Kids, don’t go into the woods!
Don’t go into the woods, don’t go into the woods, don’t go into the woods – how many freakin’ times do we have to tell you kids this? German Fairy Tales were written with very graphic, horrible endings to keep kids from going into the woods. But some kids have nowhere else to go.
It looks like something terrible is going down at this “Caring Home For Young Girls” that drives these two girls deep into the unforgiving, hostile hills. Thing is, there is a reason we tell you to stay the hell out of the woods, because creepy perverted murderers live there. Duh!
This American indie film is loosely based on Aokigahara, the so-called Japanese Suicide Forest that seems to compel people to end it all. Hollywood did a film called The Forest a few years back starring Natalie Dormer and Taylor Kinney that was fairly underwhelming. I mean, I watched it, but I didn’t have any desire to write up a review or anything.
So, I don’t know much about that suicide forest in Japan, but I know it somehow led to Logan Paul getting banned or something on YouTube. But he is now inexplicably with Chloe Bennet, so maybe he made a deal with one of the spirits there? Now that is a film I would watch, where he makes the deal and it goes horribly wrong in the end . . . as most deals with evil entities tend to do. Easy, demon lovers, I said most!
I have always toyed around with a screenplay where a damsel in distress flees one danger only to be hurled into a much more deadly scenario. Seems this plays on that and is set in the American version of the suicide forest.
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Story:
The Mourning Hills
The sisters search for a better life, for themselves. Together, they run away, traveling through the dangerous and secluded mountains. Here, they must contend with: their grief, nature, strangers and their own naiveté about the world as they struggle to survive.
Writer/Director: Todd Campbell
Cast: Chelsea Bryan, Carol Jean Wells, Joe Fredo, Eric Gebhardt
The Mourning Hills will be available on digital platforms worldwide, this week. On Friday, August 17th, it will show in multiple countries on: Amazon Prime and iTunes.
Additionally and in North America, the film will show on: VUDU and Tubi TV.
