Review – Haunted Forest

In the past I’ve had reasonably good luck with horror movies with generic titles. There’s something refreshingly plain and honest about the straightforward promise of movies like Ghost Story and The Wolf Man. No such luck here. This international picture starts out as a half-baked combination of Blair Witch Project and The Ring and goes rapidly downhill from there. There’s some kind of backstory about the restless spirit of a woman named Satinka – sounds a little like a porn name – who guards a forest from interlopers. But mostly it’s just a lot of confused, irrational meandering that relies far too heavily on ineffective booga-booga shots. At least the dog and one of the women make it through to the end. See if desperate