It was a rather unpleasant experience, staying awake for the entire run time of The Village in the Woods, as it provided no scares, tension, just a lot of awkward moments between the characters. Scenes beyond cringy any time there was any interaction on screen, a finale revealing itself midway through, and genuinely no normal reactions from pretty much anyone involved in the plot.

I do believe both the script and the direction were complete misfires, coming off only as, somewhat eerie but relying too much on unnatural moments, decisions and irrational thinking.

I don't find it easy to recommend it, even for the die hard fans of in the woods horrors, I for one felt disappointed and somewhat tricked, into waiting and thinking that maybe there will be more than what was clearly coming, but no such thing happened here.

Cheers!

"Rebecca" (Beth Park) and boyfriend "Jason" (Robert Vernon) arrive in a remote village to take over an old pub they have inherited. The locals seem friendly enough, but after a while things begin to take on a more menacing note as the residents begin to gradually overwhelm their new visitors, and it is soon clear that they have an agenda against which the pair have very little defence. This has been made on the most shoestring of budgets - the attempts to create the Satanic visual effects rely on way too little wattage and on a score that is overly repetitive. The acting is pretty wooden, and by the end I had pretty much lost interest. That said, though - it is a serous effort from all concerned and though it doesn't really work, I think that is because there is a general lack of talent all round, thus ensuring this cannot get to any level where anyone interested in the genre would sit up and take note. This is weakly scripted and rather statically directed, but I didn't hate it.

How could that be a 6.5? Speechless. It's below 5 a must. Not scary, pace slow. Bad bad bad