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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name = A Night in the Woods
| name = A Night in the Woods
| image =
| image = A Night in the Woods poster.jpg
| caption = a horror show a night in the woods
| image_size =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Richard Parry (director)|Richard Parry]]
| director = [[Richard Parry (director)|Richard Parry]]
| producer = [[Allan Niblo (producer)|Allan Niblo]]<br>[[James Richardson (producer)|James Richardson]]
| producer = Allan Niblo<br>James Richardson
| writer = Richard Parry
| writer = Richard Parry
| starring = [[Anna Skellern]]<br>[[Scoot McNairy]]<br>[[Andrew Hawley (actor)|Andrew Hawley]]
| starring = [[Anna Skellern]]<br>[[Scoot McNairy]]<br>Andrew Hawley
| company = [[Vertigo Films]]
| production_companies = [[Vertigo Films]]
| distributor = [[Momentum Pictures]]
| distributor = [[Momentum Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2011|08|29|London FrightFest|ref1=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.horrorchannel.co.uk/articles.php?feature=world+premiere+of+camping+horror+a+night+in+the+woods+replaces+guinea+pigs+|title=Horror Feature: World Premiere of camping horror A NIGHT IN THE WOODS replaces GUINEA PIGS|work=horrorchannel.co.uk|accessdate=3 June 2020}}</ref>|2012|09|07|United Kingdom}}
| released = 7th September 2012
| runtime = 79 mins
| runtime = 79 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| language = English
}}
}}
'''''A Night in the Woods''''' is a 2011 British [[found footage (pseudo-documentary)|found footage]] [[horror film]] written and directed by [[Richard Parry (director)|Richard Parry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Film Review: A Night in the Woods (2011)|url=https://horrornews.net/57995/film-review-a-night-in-the-woods-2011/|publisher=HorrorNews.net|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref> The film premiered at the [[United Kingdom]] film festival [[London FrightFest Film Festival#FF2011|Fright Fest]] in August 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=FrightFest 2011: A Night In The Woods reaction|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/news/frightfest-2011-a-night-in-the-woods-reaction|publisher=Total Film|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref> ''A Night in the Woods'' was produced by [[Vertigo Films]] and stars [[Anna Skellern]], [[Scoot McNairy]], and [[Andrew Hawley (actor)|Andrew Hawley]].<ref>{{cite news|title=A Night in the Woods – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/06/a-night-in-the-woods-review|work=The Guardian|accessdate=25 December 2012|location=London|first=Mike|last=McCahill|date=6 September 2012}}</ref>
'''''A Night in the Woods''''' is a [[2011]] British Horror film produced by [[Vertigo Films]]. It stars [[Anna Skellern]], [[Scoot McNairy]], and [[Andrew Hawley (actor)|Andrew Hawley]] and is written and directed by [[Richard Parry (director)|Richard Parry]].
It is filmed in [[Found footage (genre)|Found footage]] style.


==Plot==
==Plot==
On the 3rd September 2010, London resident Kerry (Anna Skellern) and her American boyfriend Brody (Scoot McNairy) set off to camp at a woodland in the countryside of Dartmoor. Brody brings his camera to document their trip. Kerry has invited her cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley) along to join them, in which at this point, Brody becomes jealous. They arrive at a train station to pick Leo up. Even though Brody's still jealous, he acts natural, and kindly greets Leo.
The film follows Londoner Kerry (Anna Skellern) and her American boyfriend Brody (Scoot McNairy) as they travel to Dartmoor for a camping trip. Brody has decided to document their trip with his video camera. He grows irritated and jealous when Kerry invites her cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley), although Brody tries to hide this by acting friendly towards Leo. The trio stops by a pub, where they hear the story of a local legend called The Huntsman, who carves crosses into the foreheads of sinners before killing them.
On the way to the woods, they stop to a pub, where locals tell them the story of a legend known as The Huntsman, who hunts sinners, carves a cross on their forehead, and hangs them. As they arrive at the woods, Kerry and Leo spend a lot of time joking around together, in which makes Brody even more jealous,
believing that Leo may not be Kerry's cousin at all.
Brody confronts Leo and shows him a footage on his iPod where Leo had sneaked into Brody's and Kerry's home a while ago. Later that night, Brody sets up his camera in the tent hoping to try and catch Kerry and Leo out of a possible affair, and wanders off in the woods leaving them to it. While Kerry and Leo are in the tent, it is revealed that Kerry and Leo are not really cousins, and that they were once in love.
Kerry only told Brody that Leo is her cousin to make things easier. They start having a fling, when Leo hurts Kerry. Leo tries to apologise to Kerry, but Kerry rejects him as soon as he mentions to her that Brody's only trying to replace her recently deceased father. Leo then leaves Kerry alone in the woods.


