Into the Forest (2015) User Reviews (258)

Performances: Great, Story: Okay, Climax: WTF? [+46%]

[arungeorge13 · 5/10 · 31 July 2017]

While the title and synopsis suggest a survival drama, this movie in fact gives you very little detail on the actual measures taken to 'survive' in a situation of prolonged power outage. Two sisters, Nell and Eva, are left orphaned after their dad succumbs to the injuries he received from a chainsaw accident, leaving them helpless at their house with no electricity.

This is a story that tries to highlight the bond between the two sisters played by Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood who deliver terrific and above-average performances respectively. As such, the film packs an emotional punch but fails terribly as a survival thriller. For instance, one wonders how they look as gleeful and healthy as they are, even after a year of no-power (the reason for which isn't explained clearly either). How were they able to procure clean water? Surely, they must have decided on some constraints in the quantity of food they eat. But this doesn't seem to take any toll on their bodies (not even a minor blemish); Page's cheeks look round and rosy as ever.

They must have had to hunt for food on more instances than what's shown in the film. They should have had to fend off more intruders than just the one guy who ends up raping the (supposedly) older sister. There are a plethora of possibilities that could have taken place in the lives of the two sisters. But alas, the director doesn't seem interested in expounding any of it.

Logical reasoning does take a backseat too often, in between the highly emotional moments. Like Eva almost springing into a comfortable upright position just after she has gone through a painful delivery. Like Eva deciding to go ahead with childbearing after being raped. Like the posh house that starts falling apart in like a year and half of not-so- great maintenance (so much for modern architecture!). Like using their last available bit of fuel to burn their house down during heavy downpour and deciding to take shelter in a tree stump instead (with an infant, mind you!) while they could have at least used the gasoline to warm themselves later on.

Nevertheless, the movie does score high on performances and this is probably why one wouldn't want to write off the film altogether. I just wish the movie probed more into the actualities of survival than staging emotional scenes.

Verdict: Writing department needed to do a lot better!

They would die fairly soon in the real world.

[gulag · 6/10 · 28 December 2016]

Without getting into all of the other hot topics that this film engenders, as an Alaskan I can say that from a purely survival aspect they wouldn't make it a winter. And in fact if this was supposed to be anywhere in Canada where was winter? It always seemed green. There are few berries in winter. Unless they lived in a fairly substantial house they would freeze to death. And there is very little food apart from hunting in the winter. And they certainly did not learn enough to survive simply from books. They would run out of ammo soon. They showed no skill at creating tools or salvaging them. And certainly none at basic house repair. In fact I would say they were just about the unhandiest women I've seen in the woods. Essentially this was just an emotionally acted fantasy without much basis in the real world. Kind of a shame. I had hoped for more.

Probably the most forced plot ever!

[anthony-burton4 · 5/10 · 20 December 2018]

This is one of the more bizarre movies I've seen - mostly because I don't think it's intended to be, but the list of ridiculous situations/events just goes on and on.

So the power goes out - they drive into town and the store is already completely emptied!! What? I mean they never explain what causes the blackout so why did the locals IMMEDIATELY go into long term survival mode?

Their dad hurts himself with a chainsaw - it's an ugly wound, but not immediately life threatening, but he dies in seconds! OK

So - the writers have now arrived at the story they want to tell - they've got rid of the father, leaving the girls on their own, to fend for themselves in the middle of nowhere (well not quite, because there's a few other properties on the same "street"), with little fuel, but seemingly an almost endless supply of food.

An eternity passes before they attempt to do any serious foraging, and then presumably on her first attempt otherwise she'd have known the rifle recoil would push her out the tree, she brings down a pig. FIRST ATTEMPT! Other than this and some berry and herb collecting, they seem to survive for over a year on the food in the house.

