Red Woods

2021

Action / Adventure / Horror / Mystery

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 45%
IMDb Rating 3.6/10 10 803 803

found footage

Plot summary

A group of urbex enthusiasts travel to the backwoods of Appalachia to capture footage of abandoned houses, when they unwittingly become the subjects of a much darker video - made by a different kind of "enthusiast".

Director

Nicholas Danko Photo
Nicholas Danko

Top cast

Augustus Danko Photo
Augustus Danko as Gus
Neil Baney Photo
Neil Baney as Old Shack Man
Robert J. Wood Photo
Robert J. Wood as Shack Shooter
Phil Henderson Photo
Phil Henderson as Phil
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870.12 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
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1.74 GB
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by costie 4 / 10

Failed narrative technique

Reviewed by photo-otohp15 3 / 10

All I'm Saying....

Is that if a group of five strangers barged my home with a video camera and a gun, I'd grab my gun, and be ready to shoot.Idk, after that scene, it got hard to root for these people. I get where they were coming from for sure, but if you look at it from the two guys' perspective, that'd be absolutely terrifying, especially when you're living off the grid to avoid stuff like that.Serial pyro/killer guy was an interesting concept, but making it a revenge story made it less scary and more sad. I suppose there isn't anything wrong with that, but it also made that plot point more predictable, and kinda..... lackluster.
Reviewed by kbtoys100 3 / 10

An Urbexer's Perspective

As someone who explores abandoned buildings, I love watching movies about the hobby, as they are rarely ever realistic and provide a nice laugh. Red Woods is one such film.The premise is cool: a group of people embark on a days-long trek into the woods to check out some abandoned houses and begin to find some strange things: a bloody mattress and a forgotten cemetery. The cinematography is gorgeous; they have some professional cameras, stabilizers, and a drone. The effects are pretty good and it's clear they spent some money on things.The problem is everything else. The editing cuts bizarrely mid-sentence multiple times and it seems several scenes of plot are just missing altogether. The last half of the film becomes nearly incomprehensible. There are way too many characters and no one acts remotely like a normal human being would.For example: the bodies. Both groups find dead bodies in these abandoned homes yet don't bother to tell each other and are joking about it less than a minute later.Then that night for some reason one character attacks another and a random man shows up and tells a scary story to which NOBODY questions why he is there other than someone whispering 'who is he?'The next day someone, I didn't even know who, disappeared. Then our characters find some cliche hillbilly's and murder them in self defense, which again doesn't bother them.There is also a VERY confusing subplot about a "first team" that left beforehand they are going to meet up with and two of the group possibly being some sort of x-files type government agents.I can only imagine that writer/director Nicholas Danko watched a lot of the popular urbex videos with clickbait titles such as "found bodies!" "Secret test lab!" Etc and based this all on that.Found footage movies are meant to suspend our disbelief more so than a regular film, essentially telling the viewer 'hey, this is real' but literally nothing in Red Woods would make someone believe that. In addition to the previously mentioned issues, the acting by just about everyone comes off as kids in a high school play. The psychic girl, Jack (referred to as Jax in one scene by everyone) is the only one that shows some minor talent, and her friend is passable. The woodsman explorer guy, Cross is so horrible in his 'breakdown' scene after falling on a body that it gives new meaning to the word 'stilted'Red Woods should have been a simple, fun setup but Danko is unable to tell a coherent story. Slick production levels alone do not make it watchable either.
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