The Final Terror

The Final Terror (1983) is Andrew Davis's backwoods slasher, and you can watch it online on iFILM. A pack of friends drives deep into a remote national forest for a weekend of tents, campfire songs and cheap beer. None of them realize they have pitched camp on land that already belongs to someone — someone who stopped sharing the woods a long time ago.

First a ranger goes missing. Then the vehicle. Then night falls, and a figure draped in moss and leaves starts picking them off from the undergrowth, blending into the trees. Davis strips out most of the music and lets the forest itself carry the dread. The real draw today is the cast: a very young Daryl Hannah and Rachel Ward years before stardom, plus Adrian Zmed and Joe Pantoliano early in their careers.

Shelved for three years before its 1983 release, the film came from a director who would later make The Fugitive. A solid slice of eighties wilderness horror for genre diggers. Stream The Final Terror (1983) online on iFILM.