The house looks amazing, but the roof starts leaking (they make no attempt to fix the leak), and then part of the roof caves in - hmm. They then decide that the house is unsalvageable and USING THEIR PRECIOUS FUEL, burn it down??!!? And go off to live in the woods having shown no sign of any ability to do anything practical like REPAIR THE FRIGGIN ROOF. How exactly do they expect to survive now? We'll never know because that's where the movie ends.

There are a couple of scenes that are quite moving, but set against such an absurd plot, I just wish I'd not wasted my time watching it.

A somewhat implausible End of the World movie that struggles with pace

[targe1314 · 6/10 · 3 February 2017]

Another in a seemingly endless string of movies about going into the woods sees a small family unit of dad and two older daughters surviving after a mysterious power outage hits the country.

The movie is set in the near future, as we see from somewhat more sophisticated computer interfaces in the home. Strangely, this is where the technology ends, as our trio is left woefully unprepared for when the disaster strikes. They are living at a beautiful forest home, yet have no gas for the jenny and the solar panels do not work.... uh yeah.....

The strange disruption of the radio signals is also very unexplained.

So with the cause, ramifications, extent, etc of this catastrophe left blank and with that, a lot of suspicion on just how much the director thought this through when there are plenty of real world disasters available (solar flare? magnetic pole flip? Gamma ray burst?) we are left with 'Oh... OK... just a PLOT DEVICE...' to move on with. Which means, the story and the acting and the plot better be freaking GOOD....

Instead, we see the small family unit go through classic denial stage, then depression, then motivation stages. There are only two major plot crisis events in the movie, and at times we are left with wondering the ultimate purpose... as the movie starts to seem like a survival instructional video, then slides into a 'sisters 4eva!' girl power movie.

Another very strange point... their gorgeous forest bungalow home begins to self destruct for some reason after only 6 months... and is unlivable after 1 1/2 years.... not saying much for modern construction! No explanation for this very weird self destructing house (and those reading who are lazy on cleaning gutters, please rest easy - it takes YEARS of not cleaning them before the roof starts caving in...)

I didn't score lower, because, despite the many flaws, the actors themselves are top notch and bring their A game, and the beautiful setting is magic to get absorbed in, you can almost smell the pine.

End of the world film is ordinary and scary as it likely really would be.

[a_chinn · 7/10 · 27 April 2020]

This realistic end-of-the-world story unfolds as it likely really would. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood play sisters living with their widowed father in the forest when an unexplained power outage occurs that leads to a breakdown in civil order. There are rumors as to what happened or how widespread it is, but it's never fully explained and that is not the focus of the film. The story instead focuses on Page and Woods' characters and how they face the many challenges of living in this new world, which includes grocery store clerks now carrying shotguns, rationing gasoline, and an increasing wariness of people who used to be friends and neighbors (or even relatives). I don't want to spoil any plot points, but what unfolds is what would likely really happen. You'd have to contend with a world without lights, internet, or music. You'd no longer know what's happening outside your village. You'd have to get used to the idea that the world is forever changed and is not going back to how things were before. In many ways, this film felt like the 1983 film "The Testament," which depicted a typical family after a nuclear warhead fell on the United States. Completely unsensational but the ordinariness of the characters and situations make the film far more identifiable of an experience when compared to "Mad Max" or "A Boy and His Dog," and consequently more impactful. However, on the downside, the ordinariness of the film also leads to some slow pacing and not always compelling of situations. Still, within the context of this film, it does work and is what makes this end-of-the-world story unique and all the more engaging. FUN FACT! The pig butchering scene was real. Ellen Page learned the process specifically to include in this film.

A good movie ruined by a horrible ending

[Henry-klein · 4/10 · 3 June 2019]

If you are a fan of the apocalyptic survival genre you will enjoy the movie until the last 5 minutes. The ending is poorly conceived, totally unrealistic and flat out stupid.

Good drama with solid performances

[Seth_Rogue_One · 7/10 · 1 October 2016]

Listed as a drama and a sci-fi here but there are not very much sci-fi about it except for it taking place a couple years maybe into the future, but yeah no time traveling, aliens or robots or any of the sort so don't go into it expecting anything of that.

