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Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory results No low-budget horror movie can apparently now be greenlighted without featuring the obligatory posse of supremely irritating victims ripe for the culling. Pitfall director James Kondelik is evidently unbothered that this might make his bloody agenda too blatant; even his “sympathetic” characters – a pair of grieving siblings on a wilderness trip to commemorate their parents – bleat out their issues at such length that it’s sweet relief when a maniac woodsman (played by former UFC fighter Randy Couture) arrives to shut them up in a laborious and bombastic survival horror. Pitfall plays a bit as if the cast of Friends had strayed into Deliverance. Ashley (Alexandra Essoe) and her brother Scott (Marshall Williams) are returning several years later to the for
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance, Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory results No low-budget horror movie can apparently now be greenlighted without featuring the obligatory posse of supremely irritating victims ripe for the culling. Pitfall director James Kondelik is evidently unbothered that this might make his bloody agenda too blatant; even his “sympathetic” characters – a pair of grieving siblings on a wilderness trip to commemorate their parents – bleat out their issues at such length that it’s sweet relief when a maniac woodsman (played by former UFC fighter Randy Couture) arrives to shut them up in a laborious and bombastic survival horror. Pitfall plays a bit as if the cast of Friends had strayed into Deliverance. Ashley (Alexandra Essoe) and her brother Scott (Marshall Williams) are returning several years later to the for
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- Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into DeliveranceThe Guardian - 2026-06-22T12:00:23+00:00
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