Brody grows increasingly more jealous of Leo after seeing him and Kerry joking around, making him doubt Kerry’s claims that Leo is her cousin. Things grow more tense as he confronts Leo over footage of Leo sneaking into Kerry and Brody’s home. Brody attempts to catch Kerry and Leo by setting his camera up in the tent, which proves to be effective. It is revealed that not only are the two not related, but that they used to be lovers and Kerry lied to Brody in order to make things easier. Left alone, Kerry and Leo begin to have a fling, which is cut short when Leo hurts Kerry. He tries to apologize, but is rejected when he suggests that Brody is trying to replace her recently dead father. Leo then leaves Kerry alone in the woods.
As Kerry is left alone, strange things start to occur. Very loud clanging noises are heard nearby, Kerry finds three gallows tied to a branch of a tree, and is then chased into the woods by an unseen force. She then gets knocked out, and the unseen force carves a cross on her forehead. She regains consciousness, and when she returns to the campsite,
she discovers Brody's camera in the tent. She then realises that he has caught her and Leo out, which angers her. She then finds his laptop, and discovers thousands of video clips of Brody secretly filming her while in her private time. One clip includes Brody filming her having a nightmare while sleeping,
and another clip shows Brody talking in front of the camera, planning to leave Kerry alone in the woods so she can experience a solitude that he once experienced in exactly the same wood 10 years earlier. This angers Kerry even more. She turns to the camera and threatens to hurt Brody.
Kerry is then disturbed again when something violently shakes the tent. She then hears pained moans and groans somewhere in the woods. She goes to investigate, and finds a devastated Leo crouched down all bruised and cut. Kerry tries to help him, but he suddenly attacks her in a fit of rage.
She is then chased by Leo into the woods, but she manages to outrun Leo as he won't come into the woods for some reason. Brody then appears out of nowhere. He is all bruised and cut, too. Kerry tries to fend Brody off, but Brody convinces her that Leo is not himself and that there's something else
in the woods hunting them.


Strange things begin to happen around the now alone Kerry such as strange noises and nooses tied to tree branches. Kerry is then chased into the woods by an unseen force, who knocks her out and carves a cross on her forehead. She manages to regain consciousness and returns to the campsite, where she angrily discovers the camera that Brody had set up in the tent as well as footage he had been secretly recording of her. This is further exacerbated by footage of her experiencing a nightmare while sleeping as well as a clip of Brody discussing plans to abandon Kerry in the woods so she can experience a solitude that he once experienced in exactly the same woods 10 years earlier. This infuriates Kerry, who then turns to the camera and threatens to hurt Brody.
As Brody and Kerry try to find a way out of the woods, Kerry finds Leo's watch lying on the ground. Brody tries to grab the watch off her, but Kerry runs back the other way. Brody attacks her, but she manages to stab him to death. At this point, Kerry is once again alone and hunted.
Her anger is cut somewhat short when the tent is violently shaken and she discovers a devastated Leo, all bruised and cut. Kerry tries to help him, but he attacks her in a fit of rage and chases her into the woods. She runs into a bruised and bleeding Brody, who convinces her that Leo is not himself and that they are being hunted by an unknown force. They try to find a way out of the woods, but Kerry fights with Brody after discovering Leo’s bracelet on the ground and suspecting Brody of wrongdoing. She manages to fight Brody off, killing him in the process but leaving her alone and hunted in the woods.
She then finds Leo's digital camera lying on the ground, and watches a clip of Brody being attacked and dragged away by something or someone. As she tries to find the way out, she discovers three dug up graves on the ground. She then hears demented screams calling her name nearby, then is violently attacked.

The camera then cuts to black.
Kerry then discovers Leo’s digital camera on the ground, where she views a clip of Brody being attacked and dragged away by an unseen assailant. Frightened, Kerry tries to find a way out but is attacked, causing the camera to cut to black.

==Cast==
*[[Scoot McNairy]] as Brody Cartwright
*[[Anna Skellern]] as Kerry Hastings
*Andrew Hawley as Leo


==Reception==
==Reception==
Critical reception for the film has been mixed, with the film holding a 42% "rotten" rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 12 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Night in the Woods (2011)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_night_in_the_woods/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref> The Daily Record gave ''A Night in the Woods'' two out of five stars, criticizing the film as a [[Blair Witch Project]] ripoff that "fails to provide any real moments of horror".<ref>{{cite web|title=DVD review: A Night in the Woods (15)|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/movies/movie-dvd-reviews/dvd-review-a-night-in-the-woods-1335975|publisher=Daily Record|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref>
Critical reception for the film has been mixed,<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: A Night in the Woods|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jdznn/a-night-in-the-woods|work=Radio Times|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref> with the film holding a 42% "rotten" rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 12 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Night in the Woods (2011)|url=https://rottentomatoes.com/m/a_night_in_the_woods/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref> The Daily Record gave ''A Night in the Woods'' two out of five stars, criticizing the film as a ''[[Blair Witch Project]]'' ripoff that "fails to provide any real moments of horror".<ref>{{cite web|title=DVD review: A Night in the Woods (15)|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/movies/movie-dvd-reviews/dvd-review-a-night-in-the-woods-1335975|publisher=Daily Record|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref> [[Screen Daily]] remarked that the last part of the film was "shades a little too much into incomprehensibility" but praised the film's acting.<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: A Night in the Woods|url=http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/a-night-in-the-woods/5045132.article|publisher=Screen Daily|accessdate=25 December 2012}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|1718714}}


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[[Category:2011 horror films]]
[[Category:British horror films]]
[[Category:British horror films]]
[[Category:Found footage films]]
[[Category:Found footage films]]
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[[Category:Vertigo Films films]]
[[Category:2010s English-language films]]
[[Category:2010s British films]]

Latest revision as of 11:35, 26 March 2024

This article is about the 2012 horror film. For the 2017 video game, see Night in the Woods.

