Haunted Forest (2007)

Director:

Mauro Borrelli

Release Date:

26 June 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track...

Plot Keywords:

Nightmare | Evil Spirit | Deranged Man | Gagged And Bound | Hung By Wrists

Cast

Sevy Di Cione	...	Sean / Nodin
Adam Green	...	Josh
Mark Hengst	...	McCane
Edoardo Beghi	...	Flipp (as Edo Beghi on End Credits)
Naomi Ueno	...	Kiyomi
Jennifer Luree	...	Jennifer
Hans Uder	...	Tourist
Kiralee Hayashi	...	Satinka (as Kira Hayashi)
Vito di Natolo	...	Victim #1
Aldo Antonelli	...	Victim #3 (as Al Antonelli)
Luigi Campanile	...	Victim #2 (as Gigi Campanile)
Mauro Borrelli	...	Victim #4
Agim Kaba	...	J.R.
Justin Klosky	...	Skinny (Cowboy)
Clifford Neil	...	Cal (Cowboy)

Also Known As:

Satinka (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

USA:81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Fotocomics Productions

Horror movie that could have gone more than that.

I saw this movie recently. It seemed to be a typical scream-scare horror movie. But the underlying meaning could have meant something else if crafted with more nuances.

The story is about a Forrest which is haunted by a tree that hunts humans for a reason. A group of students came in search of such a legendary tree. One among them was the guy who has intentions to find it out though nobody knows about it's whereabouts. And what happens in their search is the story.

The special effects and other cheap scares are there in the movie. The director also uses the cut-in-the-middle of a scene tactics to increase the anxiety of the audience about what happened. The flash back story has to be more effective and could have been even lengthier to tell the tale of green peace. But the director slightly touches over it "the arrogance of man in killing trees".

If we see it in reality our human life is bound into trees. If there are not enough trees in this world to reduce the co2 the humans pollute in various ways, then the world is like a hell. We already see the global warming effects all over the world. The arctic and Antarctic zones are no more cold. The ice at the poles started melting and filling the ocean all over the world raising the sea levels. That is another cause for all these cyclones, climate changes, season changes. Even coastal cities would submerge into water in 50-100 years. Basically, the root cause is as we humans tend to live a planned life and we break the natural life cycle which was there for millions of years. Anybody who could have read this paragraph would have been horrified ? I bet not.

But watching this movie does scare you to some extent. And if you are able to correlate how human treats trees and what if the trees start to flare back at humans, then you could be scared morally. Becos we humans have no ethics towards non-human beings. But if things turned around? The last but one shot of the film at the end will show an empty wide open space where at one end the Forrest will be there and at the other end there will be a bull-dozer that destroys trees. The humans by destroying the Forrest, make the space empty and they 'go towards' that trend(the characters walking towards the bull-dozer direction). The trees on the other hand give them life by 'embedding them' inside like an pregnant mother. This is a correlation of the opposite natures where the loving mom becomes a monster.

Keep this in mind and start watching this movie. Probably you could realize the horror in trees killing humans ( which is the reverse of humans killing trees). If the film was able to contrast this difference strikingly then it would have been a never-before told moral-horror classic story.