It is a rather down to earth human drama with some scenes of suspense but mostly a drama about human endurance in hard times.

Reading through some of the negative comments on the message-board I get the impression that people thought that this would be some sort of lesbian erotic drama (maybe because the only trivia currently listed is that Ellen Page does her first nude scene in it) but that is not the case, and the scene is not very explicit either.

And some complain about animal cruelty, which is not even shown on screen, there is a quick scene where a animal gets visibly butchered but it's ridiculous to call it animal cruelty as the animal most likely suffered more humane treatment than the meat you buy in store and it was of course already dead.

So those things are something I think are partly the reasons why there are quite a few negative reviews about it.

Not saying that the movie is flawless but I think it was a well spent 95 minutes and one I will watch again sometime most likely.

How to not survive when the power goes out.

[drossvirex-89438 · 1/10 · 15 January 2017]

At first I thought it was going to be little interesting to see how they all survive, but as the movie goes on you find out the characters are the kind that would not survive any kind of apocalypse in the long term. If that's the point of this movie, then they nailed it. The movie might seem like it has a good ending, but in reality they wouldn't last a week with an infant without a decent shelter.

Deciding to burn the house down because of 'black mold' and then living in a tree stump while it's beating down rain (and winter is coming soon) is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. They could have fixed the roof eventually, or at least weatherproofed it. Or they could have just found another house, since they were all abandoned. Instead they decide to live outside with an infant. Just plain stupidity.

Expected more

[Red_Identity · 31 July 2016]

I feel like the premise for this called for a truly visionary, unique tale. It was definitely compelling and mostly well-done, although its effect mostly comes from its acting. The screenplay needed some more work to more readily establish its main goals. Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page are strong in their roles and do more work to fill in the gaps in their characters' writing and development. The music is sometimes a little over-the-top, and the film tries too hard to move you at certain times (and instead of being effective comes across kind of awkwardly). Still, this is a mostly entertaining, mostly well told, even if it could have been truly great, film.

Eerie and moving

[dirios · 7/10 · 27 November 2016]

This movie has some really convincing performances. Ellen Page is great, the depth of her emotions are intense and believable. Evan Rachel Wood is also really good, she does her sensitive character a lot of justice and portrays a vividly brutal scene with real honesty. This movie is unsettling because it is all too possible. What happens when we are suddenly left without power is shocking - we are plunged into a lawless past, with no protection. This movie really conveys that well, and at the same time explores the theme of what it means to be a family. I was moved to tears several times. The forest setting is lush and beautiful. The direction was good - the pace was tense and believable, the only slow part I didn't care for were some of the love scenes in the beginning, and the dance scenes were pretty dispensable, but all in all I really liked it!

WTF, where their brains at? :D

[gogeccc · 5/10 · 9 June 2017]

Seriously, in the ending I was like WTF, DUDE!? After delivering the baby, walking to the house in the rain, she decides to burn it down? I thought she was displaying a case of postpartum psychosis and wondering what is her sister gonna do about that... And what does she do? She agrees that the best option, with her sister's baby just having been born, is to burn the house and go live inside a tree bark while it's raining and doesn't look like it's gonna stop? WTF!?

The movie was OK, performances OK, premise OK. What happens to our civilization if (when) we lose power and communications? How do we survive, having lost all our survival skills (or never even being learnt)? The film deals with issues such as human nature, people robbing and raping each other in case of a catastrophe, instead of helping out and joining forces.

I feel like the most sensitive topics, like how do you preserve food and how do you grow food and how do you prepare food and how do you survive winters when there's no food around and... basically anything that's about survival has been left out. How do they survive 15 months in the forest? There only so much berries in the forests and they're not even there for the entire year... Though, they did show how they can (cook and sterilize) berries, which is respectable.

All in all, the entire film was overshadowed by the ending. They didn't cover much of survival - OK, I can get over it, films don't have to be about what I expect them to be about - but the ending is a complete and absolute sack of... well you know what.

