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For Chelsea's (Chelsea
Rendon) birthday party, she and her friends go on a trip to Jesse's
(José
Julián) house deep in the woods to do some heavy partying including
hard liquer and drugs undisturbed ... but somehow the party quickly falls
apart when Chelsea learns her boyfriend Gabe
(Jordan
Diambrini) had an affair with the hottie in their midst, Celeste (Catherine
Toribio) while Jule (Kade Wise) is too fixated on getting into
Celeste's panties to act at all like a human being and innocent Fernanda
(Jeanette Samano) proves to be quite a bit of a party pooper. But after a
big row, Celeste sets off to walk home alone, the rest of the gang find
out their car has broken down, and it's about then people start to die,
too, and mostly violently. And it's about then those of our kids still alive
start to realize there might be someone with lethal tendencies after them, one who might have
access to the house they're at ... The always dependable Danny Trejo
plays the local Sheriff. So ok, Murder in the Woods is a
slasher movie and doesn't try to hide it, so you better not expect the
re-invention of the wheel. But while the film at first follows the
standard formula almost a bit too closely, it really picks up steam the
longer it goes and the longer it refuses to reveal the identity of the
killer - which creates tension all by itself and really sucks one into the
story of the film. And ultimately, the film delivers on its promise in
heaps, culminating in a very tight finale with all the suspense and shocks
in their right places and plenty of gore as well. Very cool genre
entertainment!
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