to investigate further, and the two of them make
one gruesome discovery after another - and suddenly, the two of them, the
two camping girls and Brad all form an unlikely alliance of people on the
run from a forest gone wild ... Now even if my synopsis might
make it sound like that, Lumber vs Jack is not some serious piece
of eco-horror ... rather it's a film that lives up to the promise of its
slightly campy title, in a good way: Taking cue from grindhouse flicks of
the creature feature variety, the with the film playing it mostly staight
but with tongue firmly in cheek at the same time, it avoids drowning its
audience in self-irony, instead presenting the viewer with fun genre
entertainment, in the context of which even the rather low-fi practical
effects work very well, being a fun reminder of yesterday's monster
flicks. Add to that a cast in on the joke but playing it straight, a
straightforward directorial effort that keeps things moving, and a
hilarious "promise" of a sequel (that might never be), and at
least the average genre enthusiast will find plenty to enjoy.
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