Lumberjack Man

4.3
2015 1 hr 45 min Horror , Comedy

As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with "Fun Under the Son", a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.

  • Cast:
    Michael Madsen , Brina Palencia , Alex Dobrenko , Chase Joliet , Wray Crawford , Amanda Moon Ray , Andy San Dimas

Reviews

Claysaba
2015/10/16

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

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Livestonth
2015/10/17

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

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Rio Hayward
2015/10/18

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Mandeep Tyson
2015/10/19

The acting in this movie is really good.

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jadavix
2015/10/20

"Lumberjack Man" is a weird, boring stab at a horror comedy that is unsuccessful.Of course it's not in the least funny, but how many comedies are?The fact is that the comedic moments, if that's what they are, are handled so badly that they merely become confusing.It's not enough to throw in a joke here and there. There's also the matter of tone which allows a person to actually identify the joke and (maybe) laugh at it. "Lumberjack Man" has no tone. Nor does it really have a sense of place - the "summer camp" setting for both horror movies (Friday the 13th and its infinite number of rip-offs) and comedies (Meatballs, Happy Campers) for the filmmakers to have some idea of how to present it. But they don't. It feels like most of the action takes place a few miles from the camp anyway. This vague sense of place doesn't help.The movie is, of course, also not scary in the least; it doesn't even really try to be, which is not a problem because no one sees a slasher movie expecting scares. What is a problem is the villain. I don't know what they were going for, but it's one of the least memorable villains I've ever seen in a slasher. It's the typical massive stunt man (and being big does not equal scary) with a face like a block of wood.The explanation for the killer's presence and how to do away with it is, I guess, where the humour comes in. Michael Madsen gives a monologue, complete with an animated sequence, to provide an explanation so moronically bizarre and out of step with everything else in the movie that I couldn't bare to pay attention. It has something to do with pancakes and syrup?This is where the problem with the tone comes in: it's nowhere near ridiculous enough to absorb a sequence like this into the rest of the movie. It doesn't make you laugh at the ridiculousness: it makes you shake your head at the weirdness, and then, of course, you wonder what the filmmakers were thinking, or if they were. You start trying to formulate explanations for how the movie went so wrong.The ending, where this stupid origin story comes into play, is as badly done as you'd expect. I didn't know what was supposed to have happened, but I did know, with one hundred percent certainty, that it had no hope at all of ever being presented cinematically by the people who made this movie.The movie does have quite a bit of nudity (all breast shots). It does the typical thing of having multiple pretty, likable actresses, none of whom provide the above shots. And, weirdly, when the ladies do disrobe, the movie turns into a sexy music video with different music, lighting, dancing. Of course, this only distracts you.As for the "kills", one is fairly memorable: the camp manager is cut in half at the waist, and watches his lower body run away from him.

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adi_2002
2015/10/21

Hell breaks loose for a class of students on a camp trip when they are stalked by a masked killer.Watching this reminded me of two great classics: Sleepaway Camp and Texas Chainsaw Massacre but in the twentieth century version. The bad guy looks a little like Leatherface.(at allure).OK so the movie is stupid but fun. The girls are cute, the nudity is needed to attract the viewer, the killings were gross but original.I will keep it short, if it wasn't for the silly thing with the syrup perhaps the outcome could have been much better, why ruin all that effort from the actors for that dumb fact ?If you like a horror with a lousy ending then you might enjoy it. Watch it one night and you will not be 100% disappointed. I wasn't.

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tenebroussuspire
2015/10/22

Clocking in at an hour and 45 minutes, Lumberjack Man is way too long for a slasher flick. I never thought I'd say this, but it's a case of "too much tits, not enough gore." The film's filler time is devoted to sexual content to the point of over-saturation. There's a scene where two campers watch a counselor strip, dance, and rub lotion on herself for what feels like ten minutes. It especially becomes evident towards the end, the final confrontation dragging on and on. It accentuated the character's stupidity with every pitiful attempt at comedy.Every scene is extended to either prolong on-screen nudity or exaggerate comedic delivery. Speaking of which...Despite being a horror comedy, the movie's humor is hit-or-miss. Most of the jokes are overly-long, sexual, and reliant on absurdity. It gets repetitive quickly. Most of my laughs came from the kills, of which some were quite funny and inventive, but they were few and far between. Which is a shame because the cast is larger than most camp slashers.I also had a lot of problems with the characters. Bumbling, annoying and unlikable.It's technically functional, sure, but that does nothing to fix how insipid this movie is. In short, Lumberjack Man is an unbalanced, lukewarm, boring film, inferior to other horror comedy films. I suggest skipping it and watching The Final Girls, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Behind the Mask, Severance, Stage Fright, or Club Dread.

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Adam Baehr
2015/10/23

OMG I absolutely loved this movie. I have been watching the new After Dark Horrorfest films and I watched Bastard last night which I reviewed and here is my review for Lumberjack Man. The story is your standard affair of a bunch of counselors going to a church camp early before the kids come and there is a possessed killer aloof. I found it to be a black comedy style of Friday the 13th which I found to be Epic. The acting was well done with a cast of kids that played horny teenagers perfectly as did Michael Madsen who was quite funny. The movie isn't so much horror as it's black comedy as I mentioned prior but it works great with the tone of the film. The movie is Hilarious I must add and it has a ton of quips. I will say there is at least three times the nudity over most other films of this kind which is fine with me. The kills were Superb and quite creative in terms of an hour and forty-five minute movie running time. I would recommend watching this immediately because it's well worth the watch if not the ten dollar purchase. I promise that you will not regret watching it.

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