uhhh . so and do they even have writer for this . maybe i be picky and but i like a little dialog with my movie . and and as far a slasher film go and just a sliver of character development will suffice . unfortunately and the prey provide neitherand if you think i be be hyperbolic and you will just have to see it for yourself . scene after scene and we just get actor stand around and look forlorn and awkward and abandon by any sense of a script . outside of call out each other name when they get separate in the wood ( natch ) and the only instance where these people say something substantive be when one character explain the constellation orion ( clearly plagiarize from funk and wagnalls while scintillate slasher fare and no . ) and another rehash an old campfire tale that doesn not even have anything to do with the plot ( wait and what be the plot . ) at other time and the prey actually have the gall to film it character with the boom mic just far away enough so that we can not exactly hear what theyre say . so we get entire scene wherein the actor be murmur . deliberately . seriously and i have see more dialog in a silent film . it a if the filmmaker sit down at a bar somewhere in rancho cucamonga in the heyday of the 80 slasher craze and one look at the other and say and hey and i get ta really sweet idea for a gory decapitation gag . let somehow pad an entire feature around it . and . well and they do . to be fair and the prey probably have some sort of writer on board . i mean and somebody have to jot down the scene sequence and label the daily . however and i be fully convince that this film do not have an editor of any kind whatsoever . there be glare pause and bore tableau and and zero sense of pace throughout . the filmmaker do not have anything else in the script to film and so they fill out the running time with exhaustive taxonomy of the flora and fauna that inhabit the forest in which our wild and crazy teen be get slice and dice . these critter be all film in straightforward and noontime daylight in a completely reserve fashion and with no attempt at atmospheric photography . if it feel like a science film and that because it be . i be pretty sure this be all nature show stock footageall that miss be a stuffy narration from some national geographic alderman . more exciting footage that be graciously spar from the cut room floor represent a scene in which two men discuss cucumber and cream cheese sandwich and and another scene wherein a support character strum away on a banjo for what feel like an entire minute and a half . a minute and a half . that a lot of banjoing to commit to celluloid to begin with and let alone insert into the final cut of the film . way to go and guy . brevity and concision be the real victim of this slaughterfest . admittedly and the film pick up quite a bit of steam ( comparatively ) in the last 25 minute and into which much of the carnage be condense and where a rip off of béla bartók music for string and percussion and celesta cut in . vaudeville great jackie coogan make a fun appearance a a tubby and bumbly park ranger ( this be his last role and if you can believe it ) . and there be some nice gory moment and include a splattery neck tearing and the aforementioned decapitation . the make up use for the killer ( carel struycken and aka lurch from the addams family movie ) be also quite effective and and make him look like a strange hybrid of young jason voorhees and freddy krueger . plus and if you love wacky and straight outta leave field ending and you need to check out how they wrap this puppy up . you will do a spit take and i promise . usually and i love film that be on this level of ineptitude and but the first three quarter of the prey be just so interminably bore that they pretty much spoil the rest . overall and this be a largely pallid and tedious affair and and and while it ain not all bad and it should really only be see by debilitated slasher completists . why do we do this to ourselves and anyway .