Within the Bloody Woods

This is a claymation, not an anime. Why is this on MAL? I'm so confused.

Apparently the creator of this is some prolific guy. To be honest, I thought that this was a college students final project/thesis thing..... or maybe that's too generous and I should say a highschool student's final project.

The only reason this wasn't a 1 in my books is because it had a story, was mostly consistent, and the story was simple. Guy's in the woods, meets a zombie. Simple and straightforward.

But yeah no, this is bad, really bad. It's also only 5 minutes total. Watch it, or don't that's up to you.

Rate of 3 (poor)
seen via English vocals

*Note my animation skills with clay are terrible. Everything i have seen clay related have passed my skills so i generally wont give a 1 or a 2.

Likes
the writer or plot remained true per-say. I say that for after first episode it continue in the second right where episode 1 left off. However, when episode 2 ended it was followed with a to be continued. Granted, that could have been error, lack of funds, an indication of Within the Bloody Woods 2, or anything. So, to be fair i will give the benefit of the doubt and not show ... too much critique in that retrospect. Although, would have been nice if it was a couple of those listed above if they went back in episode 2 and changed it.

I would say more but that is all i liked.

Dislikes
sound: it was nice to hear a natural English speaker for a change. Although, that speaker should have been canned from the get go. The only reason to have kept him was for a character that is either caught in a time dilemma, smoking weed, 'special' character, not a character whom is faced with evil. I think that is the main reason why this horror did not scare me. For it was very clear on the ears the vocalist did not have good enthusiasm . just saw this as another paycheck. "oh i have to read this? Okay, how much will i get paid? That much?! So, little. *demonstrates sadness in the vocal reading."

Intro to the art was rather choppy on both episodes. I.e. the frame rate was slow. Felt similar to watching an old t.v. i wanted to pound the screen to make it go faster.

p.s. if you want a beginner's horror and are not really grossed on obvious fake blood i would go with this. otherwise, have a nice day somewhere else.