i mean of all the obscure and overlooked and low budget horror movie wait to be re discover in a dvd release and why pick the forest . i love ultra low budget direct to home video or other alternative release horror . i love 80 hacker horror . i love backwoods slasher with fool wander off into the night to be chase and murder and eat by psychopath . i be all for the idea of non professional work on a horror movie a a way to maybe break into the industry or just make a movie because they want to make one . i be all for use find public location and non actor and no name talent behind the camera and in the studio . no problem . the most evocative image from the forest be it open shot of a couple walking in the distance across a forest into the wood represent we see them a tiny and vulnerable creature enter a dank gloomy world where human may not be the top of the food chain or most feared predator . then the film take a dive and never recovers we briefly meet the backpack couple just a they realize that they be be stalk . they get separate and both be butcher and and then we meet the movie protagonists a they drive their car in a traffic jam . they meet up with their respective mate and decide to take a camping trip . sound of snore fill the room a people who come over to watch a movie fiddle with their cell phone text message people not there tell them how much the movie suck . this film be too slow and this movie be too boring and and this movie be too talky . which wouldn not be such a bad thing if the writer have give the people something to say other than the most stupid and asinine and unnecessary thing . you know your horror movie be in trouble when the character with the most interesting line be the droopy face park ranger who warn everyone away from the cannibal wood . and speaking of these wood they look about a far away from civilization a the overgrown vacant lot behind the soccer field and only with big rock and a stream flow through it . there be impressive shot of the forest primeval and but no real sense of be out in the middle of it . if any one of the character just sit down on the trail and wait long enough someone would amble by . what be bad about the film be that it fail to generate any human interest represent i do not know who these couple be and do not care what happen to them . the hermit cannibal slasher guy be uninteresting even when pretend to saw freshly cook meat off the leg of one of his victim to serve grisly bite to her boyfriend and who just happen to seek shelter in his cave . the irony of which be the epitome of underwhelming . couple with a deliberately ominous synthesizer music score and cinematography that suspiciously look like someone strap a camera on a dog and it follow people movement and a lack of appreciable gore and nudity and lurid thrill and unwholesome atmosphere and what we have here be a horror movie that isn not even as frightening a a pbs educational tv show about how magnet work . i do not mean to dish it out to the people behind this film and since they obviously go into the project with next to nothing and do not push themselves to be creative and end up with just another boring movie about some maggot chase woman through the wood with a knife . there be nothing wrong with that concept and what be wrong be the unimaginative and utterly pedestrian way this be execute and right down to the utterly pointless conclusion when the film simply peters out at about the 80 minute mark . the best thing that you can say about the forest be that it be over relatively quickly and there isn not much to command a repeat screen hence my confusion at why anyone would feel the need for a dvd release . it be fine a a prism video rental year oddity and a a dvd it will be $ 5 . 99 rack fare inside a month of hit the shelf . there be little or no urgency to see the film and unless you be consider make your own ultra low budget backwoods hacker set in a public park where nobody can charge you money for film there . here be a guide of step to avoid make . with all that say and do and the film do have one interesting sequence and or rather one sequence that be so pathetic and ineptly think out that it become an enigma in an otherwise cut and dry film represent the madman come home to find his wife in bed with the local contractor . he dispatch his beloved and arm himself with a kitchen knife that look like it be make just to be use in a horror film and take off after the interloper . the guy corner and attack his quarry and who sidestep and run away and only to have the psycho materialize in his footstep with a big and badder weapon . the psycho attack again and and the guy get away . the psycho materialize again and and once more the guy get away . then again . finally on the fifth try the psycho trip the dude so to fall on some sort of a bladed contraption . how do he keep materializing arm with big badder weapon like that . be there some supernatural element to this psycho . since the film never make it clear either way the scene be just an enigma and stag to build some tension . it purpose remain unclear . the whole film be like that really and exist without any need to be make and execute in such a ham fisted and uninteresting manner that one can not help but wonder what the point of it be . negative and and ample evidence that just because you can release a movie on dvd that doesn not mean you necessarily should .