The Singing Forest

An experience of utter torture. I'm glad that I got it as part of a two-for-one special at the video store. Horrible story, bad acting, bad lighting, bad soundtrack: bad, bad, bad. It has to be one of the 10 worst films ever made. After 10 minutes, I played most of it at 2x speed on the DVD player, and it was still awful. If it were submitted as a project in a film class, it would not even receive an F. The student would be tossed out of the class. Low-budget video films have better production values. Why was the microphone in another room during the filming? Didn't anyone bother to check the focus? Did anyone actually READ the script? This film should come with a warning label: it can be dangerous to your cinematic consciousness.

While I don't agree with most here who say this is the worst movie I've ever seen, I certainly would classify it in my bottom five....

The premise *could* have been interesting. And if you're unfortunate enough to have rented this mess before reading these comments, it may help to watch the 'special features' (bunch of odd shorts) before, or instead of, the film. They're no better, but they have some shock value and, being shorts, do not drag on & on about nothing.

The shorts and other features on the DVD clarify, for me, what's really wrong: the filmmaker thinks he can succeed by doing little more than recording actions, sets, and dialog and calling it a movie. Everything else on the disc is as emptyheaded as the movie. The filmmaker seems proud of the film in the way you might be proud of spreading garbage over an acre of fresh lawn, that is, he thinks it's most important to be

The only noteworthy performer is Craig Pinkston, but only because he looks halfway hot in the brief scene with his shirt off.

Why are so many gay films being released with such bad quality? I am amazed. This was just about the stupidest excuse for a movie I have ever seen. Not a waste of talent either. A complete lack of talent. From the lighting. To the horrific sound quality. The bad score. The bad acting. The bad directing.Bad script. Bad bad bad. There are so many of these cheapie gay themed films coming out I am getting to the point where I am afraid to go see them. Seven out of every 10 gay films I have seen lately are just terrible. But this movie is the worst of them all. Don't waste your time or money on this film. trust me. This is a truly bad film.

Jorge Ameer has made a shockingly terrible movie. My boyfriend and I watched this surprisingly bad movie last night. The cover art on the DVD case made this seem like it was going to be a really good movie. But we really hated it. As an openly gay couple, we both were very insulted by this movie. It really lacked morals and suggested some very seedy situations.

And the directing was just about the worst you could ever imagine. No, scratch that. I really could never imagine a film being directed with such sloppy directing. Ever. Jorge Ameer has no business making movies. I don't know what his talents are but film making is not one of them.

I had fun reading the varied comments here, about "The Singing Forest". I thought the film had an interesting story idea, but it was not developed in the movie, at all. I agree with most all the negative comments about the directing, lousy sound, poor lighting, no action, etc. But, worst of all, our intelligence was insulted by an ignorant script which completely failed to deal with the basic story idea. It was so contrived that it should be named "The Groaning Forest". The actors did the best that could be expected with such a miserable script. I'm giving my copy to the local gay rights organization, with a warning "See it with friends who can make bad jokes about this taaackkkky flick, then you may get some chuckles."