In the Forest

I am always curious about the high reviews some of these *horrible* movies get. I often feel like maybe they watched a different movie with a similar title and got confused. And then I think that, perhaps, they were involved in the production of the movie. Or a family member of someone in the movie. There really aren't any more reasons that make sense to me. Particularly in this case.

This middle school film project starts off dumb and goes down hill quickly.

The first thing that makes zero sense is grampa's choice of camping locations. It's simply idiotic to think you can just drive out in the country and pick a spot on someone else's property.

Then, the RV get stuck on flat, solid ground.

The story isn't horrible, honestly, but the production is just garbage with some of the worst acting I've seen recently and I just watched Zombeavers last night.

I admit, I hit the fast forward button several to many times to skip through some of the horrible dialog but I believe I caught most of the salient plot points.

I don't mind a low budget movie about a family going camping in the woods and meeting with a bad guy who tells them to get off their land.

However, the actions taken by the various people (especially the mother) are so illogical and silly that the movie just becomes totally irritating. Awful script and bad acting.

This movie HAD potential, but lost it, starting when the lead characters (the mother & daughter) arrived at the campsite. Thus, was the beginning of flaw after flaw after flaw. The mother gets into an argument with the daughter & acts more like a little kid than the daughter. The mother lacks ANY common sense in emergiency situations & can't make rational decisions. When the daughter is confronted by a psychotic teen, she leaves her best weapon (a shotgun) & runs (toward the psycho) into the RV bathroom to hide. Teens are not as stupid as this girl portrays. I don't have enough room to continue with the flaws in this movie. DON'T do like I did (watch the entire flick)... be better than me; watch something/anything else (twice).

I am always annoyed at the argument that a low budget movie can not be judged by the standards as big money productions. I strongly disagree with that. The inconsistencies throughout the movie and lack of acting talent where appalling and have nothing to do with the budget. Absolutely not worthwhile to give it a shot. I regret having spent the time on it.

Saw this a while ago... don't remember much. It's that stupid. I seem to have survived the fright scenes, no residual ptsd! I also recall the grandfather being the worst actor among the amateur cast.