Deep in the Woods (2000)

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Blistering performances.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

* contains spoilers (if you even care)* Now, I might have went into this film with the wrong attitude. I was expecting a full-on gory slasher. However, this is not what I got. OK, so the film begins with a mother reading her child a story. Then the mom gets killed by somebody strangling her with a rope. Then, we meet the group of teenagers, driving along in the woods to go perform a play. They get to the house and NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING exciting happens for about 20-25 minutes! So, then they go into the woods (except for Sophie, who stays behind). By this time I REALLY wanted to see someone chopped up with an axe or stabbed or something. But no. Instead, when one of the girls comes back, she takes a shower and then gets killed by the killer ramming her face into the mirror and then holding her head underwater. That's probably the most exciting kill in the whole movie, and it didn't excite me at all. Well, then the whole group comes back and so on and so forth. I'll let you see the rest. Sure, the twist ending was slightly surprising, but by then, I didn't really care. One more thing about one of the characters though: Sophie's laugh is extremely annoying. Just shut up! But about the movie: Please do not see this if you are a fan of blood and guts stuff. This has very little. It was extremely disappointing to me and I'm sure it will be to you. The acting and story were both pathetic and it had absolutely nothing to excite.

I have seen Deep in the Woods today and I'm deeply disturbed by this ''movie.'' First of all, I find it hard to believe that the writing staff didn't write the script after a drink or two. First of all, the actors, discover that there is a rapist in the woods, and after that revelation they go for a stroll in the woods?! One of them, Spohie, I think, stays in the house and plays the guitar like she's in her house and is waiting dinner?! And the policeman just gets in the house like the house is his or like he has the keys of the house?! now I know, how can I torment my friends. I'll just let them see Deep in the Woods. For the love of God, don't see this film!

A group of artists, composed of the young actors Wilfried (Vincent Lecoer) and Matthieu (Clément Sibony) and the actresses Sophie (Clotilde Courau), Mathilde (Maud Buquet) and the dumb Jeanne (Alexia Stresi), is hired by a millionaire, Axel de Fersen (François Bérleand), to present a performance of Little Red Riding Hood in his isolated castle to celebrate the birthday of his grandson. Meanwhile, the police advises that a serial killer is raping and killing young women in the woods around that area. During the night, the group feels trapped and threatened in the castle, guessing who is and where might be the killer. "Deep in the Woods" is a very weird French B-Movie. The characters are badly constructed, the troupe of actors and actresses are very stupid, the locals are very bizarre, the story has many clichés and flaws, the screenplay is a complete mess and the acting of a great part of the cast is ridiculous. The photography is good, and probably this is the best this movie can offer. For Brazilians, I would like to present one additional remark: last year, the distributor Play Arte released the DVD "Wrong Turn" with the title "Pânico na Floresta" (which means "Panic in the Forest"). Now, the distributor "Europa Filmes" has just released "Deep in the Woods" with the same title in Portuguese ("Pânico na Floresta"). Therefore, the reader can imagine the confusion for a common Brazilian users, when he or she goes to a rental or to a store and gets the wrong DVD. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Pânico na Floresta" ("Panic in the Forest")

This "film" should be presented at all levels of film courses especially the scripting ones because it has so many flaws in plot and lacks so many parts of a feature film that one can hardly imagine better tool for explaining what should the story for the movie be like.I don't understand that high ranking it got and some comments about other levels of depths of the story made me laughing loud.After first 20 minutes I was angry at myself because I picked the film for my friends but then I was enjoying every illogical turn of the plot, dialogue and acting of characters under given circumstances just for fun.I have no doubt that had Monty Python been still in action they wouldn't let this one pass unnoticed-one of the most absurd charcters was the policeman/detective -when he first appeared on screen -just what was this? At the end one of my friends added "and now there will be a shot on a raven and finish" and after it happened just that we laughed through the credits maybe trying to forget how dull and boring this french "masterpiece" was.