You know the drill: Three young folks decide to venture deep into the woods and something terrible happens to them. So far, so familiar. So is this any good? Alas, no. It's just okay instead. For starters, writer/director Richard Parry spends way too much time with the three main characters talking, cursing, and bickering up a storm, which becomes pretty tiresome about a half hour in. Secondly, Parry crucially fails to generate any essential tension or creepy atmosphere. Fortunately, the abundant English countryside on display looks beautiful and the three lead cast members do respectable work in their roles, with Anna Skellern a particular stand-out throughout. Moreover, the last fifteen minutes are fairly harrowing. But overall this movie serves as an example of too much build-up with too little pay-off, thereby dooming the whole thing to instantly forgettable outright mediocrity.
Review of A Night in the Woods
