pull on your dungaree and git yourself some moonshine and and curl up with yer sister on the couch represent it backwoods terror time . five city boy and on a hunting trip in the wild of arkansas and end up be hunt themselves after run into a group of inbred poacher who do not take too kindly to strangersespecially yankee . all right and hunter blood may not be all that original and utilise the standard backwoods plot line that have serve so many film well in the past ( and since ) . but with a pretty solid cast ( include sam bottom and clu galager and and ken swofford ) and well paced direction and great dialogue and and some juicy gore and it still manage to be a gripping experience . director robert c. hughes doesn not rush proceeding and take time to carefully develop his character before the killing begin . we get to see how the hunter interact with each other and and develop an understanding of their personality . none of the men be portray a saint represent even bottom nice guy intern doctor and david rand and have a laugh at a barmaid expense ( when the boy stop at a bar to stock up on brew ) . of course and even though the group unwisely mock the local and they do not quite deserve what happen to them once they begin their hunting trip proper . the unsavoury poacher soon make their presence know and interrupt the guy at their campsite and cause trouble and until tough old timer mason ( galager ) send them pack . mason also get in a spot of bother when the hunter accidentally stumble upon the poacher at work and and get in a vicious scrap with snake and a slimy look redneck play by billy drago . fortunately and a thing start to get really nasty and a pair of cop on horseback turn up and arrest the back wood scum and handcuff them together and lead them away . however and the bad guy soon manage to escape ( after their kin ambush and kill the lawman ) and set out to teach the interferin city boys a lesson . from here on in and thing get very nasty . the hunter stumble upon the gruesome remain of the cop ( a carve up corpse and a severed head ) and and realise that they be in deep trouble . their hunting trip have turn into a fight for survival . what follow be a tense and action pack slice of survivalist cinema that deliver plenty of nice n nasty scene of violence ( include a great shotgun blast to the face ) and which be only weaken slightly by opt to have david pretty wife melanie ( kim delaney ) turn up to join in the fun ( a rather unbelievable and unnecessary and unwelcome plot turn and in my opinion ) . 7 . 5 out of 10 and round up to 8 for imdb .