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Wow! Such a good movie.

Absolutely Brilliant!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Log cabin, scary woods, humans going back to nature. Classic ingredients for a horror, which could either be painfully repetitive or well executed. It's certainly the latter. Shot like an autumn nightmare, the film is creepy even in the sunlight. It makes use of all the fading greens, browns and grays. It also does well in not overplaying the reality TV angle, in fact it's rarely mentioned. The characters are also mature young people, not maddeningly annoying teenagers. They develop throughout the movie and at no point does anybody do anything idiotically befuddling. No wonder there's a low body count with intelligent pray taking the focus. The ending does leave too many questions, despite giving a lot of answers in the last 2 minutes. A great horror watch.

Same concept, different country … Quite too many nowadays horror movies seem to revolve on friends or colleagues going into the woods for camping and/or team building activities but end up encountering 'something' evil (and mostly unseen) that gradually thins out the group's original number. This film is the Norwegian attempt at making a sinister backwoods mystery thriller. "Villmark", which is a so much cooler sounding title than the boring international title "Dark Woods", does benefice from a more ominous atmosphere and gloomier filming locations than most films in this trend, but eventually the lack of excitement reduces it yet another mildly disappointing genre effort. The script (too) patiently takes the time to introduce the characters and allow the camera to atmospherically swift through the eerie Kaupanger forests. More particularly the sober lake in the middle of the nearly impenetrable woods is impressively illustrated as the sixth main character in the story. The slow approach results in a handful of powerfully tense and creepy moments, but the film sadly fails to deliver REAL horror. The characters are slightly more likable than your average dim-witted American teen camper, but still they make one too many stupid decision when in peril and they stick around for far too long in an obviously life-threatening place. No matter how badly you want to work for a wealthy TV-producer, if you stumble upon a random corpse in a lake or become tied up over an ant-hill, you get the hell out of the woods! The arrogant and cocky producer Gunnar is working on a new reality-TV formula and engages four of his docile employees to test the idea and scout the locations. Gunnar turns out to be a sadist and manipulating dictator and even forbids the others to call the police when they discover the corpse of a drowned woman in the lake. But the woman's death wasn't accidental, as something malignant seems to dwell the lake area ever since a German army plane crashed down there during the War. The grim photography and unsettling musical score are clearly the biggest trumps "Villmark" has to offer, as the story and especially the frights are extremely mundane and unspectacular. The climax sequences try really hard to be intellectual and innovating, but it's not likely to impress anyone with a slight bit of horror experience. The comparisons with "Blair Witch Project" and "The Evil Dead" don't make too much sense, except of course for the forestry setting. There are, thankfully, no shaky camera movements but regrettably also no gory make-up effects.

"Villmark" is a pretty good Norwegian horror.It manages to be both interesting and suspenseful,so I enjoyed it.A five people go along on a trip with two leaders into the wilderness.One day,two of the guys are sent out by the group leader Gunnar to go fish in a stream.In a nearby lake they find a drowned body of young woman.Soon they are all stalked by something evil lurking in the dark woods."Villmark" is a creepy and suspenseful horror film.The photography of dark Norwegian woods is astounding and creates a feeling of total dread and hopelessness.The soundtrack is really eerie and the acting is excellent.There is not much gore,but I don't care.Overall,"Villmark" is an enjoyable piece of horror that creeped me out.Highly recommended.

This film could have been something. It has a great location, good actors, nice production-values and so on. What the film desperately needs is a better script. It sort of starts out good, but as the film develops the story looses it's sense and direction(so does the characters...). Especially Bjørn Floberg's character needs some explanation!Having in mind the low budget and short shooting-period, the director Pål Øie shows some skill with the actors. But he fails to deliver the scares. There are plenty of opportunities to do that in the film, so it's a damn shame. Shame on you Mr. Øie, Shame on you...(just kidding) My rating is *1/2 of ****.