Much like a campfire tale tailor-made to terrify impressionable listeners, this has a streak of self-referentiality that makes it feel ludic as well as lurid.

It's the story that lets the movie down.

While it may be a little rough around the edges, it is a unique spin on the classic summer camp horror that carves out a new direction for itself with fresh appeal for a modern audience.

She Came From The Woods has some thoroughly entertaining moments which include a hoard of homicidal possessed children, as well as the levels of gore employed which appear to be a love letter to practical effects maestro Tom Savini.