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Lurking Woods

Australia 2015
produced by
Rod Manikam, Jag Pannu (executive), Ong Teng Boon (executive), Rowan Scott (executive) for Rodman Pictures
directed by Rizal Halim
starring Hope Devaney, Troy Coward, Chloe Brown, Kyle James Sargon, Daniel Berenger, Dominique Shenton, Michael Rainone, Darryl Westrup, Vivienne Marshall, Bryan Chance, Rod Manikam, Cassee Lazic, Jasmine Nibali, Dan Minchilli, Martin Murphy, Wayne Wilton
written by Desmond Hew, music by William Marty

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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At a reunion of sorts, six friends from back in high school - Andrea (Hope Devaney), Mike (Troy Coward), Alice (Chloe Brown), Tim (Kyle James Sargon), Scott (Daniel Berenger) and Arleen (Dominique Shenton) - go on a hiking trip through the woods that's organized like a competitive scavenger hunt. But it soon becomes clear that this isn't your ordinary scavenger hunt when the clues become more and more macabre to gruesome. And then Alice turns up dead, and from there our heroes know something's up. And soon enough they have to realize that whoever has killed Alice is also after them, especially when they see a video of one of their friends, Eddie (Michael Rainone), who was also supposed to come, but who sends them his farewell message, dying from multiple stab wounds. And soon enough, our heroes find themselves on the run from a masked killer, and the fact that they can't figure out among themselves how to best save themselves while the killer seems to know all their steps in advance doesn't make things much easier ...

 

Now on a surface level, this film has all the tried-and-true elements for a standard slasher, including a fairly good-looking main cast of youngsters, a landscape with many unprotected spots to get killet at, the tendency of the characters to split up, and of course the almost mandatory dark secret that lies at the bottom of the story. What makes this more than a formula slasher though is that it pushes its mystery elements, and the scavenger hunt premise sure is the perfect vehicle for this. And due to the heightened mystery element, the film stays fresh and manages to surprise throughout and comes across as a really nice genre ride.

 

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