In the beginning we see a blurb about a local mine disaster as well as some country men kill a man in coral, "not pink" pants. The killers were never developed and one of them can "run" on all fours faster and longer than people can run on just legs-sure. Six women with issues take a paid hiking and camping trip to get away and relax. Because of a forest fire, they will go 250 miles away from the usual path...somewhere near where a guy would wear coral pants and get killed by the fashion police.

The film centers on Kat (Nicole Marie Johnson- co-writer, producer) who was a human "punching bag." While on the trip she gets a call from her ex-boyfriend saying he was sorry and to call her back...now! The only character build up is on Kat and that wasn't any better than the Quarry boys. They opted to do this the Hemingway method and slowly build as the story wears on, which doesn't always work. Kat, an EMT, eventually becomes their unofficial leader.

Now normally in films such as this, the women are captured. tied up and have their blouses ripped off in preparation for breeding or for stew. However in this script, written by a woman in order to empower women, have their heroines subdue armed men twice their size with sticks and stones.

The film itself wasn't bad. However the Quarry boys have zero background and I must have missed how those old headlines relate to the current group of guys in the woods. I am sure they do or else they wouldn't have pun named the film "Quarries." Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

I really don't know what's going on with the reviews these days: Quarries is in no way a 10,9,8 but also for certain no 1,2, or 3 rating. Yes, one could say nothing new on the Western front regarding the plot but we get decent acting, the cam man knows his job, and for certain I don't expect dialogues and sophisticated plot-lines a la Tolstoi or Steinberg - if I watch a survival horror movie.

In short, Quarries is a decent movie about a bunch of girls hunted down by a bunch of crazy bad guys (hillbilly-style) in the wilderness. Solid but nothing special. I would have preferred more gore to spice things up for sure, but anyway, not every movie can or maybe even should suit a gorehound like me. My ultra precise rating: 5.5.

QUARRIES is another endlessly terrible backwoods horror flick about a camping trip that goes awry when the female members have a run in with the usual redneck characters who have a passion for hunting humans. It's badly written, tritely directed and poorly acted, with barely a familiar face in the cast and a whole lot of nonsense thrown in to fill up the running time. A slog to sit through, in other words; an interminable production, cookie cutter-generic, indistinguishable from at least a dozen others, most of which were better than this.