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Woods Witch
USA 2023
produced by
Lauren Francesca, Will Collazo jr, Mem Ferda, Shawn C. Phillips, Abdulla Ahmed Alzaabi (executive), David Axe (executive), Melissa Sellers Drake (executive), Warren Dean Fulton (executive), Ron Gelner (executive), Malachy Fergus Godfrey (executive), Gregory Jermaine Hargrove (executive), Josh Kelley (executive), Tommy Lentsch (executive), Derek K. Long (executive), Joe Patrick Marshall (executive), Ray Nichols (executive), Jodie Orr (executive), Michael Della Pia (executive), Jeff Rennie (executive), Theodore Stump (executive), Bron Theron (executive) for DRAX Films
directed by Shawn C. Phillips, Lauren Francesca
starring Shawn C. Phillips, Lauren Francesca, Sally Kirkland, Tom Sizemore, James Duval, Robert LaSardo, Sadie Katz, Lorelei Linklater, Ken Davitian, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Lisa Wilcox, Eva Hamilton, Brad Grunberg, Nicole Butler, Bryant Smith, Bill Dawes, Crystal J. Huang, G. Larry Butler, Mary Jones, David Perry, Jonathan Grant, Ashleeann Cittell, Sophia Jiang, Carl Solomon, Tom Harold Batchelder, Lilian Morris (= Samantha Hopson), Caylin Brooke Sams, Kellen DeRuy, Marc Pearce, Aric Garcia, Jonathan A. Streetzel, Jake Pearlman, Robert Todd Kennedy, Craig Sapenoff, Derek K. Long, Kenneth Ramone, Alexander Okafor, Charles Solomon jr, Marvin Maddicks jr, Dominic Schmidt, Rouge Rose, Clint Beaver, Chris Robertson, Billy Culbertson, Brandon Krum, Elijah Ignasiak, Auzi Capri, Mike Galindo, Kyle Clarington, Steven Haar, Steven Kiseleski, Rudy Ledbetter, Joseph William Simmons, Paul Bradford, Ellie Holderbaum, Adam Hartwick, Abdulla Ahmed Alzaabi, Bill K. Kenney, Diane Mcclure-Repetto, Bill Dawson, Mikey Manschot, Brannan Durham, Jodie Orr, Ken Potocki, Zach Wolpoff
written by Shawn C. Phillips, special makeup effects by Eric Yoder
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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It chould have been a romantic weekend for Jonah (Shawn C. Phillips)
and Jocelyn (Lauren Francesca) - but then Jonah has the idea to do a
live-streamed 48 hour challenge to boost viewership on their vlog and
decides to go on a camping trip to a supposedly haunted forest in search
for alledged witches, despite the very fact that Jocelyn hates camping.
And not only that, he brings two other vloggers, Dacia (Kelly Lynn Reiter)
and Eugene (David Perry) along, just for audience appeal. The whole
enterprise is doomed from the get-go as they stumble upon many a bizarre
person, some of whom just tag along their track, Jocelyn grows madly
jealous of Dacia, Jonah totally fails at putting up tents, and ultimately
Jonah and Jocelyn has such a massive row that she buggers off with a
hippie girl (Lorelei Linklater) and is ultimately accepted in her hippie
commune by leader Melora (Sadie Katz), leaving the door wide open for a
relationship between Jonah and Dacia to develop. Of course, little does
she, or anyone, know that the tripped out hippies might be the very
witches they were looking for ... Many fan favourites in this one, like
Sally Kirkland playing Jocelyn's mother, Tom Sizemore a talkative
jailbird, Lisa Wilcox a less than talkative mayor, James Duval a
disappeared vlogger and Robert LaSardo a man whose girlfriend has
disappeared in the woods in question.
Now I've never made it a secret, I'm not a massive fan of the
found footage genre, and this film sure shows at least some of the genre's
inherent shortcomings, first and foremost its over-reliance on
improvisation. But that said, Woods Witch is also lots of fun,
basically because on one hand it doesn't take itself at all seriously, on
the other because it's actually a pretty clever satire on the vlogging
scene as such. And the film works thanks to a colourful cast of characters
embodied by an able cast, a well built-up plot, and a very relaxed, fun
approach to the horror genre, all making this a pretty entertaining ride.
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