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When three friends go hiking in Dartmoor jealousies, sexual tensions and strained relationships come to a head turning what should have been a peaceful camping adventure into a terror trip. As collective paranoia reaches fever pitch it becomes clear that there is a much darker force at work in their ancient eerie surroundings. Who or what is after them? And can any one of them survive a night in the woods?
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: When three friends go hiking in Dartmoor jealousies, sexual tensions and strained relationships come to a head turning what should have been a peaceful camping adventure into a terror trip. As collective paranoia reaches fever pitch it becomes clear that there is a much darker force at work in their ancient eerie surroundings. Who or what is after them? And can any one of them survive a night in the woods? ...A Night in the Woods
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By Big Mike
Format:DVD
This truly terrible film has only two things going for it. One is the very lovely Anna Skellern. The other is the filming on Dartmoor and in Wistman's Woods. Neither are enough to save this truly dreadful film. The male characters are both very unlikeable and it takes forever for anything interesting to happen. Even the "making of" special feature seems to go on forever. It might have worked better as a straightforward horror film rather than being made as a ripoff of the "Blair Witch" style of filmaking. And it is also very boring.
By Albatross
Format:DVD
It's amazing that this film was ever made. Not because it's particularly bad, but simply because I can't imagine the sales pitch that financed it. It must have gone along the lines of: `A Night in the Woods is a film that's shot entirely from the point of view of a single camera operator and is about three friends who go hiking in the woods, only to get picked off by an evil witch.'
Surely the studio executive listening to that pitch would have said, `Yeah, but... isn't that the Blair Witch Project?' And they'd be right. Only this one is made in England. Otherwise it's pretty similar.
As I say, it's not as bad as it could be. The three characters are pretty amusing and there's a fair bit of UK vs US banter between the English girl and her American boyfriend, plus they're pretty realistic in the way they all interact. Then there's the scenery. The film is a decent advert for the English countryside, showing some really scenic shots of Dartmoor. These become increasingly creepy as the night vision techniques are used.
However, from a promising start, we're soon treated to a pub-load of country bumpkins that happen to tell them sinister tales, foretelling what's to come (ala every other film of this type). Then, after a long build up with nothing vaguely supernatural happening, odd things start to occur (and one of the three vanishes mysteriously, again, just like Blair Witch).
I thought that perhaps it shouldn't have been filmed from the first-person and the film-makers should have stuck with a more simple approach. At least that way it would be a little less like Blair Witch.... Read more ›
Surely the studio executive listening to that pitch would have said, `Yeah, but... isn't that the Blair Witch Project?' And they'd be right. Only this one is made in England. Otherwise it's pretty similar.
As I say, it's not as bad as it could be. The three characters are pretty amusing and there's a fair bit of UK vs US banter between the English girl and her American boyfriend, plus they're pretty realistic in the way they all interact. Then there's the scenery. The film is a decent advert for the English countryside, showing some really scenic shots of Dartmoor. These become increasingly creepy as the night vision techniques are used.
However, from a promising start, we're soon treated to a pub-load of country bumpkins that happen to tell them sinister tales, foretelling what's to come (ala every other film of this type). Then, after a long build up with nothing vaguely supernatural happening, odd things start to occur (and one of the three vanishes mysteriously, again, just like Blair Witch).
I thought that perhaps it shouldn't have been filmed from the first-person and the film-makers should have stuck with a more simple approach. At least that way it would be a little less like Blair Witch.... Read more ›
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By brad1654
Format:DVD
This film does not work on any level. Its nowhere near Blair witch as described, no atmosphere or horror just 3 boring fools fumbling around the Moor, no one is after them at all! the setting of Dartmoor is the only thing going for it, don't waste your money like I did.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By SamJones99
Format:DVD
Take Blair Witch, add some weird sexual tension and place it in a English forest. Welcome to A Night In The Woods.
Using a similar blueprint to the found footage classic, the movie ups the scares by adding a sense of genuine malice between the two male characters who have enough to contend with as paranoia that they are not alone in an extremely isolated location.
When found footage works, tiny details created by happenstance often make or break the movie. In this case, as cast members point a night vision camera into the gloom a moth hitting the lens is enough to make you jump. When a girl lies knocked out, a beetle creeping over a nearby stone is a nice touch that can't be faked (well it could be, obviously, but it isn't...).
A Night In The Woods is an interesting movie. As much an examination of a man who only wants to view the world as mediated through his camera - which he uses to obsessively keep a video diary - as it is a tense wilderness horror film, taste will dictate whether you enjoy the shaky cam fright flick experience, but if you do, this one should satisfy.
A Night in the Woods [DVD]
Using a similar blueprint to the found footage classic, the movie ups the scares by adding a sense of genuine malice between the two male characters who have enough to contend with as paranoia that they are not alone in an extremely isolated location.
When found footage works, tiny details created by happenstance often make or break the movie. In this case, as cast members point a night vision camera into the gloom a moth hitting the lens is enough to make you jump. When a girl lies knocked out, a beetle creeping over a nearby stone is a nice touch that can't be faked (well it could be, obviously, but it isn't...).
A Night In The Woods is an interesting movie. As much an examination of a man who only wants to view the world as mediated through his camera - which he uses to obsessively keep a video diary - as it is a tense wilderness horror film, taste will dictate whether you enjoy the shaky cam fright flick experience, but if you do, this one should satisfy.
