A village gets attacked by humanoid tree demons. one of the inhabitants tries to rescue the abducted women and discovers her sinister heritage.
if this flick had a little more intentional humour it could pass as a spinoff movie for the possessed tree in evil dead, which has clearly been of significant inspiration. this would have required a little improvement of the acting and more focus on the characters, though.
what we do get it violence-loads of it. the methods available to these wooden wretches when it comes to killing are manifold and include, but not only, fiercely smashing bodies against trunks, splitting skulls, ripping ribcages open and of course strangling by vines while blood spatters the whole forest. the graphic deaths won't prepare you for the.. cerature responsible for this carnage and its doings. let's just hint to a handful of truly nasty sexual scenes, minor cannibalism and even incest.
if all those reasons are not enough for you to watch, skip it. if they are, you will surely admire, as i did, the special effects and makeup. horror movies in forests are usually endangered to becoming horribly tedious and showing all the non-existant budget. but while it's obvious they didn't have a lot of money to work with, the carnage is arranged in an entertaining if not always convincing way. the part that will surely stick with me are the masks of the demonic minions. it's hard to tell if they're bugs - there's a slight resemblance to the District 9 aliens -, animated trees or cultists with masks; either way they're genuinely terrifying. one peculiar scene shows the 'birth' of one of them, and this sight is one not easy to forget.
if this flick had a little more intentional humour it could pass as a spinoff movie for the possessed tree in evil dead, which has clearly been of significant inspiration. this would have required a little improvement of the acting and more focus on the characters, though.
what we do get it violence-loads of it. the methods available to these wooden wretches when it comes to killing are manifold and include, but not only, fiercely smashing bodies against trunks, splitting skulls, ripping ribcages open and of course strangling by vines while blood spatters the whole forest. the graphic deaths won't prepare you for the.. cerature responsible for this carnage and its doings. let's just hint to a handful of truly nasty sexual scenes, minor cannibalism and even incest.
if all those reasons are not enough for you to watch, skip it. if they are, you will surely admire, as i did, the special effects and makeup. horror movies in forests are usually endangered to becoming horribly tedious and showing all the non-existant budget. but while it's obvious they didn't have a lot of money to work with, the carnage is arranged in an entertaining if not always convincing way. the part that will surely stick with me are the masks of the demonic minions. it's hard to tell if they're bugs - there's a slight resemblance to the District 9 aliens -, animated trees or cultists with masks; either way they're genuinely terrifying. one peculiar scene shows the 'birth' of one of them, and this sight is one not easy to forget.
