Welcome to Willits (2016) Reviews

• A highly enjoyable horror comedy and an original twist on the common slasher...

  poet1025-12017-05-18

  Welcome to Willits isn't a perfect film, but most of its flaws come from clear budgetary constraints. The film itself is at times laugh out loud funny and can also be tense and very frightening. While it won't win any awards I found it to be one of the more entertaining horror films I've seen so far this year. If you like insane horror comedies like Tucker and Dale vs Evil or even stuff like Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy give this one a look. It plays very much like a low budget version of those films.

• Does not retain your attention

  Mikelikesnotlikes2017-05-22

  Pretty poor overall. Strangely enough the production values are good, just hamstrung by poor writing and uninteresting characters. I completely lost interest near the middle and it only got less enthralling from there. I can't even remember the ending as making dinner became more engrossing than the on screen action - pork ribs and roast veggies beat WELCOME TO WILLITS. There's some pretty weird stuff throughout the film that might hold the interest of some viewers. Some of the makeup was good. Leave this one for film students who want to take notes on what not to do.

• Decent

  anajtm2018-11-10

  The concept was really good...the acting and effects weren't all that great, and it could've been a lot better if it left the audience wondering if the aliens were real or really just a figment of a drug induced imagination. I did, however, enjoy the movie, and for a low budget film, the story line was really interesting. I think it's worth watching if you're into low budget, syfy type movies.

• 250. Welcome to Willits.

  tfminfl2018-06-18

  I wasn't expecting much, so I was very surprised that it was quite good, in that low budget horror comedy movie kinda way. And also, another movie that proves camping is stupid... It all begins with some young people, chilling out in the woods, doing those types of things, well it turns out they are camping out on some dudes pot farm. Funny thing, the start of the film plays a old timey type PSA about the dangers of marijuana, and yup there is a fair amount of Mary Jane in the flick, the problem lies in the drug of choice of the pot farmer, Crystal Meth. And so its on this night that the kids be partying that he is tweaking out on meth and mistakes the party goers for aliens, ooops. And yes, the farmer, Brock, does get abducted from time to time, it happens to coincide with his meth use, i don't know if thats important or not, but its during these abductions that Brock is forced to watch a TV cop show, and the characters seem to know more than they should!! And wait is that Ivan Drago in the TV show playing Dolph Lundgren??? Filmbufftim on FB.

• Meth heads

  jmpowell232018-06-07

  Pretty funny how the druggies work together to kill a bunch of young adults camping thinking they are aliens! So serious about it.