Let's Not Meet in the Woods

Three girls with, cameras attached, instead of brains. Add a stalker or maybe more. Plus some old cult. Then wonder, are these kids that supid? Lets film it all and broadcast it, because there is no way the stalker is (not) watching. Some children should be kept far from social media. Hopefully real ones are smarter. (I bet not.)

I think these young actors still need more training or practice. They still don't seem natural on camera. I know it's suppose to be like an action cam movie but I've seen kid You Tubers act more natural that this. I think for kid views it's OK. Kinda like watching kids on YTV's Goosebumps or Are you afraid of the dark. The camera shakes too much even though it's a action cam, a steady cam would be better. The panning of the camera is too fast that you cannot get a focus on anything more than 2 seconds. Getting dizzy just watching the camera shaking everywhere. Really bad editing job even with closeups on things.

(so far) my favorite of these Ryan Callaway micro-budget, handmade, homegrown horrors - inspirational filmmaking that shows what a person can do with creativity, imagination and commitment with a close-knit crew/cast just as committed to it - they're rough around the edges and maybe not everything works - but more exciting in their idiosyncrasies than the pre-processed, factory-made, easy-to-swallow blandness of the same-old-same-old.. there's some weird and creepy stuff going on in these movies - with an off-kilter blend of strange naturalism and stranger anti-realism and a kind of organic randomness that gives them a kind of believability - mixed with familiar, classic horror tropes - from "real-world" horrors, stalker/slasher horror, lost-in-the woods scares - to the fantastical like Satan worshiping cults and demons.. I somehow stumbled onto this one and then watched 2 more -The Ghost In The Darkness and Let's Not Meet - all three are connected and work off of each other - dealing in different ways with the same "mythology" that runs through them - like world-building on a small, personal, do-it-yourself scale.. not without flaws and shortcomings - but the sheer individual-ness of these have me hoping to be able to track down some more of them.. Biggest gripe with Let's Not Meet In The Woods: the too-brief scene on the boardwalk of what looked to be a favorite Jersey Shore beach town of mine left me wanting to see more of it - but they promptly went and split for woods of the title instead..

I am a big fan of indie movies, and I applaud the effort, but with THAT being said, if you are serious about making movies, and putting them out there, then you shouldn't be adverse to criticism/notes:

The script was AWFUL. Nothing about it worked. The stuff about "the police said to delete those messages"...seriously? No cop would say that. Nothing made a single bit of sense -the "cops are watching outside" they said to reassure themselves and their viewers after receiving a scary box, yet they don't take any new evidence to the cops because they don't want to "bother them". Really?.....

Soooo now they are going to someone's cabin who only has a landline with no cell reception, and I guess they don't think "hmmm,someone has been following me around and leaving creepy messages, I guess they won't follow me up here." So they go up, wander around like morons (I love where they find a pristine looking music box and say -it's been here for years" and don't really give 2 thoughts about the blood that is cleanly inside one of the drawers.

Then some random (cult members maybe?) show up at some point

DON'T USE YOUR FAMILY/FRIENDS as actors!!!!! Unless they can actually act). I wasn't sure if I was watching a mockumentory for awhile (about an hour in), it is SO freaking bad.

If you are going to put in the effort to make a movie and to put it out there, (with hopes of people noticing you in a POSITIVE way) then get people who can actually act.

There are good actors out there who would work for free!!

As a viewer, I want to root FOR the people I am watching, instead of hoping that they will ALL be killed. I'm not even entirely sure what the "twist" was supposed to really be. A cult, demon, what?..... 1.5 hours of nonsense. The only reason I watched to the very end was to because I already invested so much #$*&@&#$ time into it, I was hoping there would be a good ending.

The "Huram" demon guy made me LOL sooooo hard just from his voice!!!!

The demon makeup was the ONLY good thing in this (which was probably just a mask under dark light) for 20 seconds.

Awful awful awful writing/script. Not even rifftrax worthy.