(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/woodswitch-cover.jpg" width="250" height="333"></td> </tr> </table> <p>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 ...<p>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. <p> <p>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, <b>Woods Witch</b> 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. </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2023"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>