Tubi Thursday: Terror at Black Tree Forest (2010)

 A Film so generic that even its Title has since been reused!

I'm all for helping out Indy Filmmakers, but you have to make something interesting and unique.  I got this instead...

In 1970, a masked man- think The Town That Dreaded Sundown or Friday the 13th: Part 2/3- kills a man and has his way with the Wife.

He sees the kid and chases him, catching up and...

We're just cutting there, eh?

After what felt like 10 minutes of Credits over shots of the same Forest, we just spent nearly 10 minutes in, we meet our Heroes.

They are, say it with me, going Camping.

They hear about an escaped mental patient on the loose via Exposition Radio- Channel 102.5- but ignore it.

He's far away and back in the old Film Stock.

Come nightfall, the killer has dressed up like the guy at the beginning.

You see, he's the kid who survived...apparently and went crazy...apparently.

Now that it is nighttime, they tint things blue and my eyes hurt for the next 30 minutes.

To make a long story- even though the Film is about 50 minutes long without Credits- short, he kills pretty much everyone until we have one Girl left.

She runs, hides and...

...is grabbed by the killer.

She...does something.  Judge for yourself by this shot below.

We see her the next Morning and she says that the Killer is dead, but there's no body.
That's it.
The End.

Oy, where do I begin?

This thing is so stock that I need to make soup out of it!  There's nothing new here- at all.

It's a cliche Story with nothing Characters and nothing out of the ordinary.

By 2010, we've had literally hundreds of Slasher Films, including ones that satirize the Genre to various degrees of success.  Did we need another cheap, nothing-to-see-here Slasher?

There's no irony.
There's no twist.
There's barely any payoff.

It's not so good that you need to see it or so bad that you need to see it ironically.  The Director had, by this point, made 6 other Films- not that you could tell.  He's gone on to make- I s**t you not, 118 more in the ensuing 13 years.

This is a Film so bad that they can't do fake Newspapers right...

A Film made with no hook, no irony and no excitement.  Yea.