Review of Willow Creek (2013) by Johnny T — 01 Oct 2014
As a satire and a horror film, this film fails on almost every front. It takes boring and lazy to a new level as we sit in a tent with the two main characters for twenty minutes. No, that isn't an exaggeration.
I counted. The reviews for this film are baffling me. This is just lazy, bad filmmaking at its worst. We start the film with a decent enough couple, following as they making the horror cliche pit stop.
They interview weird locals, get warned by dangerous hillbillies etc. etc. What the filmmaker was going for here was satire, but it just comes across as bad. The townsfolk's acting is especially bad.
Once the couple get into the woods it honestly gets worse. I mentioned the tent scene before, but thats not all. There is walking! Lots of walking! A film like Blair Witch can pull off that king of "nothing really happens" style because it was radically new when it came out.
The standards are different now. Apparently, the filmmaker (called Bobcat HARHAR) is quite beloved. One of his films is about performing oral sex on a dog so that should say everything there is to know about the kind of "artist" he is.
That being said, I found this film worthless. It is a failure.
This review of Willow Creek (2013) was written by Johnny T on 01 Oct 2014.
Willow Creek has generally received mixed reviews.
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