A Night in the Woods
a horror show a night in the woods
Directed byRichard Parry
Written byRichard Parry
Produced byAllan Niblo
James Richardson
StarringAnna Skellern
Scoot McNairy
Andrew Hawley
Production
company
Distributed byMomentum Pictures
Release dates
  • 29 August 2011 (2011-08-29) (London FrightFest)[1]
  • 7 September 2012 (2012-09-07) (United Kingdom)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Night in the Woods is a 2011 British found footage horror film written and directed by Richard Parry.[2] The film premiered at the United Kingdom film festival Fright Fest in August 2011.[3] A Night in the Woods was produced by Vertigo Films and stars Anna Skellern, Scoot McNairy, and Andrew Hawley.[4]

Plot[edit]

The film follows Londoner Kerry (Anna Skellern) and her American boyfriend Brody (Scoot McNairy) as they travel to Dartmoor for a camping trip. Brody has decided to document their trip with his video camera. He grows irritated and jealous when Kerry invites her cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley), although Brody tries to hide this by acting friendly towards Leo. The trio stops by a pub, where they hear the story of a local legend called The Huntsman, who carves crosses into the foreheads of sinners before killing them.

Brody grows increasingly more jealous of Leo after seeing him and Kerry joking around, making him doubt Kerry’s claims that Leo is her cousin. Things grow more tense as he confronts Leo over footage of Leo sneaking into Kerry and Brody’s home. Brody attempts to catch Kerry and Leo by setting his camera up in the tent, which proves to be effective. It is revealed that not only are the two not related, but that they used to be lovers and Kerry lied to Brody in order to make things easier. Left alone, Kerry and Leo begin to have a fling, which is cut short when Leo hurts Kerry. He tries to apologize, but is rejected when he suggests that Brody is trying to replace her recently dead father. Leo then leaves Kerry alone in the woods.

Strange things begin to happen around the now alone Kerry such as strange noises and nooses tied to tree branches. Kerry is then chased into the woods by an unseen force, who knocks her out and carves a cross on her forehead. She manages to regain consciousness and returns to the campsite, where she angrily discovers the camera that Brody had set up in the tent as well as footage he had been secretly recording of her. This is further exacerbated by footage of her experiencing a nightmare while sleeping as well as a clip of Brody discussing plans to abandon Kerry in the woods so she can experience a solitude that he once experienced in exactly the same woods 10 years earlier. This infuriates Kerry, who then turns to the camera and threatens to hurt Brody. Her anger is cut somewhat short when the tent is violently shaken and she discovers a devastated Leo, all bruised and cut. Kerry tries to help him, but he attacks her in a fit of rage and chases her into the woods. She runs into a bruised and bleeding Brody, who convinces her that Leo is not himself and that they are being hunted by an unknown force. They try to find a way out of the woods, but Kerry fights with Brody after discovering Leo’s bracelet on the ground and suspecting Brody of wrongdoing. She manages to fight Brody off, killing him in the process but leaving her alone and hunted in the woods.

Kerry then discovers Leo’s digital camera on the ground, where she views a clip of Brody being attacked and dragged away by an unseen assailant. Frightened, Kerry tries to find a way out but is attacked, causing the camera to cut to black.

Cast[edit]

Reception[edit]

Critical reception for the film has been mixed,[5] with the film holding a 42% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 12 reviews.[6] The Daily Record gave A Night in the Woods two out of five stars, criticizing the film as a Blair Witch Project ripoff that "fails to provide any real moments of horror".[7] Screen Daily remarked that the last part of the film was "shades a little too much into incomprehensibility" but praised the film's acting.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Horror Feature: World Premiere of camping horror A NIGHT IN THE WOODS replaces GUINEA PIGS". horrorchannel.co.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Film Review: A Night in the Woods (2011)". HorrorNews.net. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  3. ^ "FrightFest 2011: A Night In The Woods reaction". Total Film. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  4. ^ McCahill, Mike (6 September 2012). "A Night in the Woods – review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  5. ^ "Review: A Night in the Woods". Radio Times. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  6. ^ "A Night in the Woods (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  7. ^ "DVD review: A Night in the Woods (15)". Daily Record. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  8. ^ "Review: A Night in the Woods". Screen Daily. Retrieved 25 December 2012.

External links[edit]

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