Dec 04 2008
THE WOODS
What I won’t do for Bruce Campbell…
THE PLOT
Heather is a troublemaker and her parents just can’t handle it anymore so they send her off to a school for troubled girls. Ms. Traverse makes a point of telling the girl that her parents can’t afford the tuition, but she’ll find a spot for her. Then she has to face the teasing and cruelty of the popular girls, which sends her right into the arms of the outcasts. She starts having nightmares and realizes that there’s a coven of witches at the school. When her new friends start disappearing, she realizes that she might be the next.
FUN TRIVIA
The film was released in 2006, but was actually finished in 2003/2004 and sat until the studio decided to release it.
THOUGHTS/OPINIONS
Witches and movies about teen witches are nothing new. The Craft seems to have a handle on what works and what doesn’t work so maybe the people involved with this movie should have checked out that one first. There’s some great actors in this movie like Bruce Campbell playing Heather’s father and Patricia Clarkson as the dean of the school. When you’re watching it though you can’t help but wonder how they ended up in this movie.
The film moved far too slowly for my liking, taking its good old sweet time to build up to something and once it did I ended up feeling really disappointed. By the time the ending finally came, I was just happy that I didn’t have to sit through it any longer.