So much from me.

Beautiful Work by Patricia Rozema

[dwood-42372 · 9/10 · 25 May 2016]

I had the privilege of seeing this at a film festival in Chicago, where the director--Patricia Rozema--gave a Q&A session after the credits rolled. Before walking in, all I knew was that it starred Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood--actresses whom I thought were talented as is-- and that it was a "post-apocalyptic" film.

However, rather than zombies or nuclear fallout wiping out humankind, what I saw was an emotionally powerful story of how two sisters enter a new world while discarding an old one; through this process, I saw some of the most believable character arcs thanks to Page and Wood's incredible performances.

The set-up is deceptively simple: a house in an isolated forest. Rozema used this setting to evoke moods of both tension, beauty, and fear. The scenes were beautifully shot and accompanied by an equally beautiful score by Max Richter. I found the sisters' interaction with the house and surrounding forest to be incredibly engaging throughout.

There are no cataclysmic doomsday scenes here; no cracks in the earth swallowing up humanity. If you want to see a film like that, there are plenty to choose from. But if you want to instead see a film that makes you feel raw emotions and reflect as you watch the sisters' transformation in a time of adversity, then I can't recommend this film enough.

A quiet, powerful little movie

[Havelock01 · 7/10 · 2 December 2016]

The only thing I knew about this film apart from a brief synopsis, was that it was low budget.

When I started watching this quiet, powerful little film, I realised it isn't about what happens as such, but rather how the two main characters evolve to cope. This whole film is a careful, unshowy study of character development. If you like that sort of thing, I highly recommend you give it a try.

Unfortunately I think a lot of the negative reviews here are born from misconceptions of what this film was going to be - probably due to misrepresentation by cable and streaming services. It's not a post-apocalypse film, not a thriller or even about survivalism as such; it a psychological drama about two young people learning to cope on their own. The reviewers that focus on what the characters did wrong or the 'stupid' choices they made, are missing the point. People also forget that in such an alien situation - full of fear and isolation and uncertainty, people don't always make rational, sensible decisions. It doesn't make a character's story 'stupid' or 'unrealistic' if they take questionable, emotional actions. I wonder how well many of these reviewers would do if they were in these two characters' shoes.

This film is not without faults. By far the strongest aspect is the quality of the acting from the leads, on whose ability to make believable and likable characters, this whole film rests. I can understand why many people don't like this film, it's certainly not for everyone, but it is one that has made a real and heartfelt impact on me, and I think it will stay with me a long time.

not guided by good sense. lazy and offends anyone with a brain.

[attennessee · 3/10 · 12 November 2018]

Let's just say there was a lot of license and a lot of liberties taken to make this story last as long as it did and the viewer is asked to blindly accept a lot of things that just don't make sense or add up (and i'm not even a survivalist! lol).

like who in their right mind would ever try to fell a tree of that size alone, as in without a spotter??? you start with large branches only or already dead-and-fallen trees, not the trunk of a standing live one!! (one that's not even good for burning cause it hasn't seasoned yet!) and why if they needed to cut that tree do they -- months later -- still have enough wood to keep chopping it for fire (remember the chainsaw's broken) PLUS nearly a truckload of large, evenly cut wood to board-up the entire house (just me??) (not even to address the gross of like 5,000 nails she'd need and used!).

when you're trying to survive in a hostile unpredictable world you would always have your gun by your side. always. not in the house somewhere where you have to run and get it! there's no way they had enough food to even get them to the point where they eventually had to forage. and how did that guy happen to find the jeep keys so easily? again wouldn't you secure all the keys to your only vehicle, even if you have to wear them around your frickn neck?? and you'd definitely hide the gas come on people! but no he easily takes off with both! gaaahhh!!

critical incidentals just so casually waved away by...no explanation. page did a great job acting but all-in-all the movie was convenient, nonsensical and ultimately offensive to thinking people. should've used a coherence consultant. or if you want your viewers to forgive such inconsistencies make a better ending (wow) or offer some great revelation. do we have to do everything??? overall just lazy, frustrating, illogical.

