Killing Ground

Too cookie cutter/run of the mill for my liking. Lots of plot build without much reward.

It ended abruptly and needed two more sentences of dialog and a flash in the pediatric ward to show the kid to finish it off. That being said, I thought it was a good hunter-hunted movie where the women outshine the men in terms of grit.

This movie is really slow and boring. It takes 45 minutes (out of 88 minutes) to even get to get to the main plot. The first 45 is not very interesting as nothing happens. We learn there are 2 sets of characters, one that is going on a camping trip in the present and the other that was on a camping trip in the same area a short time before. Most of what would be scary or suspenseful happens during a time jump that you never see. With scary things implied as you see the aftermath. For example, you see a family being tied up and walking off into the woods, the next shot shows them lying down or tied to a tree with the youngest daughter bleeding between her legs from the back. So it implies a lot of horrible things happened to the family. Then it shows a few minutes of them playing games by shooting at the family. The rest of the 20 minutes left in the movie at this point is a cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys stalking the two campers and a baby, with the campers trying to outrun and survive. If this had been a short like 30 minutes, it would have been fine the way it was filmed. The horror is implied, we know who the bad guys are, we hope the campers survive and the bad guys get what's coming to them. But instead, you get so bored you lose interest in the plot and don't really care what happens just that something is happening. The acting in the film overall is fine. The main problem is it doesn't add anything to the genre or this type of survive in the woods against killers movies. If anything it shows a lot less than the standard film would. Since it is rated TV-MA, I believe the original release of the film was Not Rated, there is no reason to have everything happen off-camera. It is pg-13 at best. I don't know how it got 4 skull ratings, but I guess people like boring movies because it might have one moment or scene that they found scary. But one scene a good movie does not make. I didn't find it scary or suspenseful at all. I will say the bad guys are portrayed well and make you really hate them. But that is pretty easy to do when they are basically psychos that are killing and raping at random. Skip this film and watch Eden Lake instead. That is a much better film and I don't see the comparison other than it involves woods and killers in the woods chasing after a couple. But other than that basic description they are not at all the same. There are a lot better horror movies from Australia that are worth your time this is not one of them. There are better films that take place in the woods. This movie gets 2 skulls because it isn't terrible like some films on Shudder, looking at You Skinamarink, and some other unwatchably bad or boring movies. But I also wouldn't recommend it as a good movie. If this movie had a faster pacing and more suspenseful moments instead of taking 45-50 minutes out of 80 to get interesting. I would have given it 3 skulls. Instead, we got 1 hour and 18 minutes of boredom with 10 minutes of suspense and interesting plot.

Doggie got the baby

Recycled plot, just generally boring. Got pretty good in the middle but totally fizzled out for me. The last act was pretty bad.