The Lost Tree

After a tragedy strikes, a young man moves to an isolated cabin to start a new life. The Lost Tree is definitely not a bad film, it's just like the writer/director couldn't decide if he wanted to make a drama or a mystery/horror film.

First of all, there is such thing as too much music in movie. The background music is overdone, it's distracting and overbearing. Horror movie should not make you feel like there is an orchestra playing somewhere while main character is going into dark basement. Overbearing, loud and really annoying music will not make any moment more tense or more emotional, it will be just: annoying. I don't want to hear bloody orchestra playing in what's supposed to be tense moment when main character is in some dire situation. I don't want overbearing "sad" music when he has a flashback, it's just too much!

Second, the characters' reactions are so unbelievable and unrealistic it's ridiculous, it's not even funny. Who says "wtf" when sees an intruder in his rented cabin and just goes to sleep? And his conversations to himself are super cringe and such bad acting. Michael Madsen and Lacey Chabert are completely under-used and get 5 minutes onscreen while this other actor gets all the time, don't know his name but he is not really good, sorry. His reactions are unrealistic, his love story does not have any realistic feelings no matter how much orchestra in background is trying to play "sad" music, his behavior is totally out of place and unbelievable.

Third, there is no story. What happened? No explanation. Nothing makes sense. No resolution. This is so bad, I have no words.

Horrible acting, music, and effects. It had me laughing the whole time. I could barely make it through 10 mins. The storyline makes no sense, and the ending was sloppily but together. Maybe if this was in the comedy genre instead of horror, I might give it 5 stars...I've watched tons of 'B' horror movies on Netflix and not one of them was nearly as bad as this.

The plot seems to veer from paranormal to romance with neither going anywhere. A couple of spooky scenes with shadow people. Overall, had the character of Noah been played by a better actor as well as the pace been faster it would have been a better film. Looking for scares or gore? Skip it. If you like Lifetime Originals, you might want to give it a look.

This film is not perfect but it kept my interests the entire time. The feeling that this movie made me feel was a feeling of sadness, fear, mystery. It kept me interest throughout. The acting was fairly decent with a special nod to Scott Grimes for his comical relief.

That's not to say the film didn't have it's problems. There were budgetary restraints but that said, the effects in this film were pretty good. There were some sound issues as well. The third act is very good as the pace goes from slow to very fast. Overall, I enjoyed this film.