A Night in the Woods [DVD]
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By D. Dent
Format:DVD
A few tips for budding 'found footage' film makers:
1. By the very nature of what you're doing you're ripping off THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. It isn't necessary to set up bits of your movie that directly copy scenes from the original films. Try to avoid ripped tents (also tents messed about by 'unseen' forces), and senseless screaming (both from your main characters and the 'disembodied screams in the night' variety)
2. Your cast are filming on camcorders. Do not therefore actually film on much better equipment as it spoils the illusion (unless you can disguise the professional camerawork to look like cheap camcorder footage).
3. Never forget who's doing the filming. If there's a scene where all three central characters are being filmed (ie the only ones supposed to be in the movie) and no-one has a camera in their hands, then someone else is filming. This is not good. Same advice applies in the 'action' scenes.
4. To paraphrase Steve Martin in TRAINS, PLANES AND AUTOMOBILES, have a bloody point to what you're doing. It makes it so much more interesting for the audience.
5. Not a great idea to have lots of different music over the end credits for a 'found footage' movie. The ending's bound to be a bummer. Let silence do the work for you.
Thanks.
1. By the very nature of what you're doing you're ripping off THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. It isn't necessary to set up bits of your movie that directly copy scenes from the original films. Try to avoid ripped tents (also tents messed about by 'unseen' forces), and senseless screaming (both from your main characters and the 'disembodied screams in the night' variety)
2. Your cast are filming on camcorders. Do not therefore actually film on much better equipment as it spoils the illusion (unless you can disguise the professional camerawork to look like cheap camcorder footage).
3. Never forget who's doing the filming. If there's a scene where all three central characters are being filmed (ie the only ones supposed to be in the movie) and no-one has a camera in their hands, then someone else is filming. This is not good. Same advice applies in the 'action' scenes.
4. To paraphrase Steve Martin in TRAINS, PLANES AND AUTOMOBILES, have a bloody point to what you're doing. It makes it so much more interesting for the audience.
5. Not a great idea to have lots of different music over the end credits for a 'found footage' movie. The ending's bound to be a bummer. Let silence do the work for you.
Thanks.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By FlashhGordon
Format:DVD
Ever since the success of `Paranormal Activity' and `Grave Encounters', there has been a rise in Supernatural based Found Footage films, it's about time someone revisited the open wooded setting, such as the excellent `Blair Witch Project', this is exactly what Richard Parry offers us. `A Night in the Woods' tells the story of Brody (Scoot McNairy, star of Gareth Edwards breathtaking monster road-trip movie `Monsters'), his girlfriend Kerry (Anna Skellern) and her cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley), as they go hiking in Dartmoor's Wistman's Woods.
I grew up loving Dartmoor; it is almost a second home to me. As a child I was told the myths, legends and ghost stories that surrounded Dartmoor, it was these stories that kept me awake as a child, and made me scared to fall asleep on those foggy, pitch black nights on the moors, so as you can already tell, the setting is already a plus for me. The film starts with Brody filming Kerry, asking her questions of where she was the night before and why she didn't wake him up when she got back, already we can see Brody is that over-protective and paranoid partner, following these questions; they start to get ready for their trip. Halfway through the car journey they pick up Kerry's "Cousin", Leo, from a train station, before we meet Leo, you can tell Brody is already unhappy about his presence on their camping trip, as Leo enters the car, there is awkward conversation, tension and an uncomfortable atmosphere, at this point we already know there are secrets being kept.
Our first similarity to `Blair Witch' is a scene in a Dartmoor pub where Brody is filming the locals telling Ghost stories about Wistman's woods, after hearing these stories we know they aren't in for a good night.... Read more ›
I grew up loving Dartmoor; it is almost a second home to me. As a child I was told the myths, legends and ghost stories that surrounded Dartmoor, it was these stories that kept me awake as a child, and made me scared to fall asleep on those foggy, pitch black nights on the moors, so as you can already tell, the setting is already a plus for me. The film starts with Brody filming Kerry, asking her questions of where she was the night before and why she didn't wake him up when she got back, already we can see Brody is that over-protective and paranoid partner, following these questions; they start to get ready for their trip. Halfway through the car journey they pick up Kerry's "Cousin", Leo, from a train station, before we meet Leo, you can tell Brody is already unhappy about his presence on their camping trip, as Leo enters the car, there is awkward conversation, tension and an uncomfortable atmosphere, at this point we already know there are secrets being kept.
Our first similarity to `Blair Witch' is a scene in a Dartmoor pub where Brody is filming the locals telling Ghost stories about Wistman's woods, after hearing these stories we know they aren't in for a good night.... Read more ›
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lame Found Footage.
The core story does not hang together and nor does the second half of this derivative and un-scary Brit Horror. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. M. G. Blake
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Devils Of Dartmoor
Following the death of her father, Kerry(Anna Skellern), accompanies her American boyfriend Brody(Scoot McNairy) and the mysterious Leo, possibly her cousin, on a camping trip into... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good film. Poor ending.
With the premise being a standard fare for these sort of movies; friends go camping and something's not right, this is a good slow burner with only three characters. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Boa
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