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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 suspense, suspenseful, slasher, scary, disturbing and rough films and TV shows about / with backwoods, murder, danger, violence, survival, woods, forest, redneck, deadly and serial killer plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as backwoods: Killing Ground (2016), Backwoods (2008), Inbred (2011), Malevolence (2003), Back Roads (2018), Psychos in the Woods (2012), The Cottage (2008), Timber Falls (2007), Centigrade (2020), Cannibal Diner (2012).
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List of backwoods movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers
Plot:
serial killer, camping, rape, survival horror, backwoods, rape and murder, woods, dog, doctor, murderer duo, husband wife relationship, wilderness ...
Place:
oceania, australia
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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:
backwoods, redneck, psychopath, survival, danger, on the run, gory, wilderness, expedition, torture, attempted rape, serial killer ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
north carolina, los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Four young offenders and their workers spend a weekend in the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with locals rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare.
Style:
slasher, scary, semi serious, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
backwoods, inbreeding, masked killer, psychopath, dark humor, social misfits, village, torture, survival, danger, isolation, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, yorkshire, britain
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, hostage, masked killer, woman in danger, gory, criminal heroes, confined, on the run, violence spree, backwoods, kidnapping, old dark house ...
Time:
year 2003, year 1989, 80s, year 1999, 90s
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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:
erotic, suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
backwoods, illicit affair, family secret, murder, cheating wife, sexually dissatisfied wife, danger, milf, incest, self sacrifice, outdoor sex, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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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:
suspense, brutal, sadistic, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
backwoods, torture, wilderness, violence, murder, forest, danger, serial killer, woods, backwoods slasher, witch, psycho ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
Style:
horror comedy, slasher, scary, dark comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dark humor, kidnapping, countryside, nothing goes right, ransom, backwoods, gangster, danger, murder, chase, perfect crime, confined ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe, england, britain
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, forest, gory, danger, fanatic, survival, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, mountain, rescue, murder, religions or cults ...
Place:
west virginia, usa, virginia
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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:
suspense, tense, captivating, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
stranded, trapped, backwoods, blizzard, snowstorm, frostbite, pregnant woman, breast feeding, couples, argument, birth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2002
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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, erotic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
cannibalism, monster, woods, backwoods, best friend, youth, danger, gory, factory, serial killer, eating human flesh, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Serbia
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:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
backwoods, murder, lost in the woods, cannibalism, community, abduction, group of friends, escape, characters killed one by one, hiking, terror, blinded ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, appalachia
Is relevant?
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:
suspense, tense, tension, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival horror, struggle for survival, backwoods, forest, family relations, secret, escape, isolation, danger, deathtrap, female protagonist, death threat ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against ...
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, backwoods, serial killer, skinny dipping, hitchhiking, kidnapped, female nudity, kidnapping, dead man, automobile, psycho killer, composer ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france
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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, grindhouse, psychotronic, demonic, independent film ...
Plot:
backwoods, satanic cult, racism, satanist, dead mother, occult, serial killer, redneck, murderer, maniac, teenager, dead body ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, slasher horror, sexy, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
swamp, serial killer, gory, backwoods, killer, survival horror, survival, supernatural, urban legend, trap, manic, halloween ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Style:
suspense, demonic, satanic, psychological, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forest, lost in the woods, creature, supernatural, paganism, guilt, hiking, ritual, folk horror, murder, supernatural horror, sacrifice ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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477
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:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
monster, forest, murder, friendship, backwoods, legends and myths, filmmaking, supernatural, psychopath, brutality, obsession, violence ...
Place:
los angeles
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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:
suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
backwoods, held captive, drifter, abduction, trapped, revenge, murder, loner, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, maniac, isolation, mind game ...
Place:
dublin ireland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
November 18th 2011 a small Danish film crew disappeared in the woods of northern Sweden without a trace. One year later, their footage was leaked by a hacker group now known as Pandoras. This is the crew's unsettling and disturbing footage.
Style:
bleak, suspense, suspenseful, light, spooky ...
Plot:
disappearance, found footage, peril, danger, unconsciousness, risk, confusion, cruelty, evil alien, alien invasion, jeopardy, woods ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The crew of the TV show "Real TV" with controlling boss Gunnar on the front line will soon begin production of a reality show for which participants are selected to survive in the wilderness. Gunnar has gathered a production team of four ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
woods, wilderness, gory, psychopath, tv crew, supernatural, danger, deadly creature, isolation, twists and turns, witch, holiday horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
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, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
backwoods, breast feeding, redneck, survival, small town, mountain, mutant, confined, isolation, danger, farm, violence ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
Is relevant?
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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, sexy, scary, dark ...
Plot:
psychic, mental illness, clairvoyant, psychic power, tarot card, extrasensory perception, small town, murder, supernatural horror, fortune teller, murder mystery, investigation ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place:
southern usa, usa, georgia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, 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, suspense, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot:
backwoods, captive, dead man, supernatural, new year, new year's eve, desert, cover-up, dysfunctional marriage, murder, troubled marriage, marital problem ...
Place:
new england
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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, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, backwoods, swamp, lost in the woods, ambush, poacher, murder, american south, dog attack, pursuit, on the run ...
Time:
year 1981, year 1973, 70s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa, vietnam, texas ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style:
suspense, scary, creepy, cult horror, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, gory, woods, infected, body horror, disease, fear, paranoia, eaten alive, danger, plague, forest ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during ...
Style:
suspense, underground horror, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
backwoods, diner, danger, deadly creature, hitchhiker, twists and turns, confined, supernatural, underground, monster, murder, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, blood, chase, disfigurement, brutality ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the depths of the Tasmanian wilderness a group of hikers looking for a Tasmanian Tiger. They encounter a group of cannibals descended from Alexander Pearce, who was hung for cannibalism in 1824, out to find fresh breeding stock.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cannibal, survival, serial killer, werewolf, psychopath, murder, wilderness, backwoods, rescue, danger, isolation, amputation ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
australia, oceania, tasmania
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When four campers' weekend trip turns deadly, in the remote town of Enoch, they find the locals are all too happy to serve up their own brand of an eye for an eye justice.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
woods, survival, small town, survival horror, weekend getaway, peril, struggle for survival, trap, trapped, body horror, woman in danger, redneck ...
Time:
21st century
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