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Five
friends go on a camping trip in the forest. Next
to the path they find a pile of rocks which they decide
to fool around with, what they don't know is that
they've just awoken the evil spirits hidden inside
the dark forest. Soon enough the friends start turning
into ghost-zombies one by one. Luckily one of them
is psychic and can figure all this out pretty quickly.
But will that save the remaining friends from the
terrible faith that the others have suffered?
In South Korea, Dark Forest was the last movie in the
"4 Horror Tales" series to get released. Coincidence?
I doubt it. While the other movies in this series were
between average to really good, Dark Forest is a
complete and utter disaster, so they sure saved the worst
for last. Probably a clever move though since I don't
think that anyone would want to watch another movie
in this series after having seen this atrocious mess.
The ridiculous plot revolves around five teens who are
on a camping trip in the forest, unaware of the evil
that lurks inside of it. Is it a creature? No. Is it
a serial killer? No. It's the woods itself - portrayed
as an invisible man with a shadow. How ridiculous is
that? Anyway, the killer shadow quickly becomes a
forgotten character when the friends start turning
into ghost-zombies. Because you see, if your blood
touches any part of the forest, the forest will absorb
you and turn you into a killing machine (hahaha). One
of the teens is naturally psychic which helps them a
lot to figure out what's going on, but this idea is
also dropped as the movie goes along.
In other words, the invisible woodsman was just a poor
excuse for killing the first guy and the chick being
psychic was just an easy way to make the characters
understand what was going on. You'd think that a movie
about a bunch of killer ghost-zombies would at least be
gory, but no. While the movie is filled with blood
splatter and suggested gore in order to make the
audience believe that it's a gory movie, there's
actually no real gore in it - if you know what I'm saying.
While the other "4 Horror Tales" have at least looked
good, Dark Forest really managed to live up to its
title. This movie is pitch black for most of the time
and I'm only lucky to have a flat screen TV because this
would be close to impossible to tell what was going on,
on a regular TV-screen. The directing is average at
best and the editing is very questionable with a
strange flashing effect accompanied by a loud explosion
sound. I think it was meant to be cool but to me it
just felt odd and annoying.
Now that I've seen all of the movies in the 4 Horror
Tales saga, I can safely say that I enjoyed "February
29" the most and "Dark Forest" the least. The other
two were average and pretty forgettable so ultimately,
there's only one movie in this series really worth
checking out - and it's not Dark Forest.
A lot of blood splatter and some suggested gore, but
no real gore can be found in here.
Silly "Halloween" sounding theme which fails to create
any kind of real atmosphere. Oh and the sound effects
were just awful.
Dark Forest is without a doubt the worst movie in this
South Korean horror saga and I'm glad that this was
the last one of them. If you're going to watch this
series, make sure that you watch Dark Forest last because
otherwise you won't make it to the other three. This
one was just ridiculously bad.
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