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The Forest

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THE FOREST is a stupid and confused Slasher-turned-ghost-story about two couples who are stalked through the woods by a cannibalistic killer. The awful score is the best THE FOREST has to offer over its uneventful storytelling, bloodless murders, and idiotic characters. It is simply a bore to watch, and the supernatural elements plot elements make absolutely no sense. The ghosts of the killer's family come and go at various points, interacting with the characters who seem entirely unfazed by their existence. Thankfully, a few of the poorly scripted lines make for some unintentional humor and milk entertainment, but other than that, this is a bottom of the barrel Horror with no redeeming qualities. It is clearly the work of a talentless director looking to exploit the "Slasher in the woods" theme.

-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies

THIS MOVIE WAS DEFINATELY A WASTE OF MONEY,IT IS A LOW BUDGET SENCELESS MESS SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE HAD A FEW DOLLARS TO BLOW AND DECIDED TO MAKE THIS MESS TWO DEAD KIDS RUNNING AROUND IN THE FOREST TRYING TO KEEP THEIR DAD FROM KILLING PEOPLE IT SOUNDED GOOD WHEN I READ THE SYPNOSIS BUT THAT,S JUST WHAT I DID SOUNDED GOOD ,DON,T WASTE A PENNY ON THIS ONE TRUST ME!

Two couples are planning camping trips, the wives planning one together, and the husbands one together. (Odd marriages, I see.) Earlier, we see another couple on a hike, and after the husband is killed, the wife is chased around for a bit and killed off as well. (Evidently, someone's out there, killing--as if we didn't figure that out already). Anyhow, the couples plan to meet up that night after the hike starts. But, as figured, someone is out there. Sharon and Teddie, the wives, are plagued by specters of some sort, until Teddie is killed, and Sharon is sent running. Then the husbands (whose names I forgot) meet up with someone in a cave, hoping to escape the rain, and they are offered some meat cooking over the fire. (Take a wild guess at what--or rather, who--it is) The man tells them a story about himself and his wife, and their children (which pretty much explains the ghosts) and soon the men are plagued by terror. Things go on as expected from there, as Sharon fights to survive in the woods, and the evil surviving man searches for her and Teddie, until the it's-been-done-before climax.

Not a terrible movie. The music is absolutely awful, and the acting is nothing to rave about, but it's still an okay film. A couple of good chase scenes, but the first one of the evil surviving man going after Sharon after he kills Teddie was just too dark. I couldn't see a thing. Now, maybe it was my TV but I don't know, it was still pretty dark. I preferred the day scenes. There were a couple of mild scares, but in the end, this is just another dull slasher with a few new twists. But, if you find it anywhere, check it out. It's barely entertaining, at best.

Im only giving this 2 stars cause i was able to get thru it, this is definitly not something that any slasher fan would wanna watch twice, like Dont go in the woods or Just before dawn, the forest is the worst woods slasher of the bunch, no real gore , no good death scenes, and a ridiculous plot about a man who kills his cheating wife and takes his children to go live in a cave in the woods, eventually the kids kill themselves and the lonely man kills campers for food we see no real canniblism except what appears to be a pot roast on a spick thats supposed to be human, the campers are guided to safety by the ghosts of the mans children its pretty lame, slasher fans pass whoever said this was classic is just hype dont believe the hype this movie is bad in a bad way.

Just another boring slasher film about a crazy man who looks eerily like George Lucas stalking people in a Cali forest. Music is beyond bad and the script paired with the acting is just awful, boring and been done better in countless other films. Veer away unless you are a VERY hard core slasher junkie.

great movie im glad it came out on dvd , these hard to find movies