Interesting Concept, Terrible Execution. Someone lost their way.

[ChetXBuck · 14 October 2016]

We wanted to like this film. But we could not. It failed us. The premise is interesting and the acting starts off pretty solid and believable. The characters talk and act in ways that you can believe at the outset and you are drawn in by the mysterious direction of the plot. Then, something happens and the characters just keep plugging away as if nothing is wrong. There are so many outrageous inconsistencies and plot holes that you can't keep up. Without giving away the plot, I will just say that they go from one extreme to the other and the characters do not react as any person ever would. The story continues with more absurdity and tragedy. The characters continue to do mindless and illogical things. At this point, we lose interest in the story and follow along with half interest just to see where it ends. It can be said that there is some very good acting in this film. But the writing and direction drag this into two big thumbs down. Bizarre does not mean good. Sorry.

Interesting, but not gripping

[Groverdox · 6/10 · 17 August 2016]

"Into the Forest" is a movie I wanted to like more. It's well made, and well acted, but it just doesn't hold your attention. Perhaps the problem is that the characters never really register. It's about the relationship between two sisters, but the relationship doesn't feel like a real bond.

The movie does a better job of showing a world without power. It reminded me of "Threads", that ravishing pic about the world post-nuclear holocaust, but it keeps directing our attention away from this scenario and toward the two women, who don't provide a strong enough centre.

You have to look around the edges of the movie to find the interesting bits.

It was a great post apocalyptic movie.

[subxerogravity · 6/10 · 18 February 2017]

You do have to get use to the tone of the situation. Some time in the nearest Future, maybe even tomorrow the electricity stops working in North America. No cell phones, no TV, and your car battery goes dead. The situation is made far worse with the family in this picture as they live out in the woods a few miles away from the nearest town.

I've seen a lot of post apocalyptic movies and this is my favorite one yet. It's falls into the category of Hard Science as the situation is near believable. Though you can't help watching it and waiting for the other ball to drop, and it never happens. No zombies, No killer robots from the future, no alien invasion.

And without all this Into the Forest was still able to produce a dramatically intense concept of the human condition when the apocalypse happens. who will raise up, who can't, and who will show their true colors. The specific focus is own two sisters who had to learn to fend for themselves without technology after their father dies in an accident and because of the apocalypse they could not get to a doctor in time.

A well done tale of true dystopia.

they never went into the forest

[phenomynouss · 2/10 · 31 December 2017]

After "It Comes At Night" had absolutely nothing come at night, i'm getting sick of these moody post-apocalyptic dramas with titles that are completely wrong or misleading as to the actual content of the movie.

the movie at the start is about a single father with two young adult daughters, Nell and Eva, living in a house out in the woods on the west coast. Then there's a catastrophic power outage that ends up being far worse than a random outage.

While the concept is broad enough not to be based on anything already written, it reminded me very strongly of the novel by William Forstchen "One Second After", about a father and his two young girls living in a small town in the Carolinas when a massive EMP event hits and they have to go months without power.

The novel, which supposedly Newt Gingritch said inspired him to talk about the threat of EMP attacks on the US power grid, was incredibly written and dealt with a lot of the dangerous issues to be dealt with without any sort of electricity, including one of his daughters being diabetic and them having to constantly scour and barter for insulin and ice, while maintaining some manner of stability in the community.

This movie does absolutely none of that. The father dies due to an inexplicable accident in which he is apparently wasting gasoline using a chainsaw to cut down a tree for firewood, only to have it come apart and saw his leg and he bleeds out. This leaves the two daughters to survive for many months in their house hidden away in the woods without power.

There's never any real danger. They have a seemingly endless supply of clean water, enough not just to drink but to bathe and shave with regularity, and an even more endless supply of rice and beans that not only lasts them many many months, but lasts them throughout having Nell's boyfriend over for several days as well.

