Resurrection County [Import]

I didn't have high hopes for this film because of some reviews that said the violence was mostly off screen and I though ,ok that means no budget for effects.
I was pleasantly surprised and totally enthralled in this backwoods slasher/basher flick. I say basher because a lot of the violence has more to do with bashing peoples faces in that slashing them up.
Some of the acting was really really great and some was not bad.
If you were to take Red State combine it with Deliverance and toss in a little Timber falls you would get something like this but this had it's own flavor and stood on it's own.
The violence is fast' hard and in your face, no holds barred and no one is off limits,It is very bloody and the effects are good old fashioned makeup effects and not CGI,Very realistic too I must add.The camera work and film quality were amazing for a low budget film, again I was totally impressed.
Two couples go into redneck territory and have to kill in self defense and from there it's a fight for survival as the men try and save the women and vice verse.
Throw in the overly religious father whom is certain anything his family does in blessed and done in the name of God and you have a recipe for a great genre piece.

First sign of cheap. No English subtitles for people with hearing issues and to also make up for poor audio and actor enunciation.
Second sign of cheap. Lots of intro shots of newspaper clippings about missing people. Besides boring it's a standard cheap and quick writing trick to say people are dying.
Third sign of cheap. Lots of filler time devoted to people just driving a car on a country road and driving their ATVs on dirt while just tearing up the country side for effects. Lots of filler shots of the woods for those people who have never seen a tree before.
Fourth sign of cheap. You don't see the people dying - too much money for the props and CGI. You just see them afterwards - dead.
Fifth sign of cheap. Cheap knockoff predictable storyline of campers going into an area where the locals like to kill off the tourists. Usually it's dumb obnoxious teens or young adults but in this case they are dumb obnoxious adults whose personalities so match their eventual killers that the viewer ends up not caring who lives. The same, often used, torture scenes that have been copied so many times by writers that they are now more laughable than scary.
Sixth sign of cheap. Bad acting and even worse dialogue.
Seventh sign of cheap. Some 60 plus special thanks in the credits for production freebies in producing the film so that the studio can cut costs even further.

What makes this movie so terrifying is that all of the characters are so believable. Four young campers wander into the hold up of a religious cult of "southern boys" and their mentor in backwoods Arkansas. They are not welcome and have to fight to escape from the nightmare into which they have wandered.

I have never seen cold-blooded hate and brutality so well portrayed on screen. The viewer can empathize with the uncontrollable desire for revenge by each camper as they get even for atrocities.

There is no explainable reason why people act this way but they clearly do and through this movie you may find yourself feeling the same way.