Backwoods movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant backwoods movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, slasher, scary, disturbing, serious and rough films and TV shows about / with backwoods, murder, suspense, danger, forest, serial killer, redneck, violence, survival and blood plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Germany, Ireland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as backwoods: Dead Night (2017), Southern Comfort (1981), Centigrade (2020), Psychos in the Woods (2012), Poor Pretty Eddie (1975), Deliverance (1972), Midnighters (2017), Midnight (1982), Hell's Drifter (2009), The Undertow (2003).
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.
Style:
enigmatic, dark, scary, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
backwoods, supernatural, witch, paranoia, supernatural power, suspicion, murder, husband wife relationship, wilderness, parents and children, violence, mass murder ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, exciting ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, swamp, backwoods, soldier, vietnam war, murder, ambush, jungle, nature, disaster, gunfight ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
louisiana, california, texas, usa, southern usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, psychological thriller
Plot:
stranded, trapped, backwoods, suspense, snow, couples, argument, birth, blizzard, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fear, pregnant woman ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
norway
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A motley group of friends go camping in a remote forest where people have been disappearing for several years. What starts as an innocent weekend of fun turns into an ordeal of backwoods terror as a group of psychotic wood-dwellers starts stalking ...
Style:
brutal, sadistic, serious, slasher
Plot:
backwoods, violence, murder, wilderness, torture, forest, suspense, serial killer, death, dog, witch, stoner ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
redneck, backwoods, rape, exploitation, racism, sexual abuse, serial killer, injustice, psychopath, woman in danger, rivalry, wedding ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
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113K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, intense, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, rape, canoe, rape and revenge, hillbilly, nature, revenge, friendship, forest, river, homosexual rape ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, gothic
Plot:
backwoods, murder, dysfunctional marriage, accidental killing, moral dilemma, husband wife relationship, trap, car accident, death, suspense, trapped, dead man ...
Place:
new england
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenage girl runs away from home because police officer/stepfather puts the moves on her. Hitchhiking to California, she's picked up by two guys who are also traveling cross-country. Along the way, they decide to camp out in the woods and run ...
Style:
slasher, pastoral, psychotronic, satanic, cult film ...
Plot:
backwoods, satanist, dead mother, racism, occult, serial killer, satanic cult, teenager, redneck, ghost, killer, murderer ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A malevolent vagrant decides to make life hell for an injured accident victim.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, rough, surprise ending
Plot:
drifter, backwoods, abduction, held captive, trapped, stranded, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loner, suspense, revenge, maniac ...
Place:
dublin ireland
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Six friends enter the strange town of Old Mines for a weekend float trip. They quickly realize that the town is not friendly to strangers, and they are pressured to leave by the police. When the friends decide to continue their float trip anyway, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, psychopath, serial killer, survival, backwoods, wilderness, family in danger, isolation, escapades, violence spree, supernatural, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, twist ending, scary, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, extrasensory perception, mental illness, psychic, suspense, murder, psychic power, clairvoyant, fortune teller, tarot card, foreknowledge ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, sad, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
road trip, children, capitalism, home schooling, survivalist, funeral, precocious child, suicide, teenage girl, large family, dysfunctional family, socialism ...
Place:
washington state, oregon, xian
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, dark, erotic ...
Plot:
milf, sexually dissatisfied wife, murder, family secret, abusive father, sibling relationship, backwoods, suspense, loner, small town, cheating wife, father daughter incest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious ...
Plot:
kidnapping, murder, serial killer, psychopath, rape and revenge, backwoods, redneck, forest, mentally unstable, survival, rape, violence spree ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start ...
Style:
slasher, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
psychopath, group of friends, serial killer, survival, inbreeding, murder, stalking, ranger, maniac, wilderness, violence, backwoods ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A group of models find themselves trapped in a factory inhabited by a cannibalistic degenerated family.
Style:
slasher, bleak, suspenseful, rough, sexy ...
