I had a friend recently recommend this movie and it FREAKING SUCKED (in case she ever reads this lol I'm kidddddding). I don't know too much about Irish lore except they don't fuck around with fairies. Apparently, Irish forests don't fuck around either. I think this movie is about having a healthy respect for boundaries and shows the consequences of entitlement. This is a very relevant theme in today's society where more and more land is being taken for human development (oooo ok, now I can sort of view this movie as an eco-horror). As a hiker I think we all deserve to roam the forests when we please, however, we have seen that humans do not treat the environment well. If taking a non-ecological approach to the movie, one can argue that the main theme is respecting local lure. There is a lot of divide in this movie from the very beginning where the two main characters are from London and feel like an outcast in rural Ireland. The local people don't make them feel very welcome either, so they become isolated with their baby. The house that the family stays in is also near the forest (I would say on the forest's turf) so I don't view the mycelium mayhem as an offensive attack! If anything, it's defensive trying to get rid of the people intruding upon her (yes, the forest is a lady). I mean the locals didddd (even if very rudely) warn them, but it's hard not to take with a grain of salt when they are already not wanting you in the town. They really just don't want the balance between the local people and the forest ruined (which I don't really understand because the plan is to deforest the whole damn forest anyways...why are they taking it out on this surveyor???). The creatures in this movie were pretty cool! I feel like they were good changelings and banshees that looked like they inhabited the forests. I think they could have done without the book of visions (or gone into it a bit more). I think it was mainly there to allude to the prophecy of Adam (I think that's his name?) becoming part of the forest. The ending was sort of poetic in that Adam sacrificed himself to the forest so his family could be set free. You know...it's about damn time we as humans start payin' up for all the destruction we've caused. The ecological state of our world is the true horror.
Shudder rating: 4 out of 5 stars
My rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars
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