The Final Terror
1981 Dir. Andrew Davis AKA Campsite Massacre Bump in the Night Carnivore The Creeper The Forest Primeval A group of forest rangers and their girlfriends head up into the wild woods for a few days hiking. Unbeknownst to them they are being stalked by a vicious and deranged killer who begins to pick them off one by one… Trespassers will be prosecuted, indeed. This probably sounds familiar by now, right? A group of people in the middle of nowhere, being murdered one by one by a largely unseen, unhinged lunatic. The early Eighties were saturated with slasher movies set in the backwoods of rustic Americana, where partying young people from the city were hacked and slashed without mercy by inbred rural cannibals when investigating strange noises in dark forests. Friday the 13th (1980), Just Before Dawn (1981), Madman (1982), The Burning (1981), The Prey (1984), sorry, getting a bit carried away, I’m sure you get the drift. ‘Killer in the woods’ films were popular in the ea...