Back Woods / Movie

Starring:Jim Edberg, Gregg Elder, Miano Ferrari, Mara Goldman, David C. Hayes, Patrick Hazen, David Lawrence, Mangina, Joe Roberts (VI), Jay Roma, Anna Shemeikka, Mike Thallemer, Dr. Yuj Wang, The Widowmaker
Studio: Spectrum Entertain
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Nice Calm Entertainment
Excellent movie with great values
What the heck is the password?
One of the best Winnie the Pooh movies!
If the TV is already your sitter, you've got nothing to lose

Piglet's Big Movie
Starring: John Fiedler , Jim Cummings , Andre Stojka , Kath Soucie , and Nikita Hopkins
Director: Francis Glebas
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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ASIN: B00009L4S2
Release Date: 2003-07-29

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Disney once again plunders the delightful Winnie-the-Pooh books for an animated movie, this one centered around the wee and insecure Piglet. Feeling unappreciated by his friends, Piglet wanders off into the Hundred Acre Wood; in his absence, Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, and Rabbit reminisce about various adventures (including when Kanga and her baby Roo first arrived in their midst, and building a house for Eeyore) and begin to recognize Piglet's crucial contribution to their lives. Unfortunately for moviegoers, the gentle but sly whimsy of A.A. Milne's books has been turned into pure saccharine, which isn't helped by mediocre animation and appallingly bland songs (by Carly Simon, of all people). Even the most Pooh-worshipping kids are likely to find Piglet's Big Movie to be pretty small potatoes. --Bret Fetzer

Description

Straight from theaters, it's Piglet's very first movie . . . and a BIG one at that! In the grand tradition of Winnie the Pooh animated features, you'll delight in PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE, a wonderful story of friendship, fun, and appreciation in which Pooh and the gang learn it doesn't take somebody big to do big things! Piglet disappears into the Hundred Acre Wood after hearing he is "just too small" to help with the gang's hunny-gathering scheme. Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, and the others "think, think, think" and decide to use Piglet's scrapbook of memories to find him. Soon, they realize just how big a part Piglet plays in their many adventures together. Filled with adventure, laughter, and heart, and five new songs, PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE is endearing fun for all ages -- sure to charm everyone in the entire family!

Customer Reviews:

Nice Calm Entertainment.......2007-05-07

My five year old son loves this movie! I really like that he is amused by such a calm soothing film. Most of the kids movies tend to hype the kids up, this one has the opposite effect, maybe its the music.

Excellent movie with great values.......2007-03-05

I have a two-year-old, and though i'm no TV advocate, I do let her watch PBS shows like Sesame Street & Curious George, and yes, full-length movies like Piglet's Big Movie. This is such a meaningful story, and my little one loves all the songs in it, and can hum along to some of them. Yes, there are some dark, sad moments, but as long as we are watching with them, and reassuring them through the sad bits,I don't see a problem. I have watched a lot of Pooh movies, and this is one of the best. The music and songs are catchy and uplifting, and the story itself has wonderful values for little ones, and everyone else.

What the heck is the password?.......2006-12-19

For some reason, there is a parental lock on the special features on our DVD - I have to enter the password to unlock it. But what the heck is the password?! I'm the parent, yet I can't even unlock it, LOL. Can anyone help?

One of the best Winnie the Pooh movies!.......2006-11-26

Of all the Winnie the Pooh movies my son and I have watched this is by far our favorite!
The plot is layed out in a very creative way. It sends a wonderful message. The story telling is fabulous.
Excellent film! We watch it over and over again!

If the TV is already your sitter, you've got nothing to lose.......2006-10-23

Our 3 year old is very TV innocent. When he was 2, we let him first start watching sesame street on occasion. Pooh is his favorite storybook reading character. So when we thought we'd treat him to a movie, we picked this one.

Bad call.

I suppose for kids already used to TV, it won't be a big deal. But this was not a good intro. Some of the earlier reviews mention sad moments and near death scenes - all true. And totally stupid to have in a movie for kids. He was very upset by the things he saw happening to his storybook friends.

I suppose they need to grow up sometime, but we'll stick to our storybooks where we can talk about these things at our own pace. Much better than having them hurled at you along with a loud and bad soundtrack with no time to talk. Just try hitting the pause button with a 3 yr old transfixed to the screen.

The saddest part was for me, watching my vibrant 3 year old's eyes glaze over and any signs of life being sucked out by the TV. It's back to the storybooks for us.

