This movie certainly started out fairly promising. A nice premise and a more diverse cast than you sometimes see. Unfortunately the acting deteriorated rapidly; this may have been due to what appears to have been a lack of any real script.
Most of the film is spent on the "build up" which more or less amounts to a group of relatively annoying college students bumbling about in a rather pretty looking wood. If I had wanted to watch a school project or a youth outing, I'd have searched for one on Youtube.
"Spirit in the Wood" falls for the same traps as "The Blair Witch Project" did, except with much less grace and a severe lack of polish.
Not frightening in the slightest.
I would love to see this story revisited. With a more creative writer/director, this could have been fairly creepy. The back-story of the woods themselves was certainly disturbing.
My friend tells me that this was Kickstarted. I'm sorry to say that if I had been one of the funders I would have been quite disappointed. I am somewhat confused as to how this movie has earned such a high rating here on IMDb but, then again, I rarely seem to agree with the ratings on horror movies on this site.
Basically, don't go into this movie expecting anything and have a better one lined up for afterwards.
Most of the film is spent on the "build up" which more or less amounts to a group of relatively annoying college students bumbling about in a rather pretty looking wood. If I had wanted to watch a school project or a youth outing, I'd have searched for one on Youtube.
"Spirit in the Wood" falls for the same traps as "The Blair Witch Project" did, except with much less grace and a severe lack of polish.
Not frightening in the slightest.
I would love to see this story revisited. With a more creative writer/director, this could have been fairly creepy. The back-story of the woods themselves was certainly disturbing.
My friend tells me that this was Kickstarted. I'm sorry to say that if I had been one of the funders I would have been quite disappointed. I am somewhat confused as to how this movie has earned such a high rating here on IMDb but, then again, I rarely seem to agree with the ratings on horror movies on this site.
Basically, don't go into this movie expecting anything and have a better one lined up for afterwards.