Sunday, November 11, 2012

Dead Wood (2007)

Four friends tramp into the woods for a weekend of camping and stumble into stupidity.  They find a trashed campsite with a tent filled with belongings, which they disagree as to whether it is long abandoned or not.

The next day, they find Ketsy at the campsite.  She says her boyfriend Rob disappeared after he left their tent to tend the fire.  The group takes her in and decides to go to the lake to cheer everyone up.

At the lake, Ketsy strips and hits the water.  Webb goes in after her while his girlfriend Larri stays on the shore.  Webb is an idiot.  They splash, laugh, and dunk each other until Webb suddenly disappears underwater.

Then Jess goes missing. The remaining two can't figure out that the common denominator in mysteriously missing people is Ketsy.

This movie is bad.  There's a dissonant campfire song, which is not the usual type of stuff people play around campfires.  They have the worst flashlights ever - if you drop them, they stop working.   There are subtitles to note which day it is, but there is no point of reference as to the days are significant.
river bank that is probably two feet high.  Next thing you know, they cut to Rob hanging off a cliff. Huh?  That is not the same location!

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