Highest-Rated Movies about 'Backwoods'

Captain Fantastic (2016), Evil Dead II (1987), Cape Fear (1962), Deliverance (1972), All the King's Men (1949), Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), Southern Comfort (1981), Songcatcher (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Backwoods movies.

#18. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Storyline: After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl, moves in with her eccentric aunt Martha, alongside her protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders? The disclosure of the murderer's identity is one of the most shocking climaxes in the history of American cinema.

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, male full frontal nudity, pervert, pedophile, female serial killer, sexual perversion, murder of a nude woman ...

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#19. Pumpkinhead (1988)

Storyline: After a group of bikers accidentally murder a young boy named Billy Harley his father Ed harley is devastated and the only thing he wants is revenge and goes to an old woman who is said to be a witch and conjures a demonic creature known as pumpkin head and with Revenge on his Mind unleashes him upon the bikers.

Plot Keywords: demon, vengeance, monster, fire, falling from height, dog, death of title character ...

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#20. Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)

Storyline: Months after Alice beheaded psycho killer/mother Pamela Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake, survivor Alice is still traumatized because of the murders. But there is one problem: Mrs. Voorhees' son Jason never drowned and died, so he saw Alice behead Mrs. Voorhees. Jason finds Alice soon and murders her. Five years later, a camp counselor-in-training program begins at Packanack Lodge, right near Camp Crystal Lake. As teenagers in the program start snooping around Camp Crystal Lake, they start getting killed violently one by one.

Plot Keywords: pitchfork, ice pick, slasher, masked villain, terror, maniac, homicidal maniac ...

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#21. The Taking (2014)

Storyline: What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.

Plot Keywords: fake documentary, found footage, digital camera, violence, self injury, injury, illness ...

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#22. Friday the 13th: Part III (1982)

Storyline: Jason Voorhees, having barely survived a wound to his shoulder from his own machete, is back to revenge on all that visit "his" woods. A new group of friends come over to party at an area close to the campsite. This time, Jason will be stronger than ever, and getting a hockey mask from one of those friends.

Plot Keywords: friday the thirteenth, impalement, torso cut in half, biker gang, dismemberment, sliced in two, grindhouse film ...

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#23. Cabin Fever (2002)

Storyline: The college friends Paul, Karen, Bert, Marcy and Jeff rent an isolated cabin in the woods to spend a week together. When they arrive, a man contaminated with a weird disease asks for help to them, but they get in panic and burn the man, who falls in the water reservoir and dies. The whole group, except Karen, makes a pact of drinking only beer along the week without knowing where the dead body is. When Karen drinks tap water and gets the disease, the group begins their journey to hell.

Plot Keywords: sex scene, woman on top, killed with a hammer, hit with a hammer, raft, corpse, dumb cop ...

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#24. Eaten Alive (1976)

Storyline: Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf. He has a crocodile conveniently placed on the other side of the hotel's front porch railing. The croc will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests of the hotel find out soon enough. A reformed hooker, an unlucky family, and the father and sister of the hooker all suffer various rates of attrition as Judd tries to implement damage control.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: hixploitation, slasher, alligator, tourist, brothel, sickle, prostitute ...

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#25. In Fear (2013)

Storyline: Tom and Lucy are both happy young adults eager to set out on their first weekend getaway as a couple. They set off for a planned stay at a remote hotel but quickly find themselves getting lost in a maze of backwoods roads. However they soon discover that they are at the mercies of an unknown tormentor that is eager to take advantage of their vulnerability and distance from civilization.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: forest, running out of gas, serial killer, screaming in pain, abandoned hotel, bad guy, chase ...

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#26. Timber Falls (2007)

Storyline: Mike and his girlfriend Sheryl travel from Virginia to Lake Kimbrabow State Park in West Virginia to spend the weekend hiking and camping in the woods. They ask for directions to the local guard that advises them to follow the Donner Trail or the Willow Creek Bridge; however, Mike meets the local Ida Forester in the crossroad that tells them that Timber Falls has magnificent landscapes and a wonderful waterfall and the couple decide to go to the place. They stumble with the troublemakers Brody, Darryl and Lonnie and Sheryl convinces Mike to get rid of the bullets for his revolver. They camp and in the morning Sheryl is abducted while bathing in a nearby lake. The desperate Mike seeks her, and finds a deranged fanatic religious family that needs them to procreate an offspring.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: west virginia, attempted rape, female nudity, cleavage, scantily clad female, breasts, female frontal nudity ...

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#28. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Storyline: Five years after killing the goalie hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis has grown up in various mental hospitals unable to get over the nightmares about Jason's return. When Tommy is sent to a rural halfway house in New Jersey for mentally disturbed teenagers, a series of grisly murders begin anew as another hockey-masked killer begins killing off all people at and around the residence. Has Jason returned from the dead to re-start his killing spree? Has Tommy decided to take over the reign of Jason, or has someone else?

Plot Keywords: grindhouse film, american horror, child in jeopardy, psychopathic murderer, deeply disturbed person, sadistic killer, stabbed in the leg ...

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