A team of students enter a forest and find the professor they were expecting to meet mysteriously missing.
This is an ecological thriller that has some surface similarities to The Happening. It's set in 1929, which raised my hopes a bit that it would have Lovecraftian elements, but the most you really get are a few shots of Weird Tales magazine. Lovecraft had such anxiety issues that he probably would have freaked out about some of the stuff in this movie, though.
The students have a party but eventually become worried about their missing professor. There's some credibly creepy stuff that goes on here, but you'll have to sit through some bad acting and less than stellar writing before you hit it. Once the characters finish yelling at each other and start acting more mature, it gets better.
Stranding some scientists in a remote location is reasonably Lovecraftian, or at least reminiscent of John Carpenter. However, it's a pretty location, not a desolate one, which makes turning it scary a bit harder. I couldn't place the forest, but the credits say it's in Quebec. They were going for beautiful but dangerous, which I think kind of worked.
One thing I definitely liked was the music, which I thought it was done quite well. The only problem was that it didn't always match what I thought the mood should have been. It was also a bit odd to see someone carrying around a phonograph and his record collection. But, whatever, the music was good.
I never realized there were so many thrillers and horror movies set in forests until recently. It seems like I'm hitting a lot of them randomly on streaming services. This wasn't the best one, but I liked it despite the occasional bad acting.
