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Wrong Turn(2021)

1h 50min | Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 437 votes)

Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.

Directed by Mike P. Nelson - With Charlotte Vega, Bill Sage, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Daisy Head, Matthew Modine, ...

The Gift(2000)

3.2/5 (with 496 votes)

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.

Spell(2020)

1h 31min | Thriller, Horror, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 170 votes)

A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the ancient remedies.

In the Forest(2022)

1h 23min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Helen and her daughter Emily reluctantly accompany Helen’s father Stan on a family camping trip, driving deep into the forest for a real outdoors experience, only to have angry landowner Howard arrive and force them to leave. When their RV gets stuck, Helen decides to seek help but discovers a disturbing secret on the man’s property. She must then fight to protect her family and make it out of the forest alive before being hunted down.

Backwoods(2008)

1h 25min | Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
2.3/5 (with 20 votes)

A group of friends embark on a camping trip for a ten-year high school reunion. Their celebration soon turns into a battle for survival when they realize that the locals, who are not what they seem, are hunting them down.

Directed by Martin Jay Weiss - With Ryan Merriman

Midnighters(2017)

1h 34min | Thriller, Horror
2.9/5 (with 29 votes)

Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

Directed by Julius Ramsay

Welcome to Willits(2016)

1h 22min | Horror
2.0/5 (with 18 votes)

Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by mysterious creatures that have plagued them for years. When a local pot farmer is caught up with a wayward group of campers the situation quickly escalates into total carnage.

Directed by Trevor Ryan

Back Roads(2019)

1h 41min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.

Directed by Alex Pettyfer

Tobacco Road(1941)

1h 24min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Shallow Grave(1987)

1h 30min | Horror, Drama
2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Passing through a small Georgia town on their way to Florida, four young college girls witness a woman murdered. They try to escape before he murders them, too. But no one will believe them.

Where the Lilies Bloom(1974)

1h 38min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A family of children decide not to tell anyone their father has died, and to live on their own in the backwoods of rural North Carolina. If the state finds out they are on their own, they will be split up and sent to live in foster homes.

Plank Face(2016)

1h 31min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A man is taken captive by a feral family in the deep woods. They are determined to transform him, body and mind, into one of their own -- whether he likes it or not.

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Sudden Fury(1975)

1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Fred is a psychotic entrepreneur who hopes to convince his wife Janet to invest in a shady land deal. The wife refuses, and the couple continue their heated argument while driving through the Ontario backwoods. When their car crashes, Janet is seriously injured, but Fred leaves the scene, hoping that his wife won't last the night.

Cannibal Diner(2012)

1h 15min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
1.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A group of models find themselves trapped in a factory inhabited by a cannibalistic degenerated family.

Directed by Frank W. Montag - With Violetta Schurawlow

Trapped(1982)

2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to escape the area while the killer sets out to eliminate the witnesses who can tie him to the murder.

Directed by William Fruet - With Henry Silva

Poor Pretty Eddie(1975)

1h 25min | Horror, Drama
2.4/5 (with 12 votes)

A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a cocksure, volatile country singer.

Directed by Richard Robinson, David Worth - With Leslie Uggams

Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale(1986)

1h 11min | Comedy, Animation
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats", (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip ). Questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the All Black selectors at Saturdays rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Cooch's prize stag from the depths of Blackwater station, home of the Murphy's, their vicious dogs and deadly croco-pigs? All this and more will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen.

Directed by Murray Ball

Midnight(1982)

1h 31min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A young woman fleeing her sexually abusive stepfather hitches a ride with two young men, but the three soon find themselves at the mercy of a backwoods Satanic cult.

Directed by John A. Russo

Preacherman(1971)

1h 27min | Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Phony backwoods preacher Amos T. Huxley stays in a small North Carolina town long enough to fleece his congregation, swindle the profits from a moonshine still, and seduce dumb blonde Mary Lou. Mary Lou's ex-boyfriend becomes suspicious of the preacher and gets the local police to investigate his actions.

Directed by Al Viola - With Ilene Kristen

The Evil Offspring(2009)

1h 23min | Horror, Crime
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Two outwardly kindly farmers punish wandering sinners by feeding them to hideous demons they keep locked up in the barn. A mischievous hitchhiker is playing some malevolent road games. When a group of notorious criminals seek refuge in Pa and Nan's barn, they unleash a force of evil powerful enough to destroy a small town.

Melanie(1982)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother. In the process, she falls in love with a struggling musician who helps her cause.

Whiskey Mountain(1977)

1h 35min | Horror, Adventure
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A group of motorcyclists on a "treasure hunt" are terrorized by a gang of murderous psychopaths.

Directed by William Grefe

Beast No More(2019)

1h 24min | Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A young biologist, Mary Jane, who focuses on lepidoptery (the study of moths and butterflies), doesn't have the perfect life; she does however have what she considers the perfect son. Tragedy strikes and Mary Jane's world is disturbingly turned upside down. Fleeing the troubled "real world" she embarks upon a solitary bush project. In the isolated and surreal landscape Mary Jane starts experiencing strange phenomena. The opportunity to be a mother again presents itself, only it comes at a cost for Mary Jane and what's left of her family.

Gator Bait 2: Cajun Justice(1988)

1h 35min | Action
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

A sweet city girl initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana swamp by her good-natured Cajun husband "Big T". She ends up putting her newly acquired survival skills to good use when she is kidnapped by Big T's chief rival Leroy and his swarthy, brutish family as part of an ongoing feud.

Directed by Beverly Sebastian

Savages(1974)

1h 14min | TV Movie, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Ben Campbell, a 22 year old gas station attendant in a small desert town, is looking to make some extra money. He is surprised when Madec, a wealthy lawyer, asks him to be his guide on a hunting trip in the desert. When Madec accidentally shoots a prospector, he is fearful of what it will do his reputation and decides to eliminate the only witness, Ben, who is forced to go on the run. In addition to being hunted by Madec, Ben must also contend with the harsh desert elements. But if he does make it back to town alive, will anyone believe his story?

Directed by Lee H. Katzin - With Andy Griffith

Abducted II: The Reunion(1994)

1h 32min | Horror, Action, Drama
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

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Rootwood(2019)

1h 23min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
1.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Rootwood follows two students who host ‘The Spooky Hour’, a podcast about paranormal phenomena and urban legends. When they are hired by a Hollywood film producer to shoot a horror documentary about the curse of The Wooden Devil, they smell their chance to become famous. Together, with their friend, they enter Rootwood Forest and investigate the area to find out the truth about The Wooden Devil and his victims.

Chubby Killer: The Anthology(2013)

8min | Comedy, Horror
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Scary tales featuring bloodthirsty supernatural forces, a séance gone wrong and bloodthirsty psycho killers.

The Sporting Club(1971)

1h 47min | Comedy
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.

Directed by Larry Peerce - With Robert Fields

Ember in the Woods(2023)

Connie's plans to take her niece Shayna for a cabin getaway in the deep woods are spoiled when her dark past rears its ugly head. She travels there alone and encounters a troubled young woman who has been stranded in the wilderness.

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