Woods Hollow

Woods Hollow is actually two films - the first a short film by Jacob McAuliffe created in 2007, and the second a remake made in 2010. Both films revolve around a teenager getting trapped in a haunted forest, with the second film getting more in-depth into the whole scenario. In both films, the teenager is played by Sean Maruscak.

It should be noted that when people refer to Jacob McAuliffe Trademarks, most of those trademarks are derived from this movie. This film is pretty much the embodiment of them all - if you took them all and made a movie out of them, you'd get Woods Hollow. To it's credit though, it was one of Jake's first movies, so it was original when it was first made.

The first film used an abundence of stock sound effects, causing some scary scenes to be unintentionally funny. For the remake, Jake actually created all the sounds from scratch, including the music.

Production on the second film was notorious for being very difficult. Filming took place outside over several days over the winter, in below-freezing temperatures. Over the course of filming, most of the equipment broke down, actors and crew members ditched, and many things went horribly wrong. On one day, only one of the crewmembers, Eric Newton, showed up to shoot. Jake and Eric decided to film a different movie that day, which ironically became more popular than Woods Hollow itself.

The remake screened at the 2010 Ballston Spa Film Festival, and was posted on Youtube April 13th, 2010.

Recently (as of Fall 2011), it has come to the attention of Jake that the popular horror film The Human Centipede stole the opening of the remake of Woods Hollow. Both films feature openings where the main character(s) car breaks down in the middle of the woods, causing them to have to wander around until they find a house, where they ask for help only to meet a creepy guy who causes horrible things to happen to them. Since Woods Hollow came out 17 days before The Human Centipede, it's obvious we were plagarized. IT'S OBVIOUS!!!