They somehow continue to maintain the house for over a year, doing nothing but chopping firewood and going on with Nell studying and Eva practicing dancing. The only threat from people in town is when a random shopkeep they'd met earlier shows up to rape Eva and leave.

At the end, suddenly the house is seeing huge pieces collapse due to black mold, and with Eva having a baby, she decides not only can she not live in the moldy house anymore but she wants to use the last of their gasoline to set it on fire and leave.

I don't know how to handle a mold outbreak in a house, but in a post-apocalyptic setting where there's been no electricity in virtually the entire country for over a year, and no communication with the outside world beyond rumor, I think ditching and burning down a huge house that has gone 15 months without being raided or even discovered by potential bandits and looters is suicide.

Another reviewer put it simply and truly; they would die very quickly in the real world. Even if we could believe that they had a perfect house with a huge supply of food and water that lasted them 15 months, they'd end up dead within days after scuttling it and going out on their own without any food or supplies or shelter and a newborn baby.

A good film, but fizzles.

[MK_Ultra_ · 6/10 · 30 July 2016]

Yes, a good film. A different spin the the post apocalyptic film, with sisters and their father spotlighted in a family style of drama when a major, unexplained black out sets it. People panic, gas runs out, stores are empty. You get the picture.

A feeling of dread hits when the father passes during a freak accident, leaving a somewhat unprepared pair of sisters to fend for themselves in what turn out to be a very cruel world. (just in a smaller sample size) The film is beautifully and tastefully handled, even during some some of the tougher scenes (one of a rape of one of the sisters, one a pig killing). I do see one of the leading reviewers focused on that, and condemns the killing, but you can bet this was a pig/boar that was hunted or part of a butchery prop, so settle down with the self righteous rant.

It feels a bit "Into the Wild" with it's instinct to survive and learning how to, meets elements of "The Road", just without the utter despair and bleakness of Hillcoat's underground classic rendition of McCarthy's novel.

The survival aspect of the story was interesting, and the sense of lawlessness was there, instilled with uneasy scenes that gave you the sense without exploiting with violent scenes. The heavy handed relationship aspect of the story and the entitled sister weighed things down a bit for me. She was interested in the metronome and coming back from an injury as a dancer while the grid collapses around them. Got to me, as a character flaw, much the way Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild) got to me. Selfish and entitled. Her sister, portrayed by Ellen Page (and masterfully, though not necessarily a fan of) evens her out with her "hippie-online college-activist" role.

All in all a good film. Flawed but easy to overlook with good script, good cinematography and interesting story.

Seemed to wilt towards the end as it weighed down in the melodramatic choices of having the baby, conceived out of rape, and the burning down of the house they were presumably raised in. 6/10

A metaphor for stupidity...no wait, not a metaphor, just plain stupid.

[pastorcat · 1/10 · 21 August 2016]

There are spoilers here, beware!

End of the world. What do you do. These girls, practice modern dance. Study for final exams. Argue a lot. Eat some beans. And in the film's final scene, burn down their house and relocate to a tree stump...in the rain...with a newborn, and a mission. What that mission might be isn't expressed, but a good guess is, it begins by building a house.

{facepalm}

Unfortunately, these buffoons use their last remaining gasoline to set fire to all their food, tools, and building materials. Metaphor for young women birthing a new world? No! Cartoon level stupidity overwrought by wholly unnecessary mellow drama that isn't only boring, it's unbelievable.

Nature, at its best and worst

[ReganRebecca · 7/10 · 1 January 2017]

I was actually not looking forward to this movie at all because I tried to read the book beforehand and couldn't finish it. Not to mention I find director Patricia Rozema a hit or miss director and Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are far from my favourite actresses. But maybe it's because I went into this with such low expectations that I ended up being completely blown away.

