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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020) ★★★
This was a fun little slasher.*
The killers were somewhere between Victor Crowley and The Toxic Avenger, we had a likable final girl,... And the kills? Well, the opening kill with the mailman - aka Polish Pete Postlethwaite - is a good example. You know what's coming, but it still grabs you. The following ones are a lot more gory and in a same way*satisfactory.
It also offers social commentary. Instead of fat camp, the kids go on "phone camp" and the first kid - after the obligatory sex scene - gets offed after his digibesity gets the better of him. And of course there is the gay character. I imagine this is not a theme you bring up easily in current day Poland, so kudos to the makers for going there. Especially because the character comes to a sad ending, not unlike the original Night Of The Living*Dead.
Which brings me to the stylistic side of this film and it's knowledge of horror history. Apart from the fat kid souting oneliners and reciting classic scripts, the film had/seemed to have nods to
- Wrong Turn 2 (the kill was a direct copy)
- Tucker and Dale vs evil (the woodchipper bit)
- Aliens
- a nice variation on "come with me if you want to live"
- Night of the living dead
- Freddy vs*Jason
And I could swear I heard a variation on "When I need you" by Leo Sayer. Not unlike what Jordan Peele does in*Us.
Maybe not a classic, but very enjoyable*nonetheless.
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