2000, Movies

Deep in the Woods (2000, Lionel Delplanque)

In the CD player: Obscured by Clouds the soundtrack by Pink Floyd

It’s too bad this movie’s so disappointing overall. The actual title is something like “Promenons-Nous dans les Bois” or something. Anyway, there are some fantastic shots and moments in this movie. You see them and you just think “Brilliant! Another Masterpiece!” like that art that in the Simpson’s episode where Marge paints Burns. Others you chuckle at the greatness. I think I said “I love it” like 8 times. The problem is, the movie’s horrible. The plot is more ridiculous than most teen slashers. The script (or at least how it appears in the subtitles) pretty routine. There are moments when you think the movies gonna become awesome and then it doesn’t. If anything it gets worse as it goes on (there is at least a somewhat ok setup). But in amongst the crap are these creative moments. And I just had to mention this movie because of them. Hopefully somebody’s gonna watch this film and get inspired to make a good horror movie with such neat shots. Anyway, sometimes the French (and other Europeans) take American genres (or in this case, sub-genres) and make awesome movies. Sometimes they make ones that are even worse than the American films. The latter happened here.
3/10

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