Plot:
monster, forest, backwoods, youth, best friends, confined, cannibalism, cannibal, factory, suspense, found footage, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
abduction, murder, lost in the woods, cannibalism, characters killed one by one, group of friends, suspense, escape, forest, hunter, community, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, appalachia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Based on the screenplay by Mario Von Czapiewski (Cannibal Diner), Rootwood follows two students who host "The Spooky Hour," a podcast about paranormal phenomena and urban legends. When they are hired by Hollywood film producer Laura Benott ...
Style:
disturbing, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
monster, forest, friendship, murder, legends and myths, violence, supernatural, obsession, filmmaking, psychopath, brutality, nothing goes right ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Helen and her daughter Emily reluctantly accompany Helen’s father Stan on a family camping trip, driving deep into the forest for a real outdoors experience, only to have angry landowner Howard arrive and force them to leave. When their RV gets ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
camping, backwoods, survival, struggle for survival, survival horror, family relations, suspense, female protagonist, homicidal maniac, deathtrap, parents and children, death threat ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fugitives, murder, psychopath, camping, stalking, backwoods, serial killer, youth, camp, insanity, suspense, rage ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
southern california, california
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401K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style:
atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, mind blowing, mysterious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, investigation, time loop, time machine, mysterious past, cave, time portal, missing child, repeated event, changing the future, disappearance, small town ...
Time:
year 1986, year 2019, year 1953, 50s, 80s
Place:
germany, chernobyl
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the ancient remedies.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, stylized, intense, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
voodoo doll, evil force, suspense, witchcraft, supernatural, prisoner, cult, backwoods, satanism, paranormal phenomena, cruelty, escape ...
Place:
appalachia, west virginia
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
While camping in Jasper Park up North California, the couple Tom Alan Smithee and Gwen Marie Holden are attacked by a group of strangers; Tom is immediately killed and Gwen is abducted by the men to an underground facility to breed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, scary
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, psychopath, on the run, camping, wilderness, redneck, expedition, backwoods, torture, attempted rape, suspense, serial killer ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers.
Style:
suspenseful, slasher, rough, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, small town, backwoods, isolation, confined, mutant, farm, redneck, group of friends, violence, torture, deformity ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, missouri
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make ...
Style:
scary, slasher, campy, surprise ending, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, murder, serial killer, cult, psychopath, violence, trap, farmer, misfit, meat, meat industry ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
texas, california
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of motorcyclists on a "treasure hunt" are terrorized by a gang of murderous psychopaths.
Style:
slasher
Plot:
backwoods, travel, redneck, hicksploitation, motorcycle, treasure hunt, nightmare, exploitation, killer, serial killer, downbeat ending, motorcyclist ...
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726
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to escape the area while the killer sets out to eliminate the witnesses who can tie him to the murder.
Style:
slasher, cult film, retro
Plot:
backwoods, exploitation, nightmare, redneck, adultery, murder, chase, hillbilly, murder witness, attempted rape, pacifist, domestic violence ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, survival, stalking, on the run, wilderness, mental illness, isolation, exploitation, backwoods, group of friends ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of friends on a camping trip, for the bride to be' s hen do, find themselves hunted down by a man eating cannibal troll in the woodland. They are hunted, captured and locked up in the Trolls torture chamber being forced to undergo a ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, psychotronic, bleak, brutal ...
Plot:
redneck, troll, monster, camping, teenager, backwoods, cabin in the woods, survival, kidnapping, killings, victim, friends ...
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Out hiking, Special Forces Brenner Baker stumbles onto a Cartel's compound. Her husband's killed and she's left for dead. The Cartel made two mistakes, killed her husband and left her alive. They won't live to make another.
Style:
brutal, intense, suspenseful
Plot:
master warrior, female soldier, one woman army, suspense, left for dead, one man army, backwoods, lone hero, tough heroes, rebel, peril, death of husband ...
Place:
alabama
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