Product Details

• Actors: Marie Trintignant, Suzanne MacAleese, Maud Buquet, Alexia Stresi, Denis Lavant
• Directors: Lionel Delplanque
• Writers: Lionel Delplanque, Annabelle Perrichon
• Producers: Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc, Pierrick Goter
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: October 23, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005NKUH
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #436,006 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh take on the genre, April 11, 2002

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Craig Clarke "Living After Midnight: Hard and... (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deep in the Woods [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A French slasher film. Who would've thought? And it's quite good.

To start, this thing is moody as all get out. The one thing I kept thinking was that it most reminded me of Suspiria, and other Dario Argento films. Probably just the European connection.

The plot is simple (always a plus in this genre): five college kids drive out to an old mansion in order to put on a surreal stage version of Little Red Riding Hood for the owner's creepy son (and, boy, was this kid creepy!). After a few tokes (and a gratuitous--although not unappreciated--Lesbian scene), they run out into the woods. After they return to the house, they notice one hasn't come back.

Then they start dying one by one.

For a slasher film, this one really held my interest. I kept wondering who was going to die next. And who was doing the killing. But all that doesn't really matter. The real star here is the direction. The moody eerieness never lets up from the beginning. Plus, effects like the use of after-shower steam as a vision obstruction brought a novelty to a tired field. And then there's that creepy kid. It doesn't take much, just for the kid to stare with wide open eyes, but it works.

The acting I can't really say much about. The English was dubbed instead of subtitled (I guess this was not marketed to foreign film fans, but horror fans), so it's hard to tell whether the acting was being done by the bodies or the voices. I was not disappointed in either, however.

I would definitely recommend this for fans of Argento (or other European horror filmmakers), or anyone looking for fresh ideas in the slasher subgenre.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great gothic atmosphere, November 17, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Deep in the Woods (DVD)

Right from the opening murder you can tell that its going to be serious.At times it reminds you of Dario Argento's Suspiria with the whole fairy tale theme.And the killer's mask was creepy.I recomend this to horror fans who loved 'Suspiria', 'Scream', and 'The Blair Witch Project'.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deep in the woods of seduction., June 3, 2002

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Marco Lazzarotto Muratori (Rimini, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deep in the Woods (DVD)

Surpisingly good french movie, where everyone is not what he/she seems to be. This stylish sleeper is far superior to those teen-slasher flicks where everything is too obvious and there are too many explanations. Erotic, really intriguing and extremely ambiguous, "Deep in the woods" is a potential cult-movie from a 27-yrs-old director. In some ways, between Dario Argento and David De Coteau, with echoes from Mario Bava e Jean Rollin.