Page and Wood play two teenage sisters (despite looking nothing like teenagers or each other), who live in a remote woodland area (which is clearly in B.C. but pretending to be somewhere in the U.S.) with their handy father. They live in a slightly futuristic time where computers are slightly advanced. One day the power goes out which poses a minor inconvenience for them. But then the outage continues and things start to go awry. People get desperate. And this small family has to struggle to come together to survive.

The story honestly isn't particularly unique but Rozema, taking her cues from the novel of the same name, puts a surprising twist on certain actions. The characters find hope in dire situations and in each other. And Rozema truly has a breath taking eye for capturing images. There are so many moments that took my breath away because of how beautifully she framed them. Cinematographer Daniel Grant also deserves a shout out for his truly beautiful work.

By no means a perfect movie, this one is still worth watching if you keep an open mind.

Boring, Senseless and Stupid

[claudio_carvalho · 3/10 · 7 September 2016]

In an isolated house in the woods, a widower (Callum Keith Rennie) lives with his daughters Nellie "Nell" (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood). When there is a power outage in the area, they have problems to get fuel and supplies in the nearby town. Soon there is a general power outage and the family stays isolated without means of transportation. Out of the blue, the man has an accident with a chainsaw and dies. Now the two girls have to learn how to survive in the wilderness.

"Into the Forest" is one of the most boring and stupid films recently released. The performances are good but the situations are impressively absurd. There is no explanation for the power outage. The girls have just five liters of fuel, and one of them wants a share to use in the generator to listen to music and dance. The same girl is raped and prefers to bring a baby to a world without any perspective. Leaving the house in the rain to deliver the baby inside a tree is ridiculous. But burning their house to the ground because of the smell to stay in the rain with a baby, food, books and pictures and improvise a camping tent in a tree is absolutely nonsense. My vote is three.

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A Very Good Movie

[yigitkn · 8/10 · 28 September 2016]

This movie tells us the story of building a new life without ordinary acquisitions of the modern world as well as the basic human needs such as safety, sheltering and hunger. The post-electricity set-up is very simple in an isolated environment and we do not know the reasons but this is not important at all. The main focus of the movie is on human emotions and reactions.

Just like the characters, we feel unsafe and helpless throughout the entire movie. The movie wants us to ask ourselves some basic questions about the concepts of home, family and society.

Cinematography and acting are also great. Page and Ellen are perfect in their leading roles as well as the chemistry between them.

This movie is not about saving humanity from a power disaster or an alien attack. It is not trying to set remarkable hero stories or highlighted character speeches. However it is quite a good movie which has a story to tell and some questions to ask.

A subtle truth

[cnycitylady · 7/10 · 21 November 2016]

'Into The Forest' is a post apocalyptic film about two sister learning to survive on their own in their cabin home. The film hits the ground running, immediately relieving the characters of their electricity and forcing their ingenuity to take form.

There is nothing foreign or alien about the film. There isn't a war going on and their isn't an invasion from another planet; society just stops working. This leaves you chilled to the bone as the things that were once commonplace become the very things that nightmares are made of. The human element of this film is both what gives you the hope to move forward and the despair that holds you back. There is also an element of unease that makes you nervous the entire time because we all know that people cannot be trusted.

Page and Wood excel in this character piece about survival and loyalty, and will make you want to go home and hug your sister. 7/10

In a post apocalyptic scenario your biggest concern is.....Mold

[MdlndeHond · 3/10 · 31 July 2016]

If Teen Vogue made a remake of Temps Du Loup, this is what it would look like. It's not bad but for an connaisseur of dystopian & post apocalyptic fiction I tell you this will not be a classic. For a film about two sisters, one Lycra clad and fashionable, the other boyish living in a glass house in a forest in the midst of a disaster of world wide proportions the film is lacking the sense of emergency and impending doom you would expect in this scenario. When disaster hits one has major issues to solve (like bickering about music, ballet audits and mold) before even finding out what kind of disaster has occurred. After fighting off intruders, living on rations for months you know what will finally drive you out? Mold!