after heather fasulo set fire to the front yard and her parent decide that board school be the best thing for her . a the story unfolds and we learn that heather have an extrasensory ability not only can she hear the tree in the forest speak and which be cleverly present a symptomatic of paranoid psychosis and but she can balance a pencil and small rock in gravity defy position by simply concentrate on the them . enmesh with feeling of alienation and hormonal upheaval and her power be a source of enormous anxiety until sympathetic school mistress m traverse explain the nature of her special power . however traverse be not what she seem and have a sinister plan that involve the evil tree dwell sprite and the entire student population . the wood be loosely base on the tree dwell female dryad of greek mythology . it also highly influence by suspiria and serrador la residencia and the evil dead . in the wood lucky mckee of may fame have fun with some dynamic cgi effect for the tree limb and root and branch that keep sleep teen in stasis until the late teen offering have be snatch from her bed and but the effect seem out of place in a film that keep fancy visuals to a minimum . still this surprisingly subtle horror be worth a look . positive .