Stars: Daniela Love, Jorge Mota, Mafalda Banquart, Lígia Roque, Lília Lopes, Tiago Jácome, Débora Ribeiro | Written and Directed by José Pedro Lopes
Portugal isn’t a country you would associate with horror movies. In fact, I can’t think of one other Portuguese horror movie I have even heard of. So I was looking forward to what The Forest of the Lost Souls had to offer. The forest in the title is apparently Portugal’s most popular forest for people to commit suicide. Not a title the tourist board promote I assume!
The story follows two people, a man in his fifties and a woman about late teens/early twenties who meet in the forest. Both there to end their lives but two very different people. And the first half of the film is an interesting ‘odd couple’ back and forth as they walk through the tress together talking about...
Portugal isn’t a country you would associate with horror movies. In fact, I can’t think of one other Portuguese horror movie I have even heard of. So I was looking forward to what The Forest of the Lost Souls had to offer. The forest in the title is apparently Portugal’s most popular forest for people to commit suicide. Not a title the tourist board promote I assume!
The story follows two people, a man in his fifties and a woman about late teens/early twenties who meet in the forest. Both there to end their lives but two very different people. And the first half of the film is an interesting ‘odd couple’ back and forth as they walk through the tress together talking about...
- 10/12/2018
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
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