Average customer rating:

Pure genius!
Back Woods
Someone Involved With the Movie
Completely miserable and bad in all possible ways
A Serious Review, by Someone Not Associated with the Movie

Back Woods
Starring: Jim Edberg , Gregg Elder , Miano Ferrari , Mara Goldman , and David C. Hayes
Manufacturer: Spectrum Entertain
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ASIN: B00006JMRR
Release Date: 2002-09-17

Customer Reviews:

Pure genius!.......2006-10-01

I believe this is one of the best B horror movies I've ever seen. But be warned, THIS IS NOT A MOVIE TO WATCH ALONE. Back Woods is a movie best seen with friends ... and perhaps some sort of enhancements. The humor is simple but incredibly funny because you know not one of those idiots are taking themselves all that seriously, so neither should you. There are a couple of generally creepy moments, but it's all in good fun. The whole movie is incredibly quotable and also features a beautiful wrack. So just forget what that other loser said and give it a try.

Back Woods.......2006-08-15

The plot description gives you what this movie is about. The only thing that I can say that is positive about this movie is the cover to the dvd...otherwise save your time and money. Low budget, extremely boring, special effects for the gore left me laughing. I thought this movie was put together by a group of kids who had nothing better to do in an afternoon, then try to attempt to make a horror flick. If you think that this movie is up your alley find someone who owns it and like I said save your money. If you want to laugh at a very poor attempt of a movie that I would rate lower than a "B-movie" this one fits the bill.

Someone Involved With the Movie.......2004-08-08

Some people have far too much time on their hands. Lots of bitterness here. We made this movie in 3 days for $900. It was a fun experiemnt for a bunch of friends to get together and have a good time. Someone at Dead Alive Productions saw it and made an offer. Would you turn down money? No, that would be stupid. Too bad these reviewers got NONE of the jokes. Zilcho. If you wanted to watch something good, you should have watched something else. Oh, thanks for the sale... I love royalty payments.

For the forty year old virgin living in his mother's basement (see review below) that wants to smack me in the face: I relish the thought of you taking a day off of work from your 7-11 Assistant Manager job and doing the deed.

Completely miserable and bad in all possible ways.......2004-02-21

Things you can buy just as cheaply as this awful DVD: a six-pack of beer, a supersize fast food meal, a box of condoms, etc. etc. My point being that even if you find yourself spending $3 plus postage for this visual atrocity you will still feel like you got ripped off. The "filmmakers," if you can call them that, should be paying the audience for sitting through this crap.

Don't get me wrong, I love low budget sleaze and horror, some of it shot on video, whatever. But this was by far the worst thing I've ever seen. Looks like a bunch of drunk frat guys got their hands on a video camera and filmed a pathetic excuse for a horror film. If you still need reasons not to watch this, then read on.

First of all, the bad video quality. The cheapest available digital video camera must have been used, since whenever there's the slightest bit of camera movement the screen breaks up into little "pixel" blocks. But that's a minor complaint when you consider how annoying every person that walks onscreen can be. The cover describes this as "dark, demented, and obnoxious." I would only agree with the obnoxious, especially David Hayes as a bloated, idiotic Baby Huey type that definitely qualifies as the all-time worst screen portrayal of a maniac killer I have ever seen. Watching him jump up and down and dance like a drunken toga party reject made me want to smack him in his fat face.

Then you have the terrible attempts at humor, which I won't even get into save the following: there is nothing more annoying than an awful horror film that tries to save itself by referring to established movies in the genre, especially Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. Within seconds you get references to all the above, delivered in the clumsiest fashion possible by the wretched cast.

Finally there's the crappy gore FX. Learn how to set up a camera, dude! I mean, given the low budget we expect some bad FX, but come on! In the shovel beating scene you can see that the body being beaten is just a stuffed dummy that doesn't even have hands or feet!! All they had to do was pull in a little closer, problem solved. But what do I expect at this point, right? The violence is not shocking. What is especially painful to witness is the male nudity that constantly invades the film. There is actually an evil spirit character called "Mangina" that is a masked naked man with his privates tucked "Silence of the Lambs"-style, who is continually shown dancing in slow motion. The first glimpse of a character that we get in this film is an extreme close-up of a fat guy's naked butt crack, and that pretty much set the tone for the whole release.

If it's dumb shot-on-video horror with cheap laughs that you are seeking, try Mulva: Zombie A** Kicker. At least that one has some funny dialogue and characters. Back Woods is the equivalent of taking a huge cinematic dump.

