7 creepy but addictive forest horror movies
Miscellaneous / / October 27, 2021
After these pictures, you will stop loving nature trips for a long time.
1. Ghost forest
The forest
- USA, 2015.
- Horror, thriller, detective.
- Duration: 93 minutes.
- IMDb: 4.8.
Sarah learns that her twin sister, who worked as an English teacher in Japan, is missing. The girl feels that the relative is alive and needs help. The traces lead the heroine to the Aokigahara forest, where the Japanese come to commit suicide. Enlisting the support of journalist Aiden and a local volunteer, Sarah leaves the hiking trail, which is strongly discouraged, and goes into the thicket.
Aokigahara exists in reality, indeed, several dozen dead are found there every year. But director Jason Zada was not allowed to film in a real forest, so the film was filmed in Serbia. Nevertheless, the authors managed to convey the mystical atmosphere of Aokigahara quite well.
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2. Gretel and Hansel
Gretel & Hansel
- USA, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, 2020.
- Horror, fantasy.
- Duration: 87 minutes.
- IMDb: 5.4.
A distraught single mother drives her children, Hansel and Gretel, out of the house, because she cannot feed them. Wandering through the cold forest, the brother and sister find a small house. An elderly woman lives there who turns out to be a witch. She sees in Gretel a kindred spirit and is not going to just let the travelers go.
Director Oz Perkins not only rethought the traditional fairytale plot of the Brothers Grimm, but also highlighted the female character - it was not for nothing that the title of the picture was castled. In addition, Gretel has become much older than her brother, and is played by her star of the horror "It" and the TV series "Sharp objects»Sofia Lillis.
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3. Coco di Coco da
Koko-di koko-da
- Sweden, Denmark, 2019.
- Horror, drama.
- Duration: 89 minutes.
- IMDb: 5.9.
The spouses have a little daughter dying. In the hope of improving their relationship, the couple goes to rest in nature. Not having time to reach their destination, the heroes decide to pitch a tent in the forest. And at night strange circus performers come out of the thicket, and now the husband and wife will have to die over and over again trying to hide from these infernal creatures.
Johannes Nyholm's debut was dubbed bloody Groundhog Day in the press. But even in this story, the heroes of which are unsuccessfully trying to change the undesirable outcome for them, it is easy to see the metaphor of a deep misunderstandings in family.
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4. Ritual
The ritual
- UK, Canada, 2017.
- Horror, drama.
- Duration: 94 minutes.
- IMDb: 6.3.
Four former classmates go camping after a friend dies. To honor his memory, they go to the places that the deceased loved. On the way, one of the heroes twists his leg, and therefore the friends decide to take a shortcut through the remaining path through the forest. More often they come across an abandoned hut and decide to spend the night in it, but in vain.
Director David Bruckner started out as a director of short films: he directed the best episodes of horror almanacs "Z / L / O /" and "Monsters of the South". His full-length debut scares not with realistic violence and screamers, but with psychologism and a sticky atmosphere of horror, which will then haunt the audience for a long time.
5. Blair Witch: Coursework from the Beyond
The blair witch project
- USA, 1999.
- Horror, drama.
- Duration: 81 minutes.
- IMDb: 6.5.
Students Heather, Joshua, and Mike come to the forest to film a documentary about witch from Blair as term paper. The guys lose the map and manage to get lost in the thicket, and then it starts to seem to them that someone is driving them in circles and does not allow them to get out.
The work of Daniel Mirik and Eduardo Sanchez became a real hit. The film was able to stand out from other horror films thanks to the delicate balance between pseudo-documentary and drama. In addition, the directors positioned the picture as a real recording of the events that happened in Maryland. And many viewers believed that there was a real chronicle of a witch on the screen.
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6. Witch
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
- Canada, USA, 2015.
- Horror, drama.
- Duration: 92 minutes.
- IMDb: 6.9.
17th century, New England. The family of a farmer expelled from the settlement settles at the edge of the forest to run their own household. But they are haunted by one misfortune after another. First, the harvest dies, and then the newborn baby, who was looked after by his older sister Thomasin, disappears without a trace. And then the girl's own mother will begin to suspect her daughter of witchcraft.
Director Robert Eggers has been obsessed with spooky stories about witches since childhood. He borrowed many of the dialogues for the film from old documents on the trials of people accused of witchcraft. In addition, Eggers tried to shoot the tape as believable as possible: the actors spoke Old English, and the filming was carried out in natural light.
The result was one of the most impressive horror films of the 21st century, which glorified the director himself and the actress who played the main role - the talented Anya Taylor-Joy.
7. Shed in a woods
The cabin in the woods
- USA, 2011.
- Horror, black comedy, fantasy.
- Duration: 95 minutes.
- IMDb: 7.0.
Five students come to a secluded forest house for a good weekend getaway. In the basement, they find a strange book and read aloud a spell that unleashes the zombies. But these are far from all the troubles that await them.
Drew Goddard's directorial debut exploits horror genre clichés very accurately. After watching "Cabin in the Woods" it becomes clear why heroes in horror films behave illogically and why they are killed in a certain order.
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