Last night, I could not bring myself to a point to type up
this review, I was so frustrated by the movie and the overwhelming amount of predictable
and clichéd moments. What was that film? It was the 2014 no budget found
footage flick Spirit in the Woods.
Plot/ The fate of five local college students who went
missing in the infamous Spiritual Woods is finally unraveled as previously
unreleased footage is made public for the first time. Long thought to be dead,
the truth turns out to be much worse.
There are times where found footage can be used effectively
and create something interesting. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true and
the movies do not pan out even when they have a decent storyline. That was
definitely the case with this film. While I do applaud any movie that grew out
of a Kickstarter project, and I love no-budget horror, there are times when I
just cannot relate or feel anything in a film, and for me, that happened with
this film. In fact, I lost so much interest because of the lack of connection,
that it did not create any type of reaction. The dialog was all over, the
performances uneven at best, and much of it made very little sense (unless you
can totally relate to wandering in the woods). Really, it just felt like a subpar
version of the Blair Witch Project. In
the end, even with my love of low budget and crowd-funded horror, I could not
see anything that would make this worth watching again. Stay Away!
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