Lumberjack Man (2015) poster
2015 · horror · comedy · supernatural

Lumberjack Man

Directed by Josh Bear1h 45m2015
ElsewhereIMDb4.21k
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • cold
  • funny
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with "Fun Under the Son", a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.

Our read · Lumberjack Man (2015) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal horror · comedy · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want silly gory church-camp slasher comedy with a demonic lumberjack.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 2/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorenudityexplicit sexdrug usechild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if gratuitous teenage nudity and bloody kills will ruin the night.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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