A Serious Review, by Someone Not Associated with the Movie.......2004-01-27

I cannot honestly say that director Grant Woodhill's _Back Woods_ is the worst movie I've ever seen. The problem is that I've seen Tony Malanowski's _Night Of Horror_ (which you'll only be able to find on an old copy of the VHS, if they haven't all been burned by now). _Back Woods_ is probably the second worst movie I've seen so far, and I've seen thousands (including lots of no-budget horror).

The positive reviews on the Internet for _Back Woods_ can only have a couple explanations. One, they were written by someone involved with the disc. If so, they must have been written only by someone in a position to gain financially from your spending a couple bucks on this turkey (they are probably trying to recoup the $20 they spent on the production plus the thousand or two spent to manufacture the disc and hire the sole professional associated with the project--whoever created the artwork for the case). The other cast and crew can't possibly want you to see this. The only other option is that they are written tongue-in-cheek by people who like to perversely mislead, who think it's funny to say that something is good if it's in fact terrible, and/or who aren't going to go down with a sinking ship unless _everyone_ goes down.

If you read about the movie on the box, _Back Woods_ sounds like it might be worth watching, especially if you like your entertainment on the bizarre side, or if you really enjoy "so bad they're good" films. Both of those descriptions fit me. I love all of John Waters' films. I'm an Al Adamson fan. I like Ed Wood--I even enjoyed watching _Orgy of the Dead_, which is basically 90 minutes of moderately tame go-go dancing. I love Troma. I think that Andreas Schnaas' films are entertaining in a perverse way. Heck, I even gave _Cabin Fever_ a 10 out of 10!

The problem is that if you hadn't read the box, and you tried to give an "objective" description of the film to someone, you'd have to say, " 'Filmed' on a digital camcorder with low resolution by someone overly amused by a couple cheap optical effects, _Back Woods_ is what Texas Chainsaw Massacre might have been like (the plot is a very rough rip-off) if made by a nine-year old who grabbed a handful of people at random in a county park, armed with bottle of strawberry jam for blood, and just made up the film on the fly, with the state park as the only location, in about three hours."

The most aggravating thing about the film, perhaps, is that it wouldn't have to be as bad as it is. It seems like the "filmmakers" made absolutely no effort, in any respect. There is no reason that the whole film has to be shot in a county park, with no sets. At one point, a picnic pavilion is supposed to be a gas station. You know this because they wrote the word "Gas" on a piece of cardboard with a magic marker and placed it on top of a garbage can. The villain, Luther, and his mom, both played by fat men, supposedly just live in the woods. Not in a house, they just stand around in the woods. During a "flashback", one character has a moustache that was drawn on with an eyebrow pencil. There is little concern with editing or pacing (of course). There are scenes where the camera just travels through the woods slowly for a couple minutes, and nothing else happens; there are scenes of someone walking through the woods and calling a name for about five minutes; the scant 60-something minute running time is further padded out with a nonsensical "fast reverse" replay of the whole film at the end; and the director was so amazed that he got the "lead actress" to show her breasts that he lingers on them for about a minute.

They don't even really try to create any gore effects, which usually are the best things about these kinds of no-budget horror films. People like Andreas Schnaas convey a true love for the horror genre, despite the fact that maybe they're not that talented and can't get together a lot of funding for their films. They still make the best horror films they can with the resources at their disposal. On the other hand, people like the crew and cast of _Back Woods_ only convey that they'd like to rip you off for a couple bucks, and want to spend as little money as possible to do it. It's like a three card monte game by someone who can't even be bothered to set up a cardboard box and use real cards--instead they just use the sidewalk as a "table" and draw cards on a couple pieces of scrap paper with an eyebrow pencil.

Product Description

When Luther (David Hayes) sees that his mother has been senselessly slaughtered by partying teens, what is a boy to do? When you are a 300 pound transvestite, redneck, ex-genius, it means only one thing... A killing spree of epic proportions.

Customer Reviews:

HORRIBLE.......2005-12-11

People, I beg of you. DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE. Please don't! It's so DUMB!!!!! It is shot with A HOME VIDEO CAMERA....you heard me. The acting is so incomprehendedly vile, I just can't describe it. Even if you're curious, don't buy it. I was curious, and I paid severely. I cried that day, because I couldn't believe I actually bought this "movie". To this day I lie awake in bed, wondering if anyone, besides the actors, enjoy it. None of the deaths are good. The whole thing looks so shaky that you cannot tell what's going on. The sound is horrible. The music is horrible. Why, it's so shockingly bad, that there should be an 11th Commandment against it. "Thou shalt not watch Back Woods". I am now convinced that David Hayes is the Anti-Christ. Actually, everyone who is involved with this movie are Anti-Christs. In short, I hate this movie. Peace out.

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