Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance (opens in new tab)

Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory resultsNo 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 ...