The Wicked Woods (I) (2014)
4/10
No matter what you hear, stay in the house
23 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I watched this Chilean film in Spanish with English subtitles. The film starts out with two teens, preteens (?) Reuben and Lenora in the woods. Leonora runs off, Reuben follows and is stopped by an ominous figure. Years later adult Reuben (Iñigo Urrutia) hooks up with married woman Laura (Catherine Mazoyer) in a cabin near the same woods. They were old lovers who had drifted apart. Laura married Francisco and has two daughters.

Reuben tells Laura a creepy story involving a local persecuted sect who died in a fire. Laura tells Reuben she is pregnant with his child. Weird things happen outside the cabin...

I thought the film had an interesting plot and ending. There was zero character introduction and whatever the incident was in the past was told to us in two lines. A visual would have been nice. I felt the production crawled too much. It took me half the film to figure out Laura wasn't the lost Leonora.

Guide: No swearing. No sex. Nudity (Ximena del Solar)
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