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Very well executed

So much average

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The story is very week, the ending as well, the whole movie is unnecessary , I don't know why they've put in the money, time and energy to create such a very bad film with a very bad story

It's a non found-footage version of The Blair Witch Project... that's all you need to know.

I read the reviews before i watched the movie and it sounded quite promising. I don't know why this is classed as a horror. It wasn't scary at all, it actually wasn't good at all. Boring, slow and nothing happened.

The film is often compared to 'The Blair Witch Project'. Uhm, I agree only to a certain extent. Just because it is set in the woods and weird things start happening, does not necessarily deem it a Blair Witch wannabe. This is not found footage, thank goodness! I'd much rather compare the film to 'Dark was the night', set in a forest.Quite often characters take a shortcut for the fun of it or some other obscure silly reason. At least in this film they had a very good, acceptable reason for doing just that. The film became foreboding the second they set foot in the forest. It then grips you and never lets go. The film is believable thanks to simple settings and a good, believable cast. Rafe Spall in particular was exceptional, and deservedly won an award as Best Actor. Despite being creepy as hell and very compelling, the film also had depth and emotion and I really sympathized with Luke (Rafe Spall). This is a wonderful scenario where a personal dilemma affects judgement, and causes a lot more peril in the process. This was very believably done, and his dreams added to this testimony.The visual effects were amazing. I feared the film would become a gore fest as it progressed, but thankfully it never did and was substituted by suspense instead. This was a seriously tense film that never allowed the nerves to calm. Great climax, too.