Enclosure

As the heading said, the basic premise of this film is the same as the X Files episode Detour.

The way it was directed was good, plot good and the camera angles great!! The amount of detail given to the surrounding was fantastic!

However the plot did not feel finished, in my opinion. It just needed a little more.

Overall a good movie, it just needed a little more.

A boring creature feature film with an equally boring ending. The film tries to do too much with a simple concept, it seems really over-produced to me. Most scenes are not scary at all, and the creatures I thought, looked pretty silly. I'd compare this to an old school SCI FI channel film that you'd watch in the middle of a weekday. Really not worth watching in my opinion. About 30 minutes in I was ready to call it quits and rate it in IMDb, but decided I should give it a try if I'm going to write a review about it- maybe it has an amazing, redeeming ending- nope, it didn't. At the end I was even a little confused about the intentions of the bad guys. Were they really religious or something? Are they feminists? What exactly was their motivation to stalk these woods?? There was the guy's name who made the film all over the place too which seems annoying and like he is deliberately trying to shove his name down your face: Patrick Rea: Arbor Demon! Arbor Demon BY Patrick Rea! A Patrick Rea Film: Arbor Demon! I mean, I don't know who this guy even is and he pastes his name everywhere possible. The only good thing about this movie is that I know who made it so I can avoid his crap in the future!

I don't know what it is about the cover poster but because of it I was actually quite looking forward to this.

Enclosure otherwise known as The Arbor Demon is yet another forest set horror movie which actually has an interesting plot, but is ruined by poor pacing and weak delivery.

Starring the real spawn of Chucky (Fiona Dourif) and erm the spawn of the Gingerdead Man? (Jake Busey) it tells the story of a couple who go camping in the woods but witness the local rednecks come under attack from a mysterious creature and they may be next!

It's all pretty cliched stuff that though it all comes together at the end, by that point it's all so very late.

Nice ideas but ultimately the Arbor Demon is more than slightly on the boring side.

The Good:

Great cover

Decent finale

The Bad:

Very dull

Pacing issues

Poorly made

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Ms Dourif does not have an ounce of the talent of her father

Well it had an interesting premise I'll give you that, overall OK execution but sadly it couldn't deliver much.

For a in the woods horror, Arbor Demon is more interesting than most but fails to provoke, and also I think it fell a little short as well. Perhaps if the last act would go on for a little longer and genuinely focus on that we could have had a better experience with it. There was room for more, maybe better writing, or you could blame it on the directing part, because either way you're looking at it, you feel that you could have gotten more, better!

So all in all it is a hard movie to recommend to anyone. Watch it at your own peril. It's definitely not bad, but it doesn't go all the way. Kinda stops two thirds of the way.

Cheers!