The Woods
It is kind of interesting that I rented this and The Lady in the Water at the same time since The Village was originally named The Woods and had to change because of this film.
This film is your basic child sent off to a creepy boarding school where things are going bad. There isn't really a lot more to it than that. The main character is a bad girl who is sent to this school after burning down her parent's house. She makes friends with one girl but is harassed by another who calls her "fire crotch" because of her red hair. I can't remember the main character's name so I'll call her Firecrotch.
Firecrotch has some bad dreams and hears things. Then some girls disappear. Then she fights the bad people. The end.
Apparently this film sat on the shelf for a few years before being released and while there isn't anything wrong with it I can see why they weren't in a hurry to release it because there isn't much right with it either. Afterwords I found myself asking why characters did certain things only to remember that the film did explain those things. It just didn't leave much of an impact and kind of was uninteresting.
There are a couple places where we question someone's motives and those are pretty interesting but those moments are few and far between.
one thumb down
Don't go in the woods
and don't watch The Woods either
leave it on the shelf
