Friday, October 29, 2021

Lurking Woods (2015)

Six friends from college decide to rent a cabin for a weekend to catch up. They don’t seem to have done much research into where they are staying.   The couple who own the place are dirty and coarse.  There is a mute who chops wood and looks dangerous.  Also the cabin is actually a house. When they see it, they say, “oh my god.”  For the life of me, I can’t tell if they think it’s great or terrible.  If you rented it and hadn’t seen it before, you would be terribly disappointed upon glimpsing the exterior.

There are three girls and three guys. They can’t decide who will hang out with who, so they set up this scavenger hunt where the guys have to follow clues to find the girls.  Why wouldn’t they want to have a say in who they spent the weekend with? Oh, turns out two of the girls have already picked out guys and rigged the game by providing them with the answers to the clues.  Then why are they even doing this? 

While on the scavenger hunt, someone starts killing members of the group. Could it be the creepy hitchhiker they saw earlier who just got out of jail? Could it be the mute guy with the ax? Could it be the unfriendly couple who own the place? Or are we in totally different territory with a killer that we haven’t met yet? Also these college students have fairly bad peripheral vision because people can sneak up on them when they’re in the open  

When I saw the title, all I could think is, so the woods are lurking?

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