GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

TdSmth5 Stylish, confusing, full frontal nudity- it's got to be French. A group of teenage performers is hired to perform for a rich mysterious recluse and his son living in a castle in the middle of the woods. Things get stranger and stranger and eventually people start dying in rather violent and original ways. All of the house inhabitants are creepy characters. What is really unique about this movie and makes it worthwhile is how stylish it is. The movie looks great and there are some original shots and camera angles. While there are movies made entirely as an exercise in style, this one is not only stylish but has a story. This is not one of those gross out horror movies with people covered in dry blood and dirt. The nudity was also surprising and nice. While the story is unclear it's not one of those convoluted stories that forces you to give up looking for meaning, here you do want to find out what's going on. Highly recommended for those who are looking for a stylish and different kind of horror movie.

Verfalk2003 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!

Claudio Carvalho 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")

BillyBC (*1/2 out of *****) This goes to show that even the French put out some serious garbage in the world of film from time to time. This one, for example, is horrid. The interesting (albeit derivative) premise, the spooky setting, and the cinematography are all quite good, but, unfortunately, the whole thing falls apart real fast under its own incomprehensible pretensions.A group of attractive, young actors travel to an old mansion way out in the country to perform for an eccentric millionaire and his weird, mute son. The woods surrounding the mansion just happen to be the hunting ground for a serial rapist/killer who targets young girls. But, forget all about that, because, as soon as the good-looking group gets to the old guy's house, odd characters start popping up and bizarre things start happening -- you know, the usual David Lynch/Dario Argento kind of stuff -- except Delphlanque doesn't have an ounce of the artistic mastery or the subtlety to pull any of it off. Character motivations, most of the plotting, the dialogue (some of which, granted, could be the fault of American dubbing) -- is some of the worst I've ever encountered in a movie like this. In one scene, for example, everyone is sound asleep except for the main female star (Clotilde Courau), who is wandering through the mansion by herself. So, she enters one room and suddenly finds all of her friends dancing real slow and suggestively with each other, including her girlfriend. The scene ends and everyone acts regularly, as if nothing happened -- suddenly, they're all just wide awake and dancing to loud music! Okay, whatever, sure! And then, in the next scene -- after being warned by a (typically weird) police detective (who just happens to walk into the room) that a killer is on the loose -- they're all suddenly outside and walking around through the woods after midnight!The story tries to follow the trace of a murder mystery, but it takes way too many irritating turns into contrived Lynchian territory (in an early scene, the young boy stabs his own hand with a fork at the dinner table, and, after the father explains that he always does that, the guests are like, `Hm, well, how 'bout that -- so, when do you think we're gonna get paid?' and stuff like that.)There are some gory murders and a couple steamy sex scenes, but there are also loooong scenes of characters walking up and down stairs and through dark rooms. And, I swear to God, everyone pauses for about 30 seconds before responding to each other in this maddening mess -- I guess that helps stretch what could have been a 45-minute movie into an hour and a half. Do not be fooled by anyone who tries telling you that this movie is as good as (or, God forbid, better than) a typical Argento flick, because it is not. In spite of its professional camera work and some hints of creativity here and there in the direction, this turkey is no better than any early-'80s, American slasher flick.Lowlight: In a painfully forced attempt to misdirect our suspicions as to who the killer is, one of the actors tries to shoot Courau with a nail gun, but she somehow easily blocks it with a pipe or something, and, in the very next scene, the two of them are outside together, trying to start the car as if nothing happened. There are so many idiotic scenes like this that it just made me sick. I admit it -- I took the damn cassette out of the VCR! I didn't care how it ended! I couldn't take it anymore!