Spirit in the Woods

Right from the trailer, I knew I was being subjected to garbage. This movie is complete bilge. I have seen YouTube videos made by teenagers and college students that were less amateur than this movie. The acting is terrible, it looks like it was edited on iMovie by an 8 year old and it looks like it was shot on a freaking cellphone camera. I'd be less than surprised if Anthony Daniel just pocketed the money, got a few people who were willing to work for free, shot it on an iPhone and edited it half-assedly on Windows Movie Maker, because the funding I know for a fact that he secured should have at least paid for a good camera and good editing software if he was using it right. That amber alert poster looks like it was made on Paint. The improv is so unnatural that it makes me want to set myself on fire. The pacing is god awful. Nothing happens until the very freaking end and even still, I don't know what in god's name I'm looking at.

There's really not much else to say. The movie is garbage and that's all there is to it.

Okay, I rarely review but this was so bad I am mad I wasted my time watching it. The acting was worse than our 5th grade talent show. Why is this even on Vudu or any other site to buy is beyond me. Barf bad.

So... college kids are on a biology assignment. If they go to Spirit Woods the get an extra 50 points (but only if they are a C+ or better--as if that matters). And they get lost. And something happens. But I'm not certain at all what happens. And they decide to sleep.in a tent they randomly find by a fire pit. And something else happens. And then the movie ends. No clue as to what occurred. But somehow they determine that something occurs. But it's not seen. Or explained. And yeah college kids, cameras, woods. That about sums it up.

I knew this movie was in trouble when across the screen toward the beginning, it printed that the filmmakers did "are" best to recover the footage. "Are "instead of "our?" Really? Unfortunately, my fears were confirmed. The actors didn't really act, and didn't seem to care that they didn't care. I kept hoping during the first hour that it would somehow get better perhaps when the action picked up, but the action in the first hour didn't pick up. The acting got no better. So, the entire first hour absolutely sucked, and the final part wasn't even scary. Waste of time. I think my own teenagers could have pulled it off better. It seemed a throwaway, just get it done mishmash.

Objectively speaking, this movie has terrible acting, the first 55 minutes is wandering the woods, rambling, where nothing happens, the camera pans around and you think you might see something, which can be kind of cool, but so deep into the movie and nothing has happened is a stretch to even call it a movie... then when anything does happen, you see a white faced wraith like face, and that is IT. That's it. That's all you get... some shook up guys, a guy with blood on his hands and shirt, blurry camera-work, a long narrative, and that is it.

I am astonished how the producer even considered funding this movie. It's devoid of redeeming qualities, it blows my freaking' mind.

The producer actually told me he funded it just to make an easy return to fund his own projects....

Yes, that's the truth, any movie no matter how bad will make money, because you can make a very formulaic horror film for so little these days and get some kind of return, can't argue with you there, but it is dragging down the genre big time when all one is doing it for is the money.