After screening this movie at the Savannah Film Festival with Mr. D'Onofrio in the audience and speaking briefly after, I still left very disappointed. Taken at face value, it is a horror musical. Cheesy score, awful singing (musically speaking), mediocre setting (the woods that we surely all traipsed through as kids) and no acting. If that is the intent, it succeeded. BUT I always appreciated this director as an actor- intense, smart and able to peel away the layers of a character and reveal them to the audience with talent and skill often unmatched in feature films and certainly on network television. I imagine the film was enjoyable to make, as he compiled friends and fellow movie makers to make a film in a short period of time, but it served no purpose that I could tell- other than to make people laugh and shake their heads at the absurdity.
Review of Don't Go in the Woods
