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Blackwoods [2002] One of those interior psycho-dramas that needs a last-reel selection
of 'what really happened' flashbacks to explain its twist. Callow youth
Matt [Patrick Muldoon] heads off for a weekend in the backwoods with
his new girlfriend Dawn [Keegan Connor Tracy] and keeps suffering from
flash visions of the aftermath of a serious car accident, even as people
along the way act strangely or react oddly to him. At a motel run by
a sleazy pervert [lazily-cast Clint Howard], Matt is attacked by an
axe-wielding maniac and Dawn takes off. The hero winds up tethered in
the basement of a dilapidated farm, having been lured there by Dawn
to stand trial for the death in a drunken car accident of the daughter
of a dirt-poor family. Sentenced to be hunted to death by the farmer's
three psychotic sons, he calls a friend for help [as he once used his
pull to get out of the accident charges] while the local Sheriff [Michael
Paré] puzzles out the mystery – which predictably turns
out to be that Matt is imagining most of the ordeal as a way of punishing
himself. It relies too much on bleary-cam flashes and guessable bits
of business, but the performances are mostly fine – and the interesting-looking
Tracy [who has a lot of credits like Final Destination 2 and
White Noise] does a lot with an unusual leading female
double role. Director / writer Uwe Boll went on to become a standing
joke with a series of useless computer game adaptations, but here shows
some ambition. First published in this form here. Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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