My quick rating -Â 3.1/10. Our resident reviewer from The Castle Macabre has given me a heads-up on this one being a stinker but I elect to watch everything and this is the newest horror flick I have right now. When Marcus (James Jaysen Bryhan) a down-and-out, struggling filmmaker goes on a search for his missing sister in Spring Lakes, he encounters strange and mysterious occurrences in the form of a satanic cult. Marcus must find his sister before, he too, becomes engulfed by the living forest and suffers the same fate as his sister, Shiela (Samantha Loxley). Sure, it sounds promising enough but all we get is a mish-mosh of disjointed scenes that often do not seem to fit together. I believe Ranjeet S. Marwa was shooting more for the shock value at times instead of developing whatever story the writers were attempting to present. The scenes with the lunatic priest in the forest were entirely too long and so overacted they made Jim Carrey look subtle. But the acting woes were not just limited to that one character since they all seem to give it a shot and more often than not, fail. Scenes that were queued up with music to be spooky or scary ended up just looking silly and never amounted to the tension of the sound that accompanied it. Then again, maybe they would've been more effective had more attention gone to the confused storyline. It is unfortunate to me since I am a big supporter of indie flix and occasionally I caught a glimpse of a nice looking camera shot or angle hidden amongst the garbled story. But when my reaction after 110 minutes is "Whatever," you know it just wasn't worth the time. Overall, you are just going to want to pass up on this one unless a late-at-night freebie pops up and you need help sleeping.
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