Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory results<\/p>\n
No low-budget horror movie can apparently now be greenlighted without featuring the obligatory posse of supremely irritating victims ripe for the culling. Pitfall director James Kondelik is evidently unbothered that this might make his bloody agenda too blatant; even his \u201csympathetic\u201d characters \u2013 a pair of grieving siblings on a wilderness trip to commemorate their parents \u2013 bleat out their issues at such length that it\u2019s sweet relief when a maniac woodsman (played by former UFC fighter Randy Couture) arrives to shut them up in a laborious and bombastic survival horror.<\/p>\n
Pitfall plays a bit as if the cast of Friends had strayed into Deliverance. Ashley (Alexandra Essoe) and her brother Scott (Marshall Williams) are returning several years later to the forest location where their parents died in a car accident after hitting a deer. Their respective other halves, Charlie (Matt Hamilton) and Gwen (Jordan Claire Robbins), are in tow \u2013 as well as carping spare wheel Lars (Richard Harmon). But Scott and Charlie\u2019s credentials as outdoorsmen are rumbled when, fleeing from wolves, the former falls into a spiked hunting pit of the type he\u2019d warned everyone to avoid a few hours earlier.<\/p>\n
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