Overview: Every village, every person, has a secret.

None more so than the inhabitants of this isolated, murky village whose fate relies on the luring of two unsuspecting pawns to satisfy their appetite and determine their being.

DVD Verdict: Having sat down and watched this last night, much like a lot of these low (oh-so low) budget B-movies with an acting/directorial heart, sure it's not perfect, but it's brilliant, and subtle '70s homages all buttoned up tight within the grip of a modern day chiller makes this a quite brilliantly suspenseful film!

Chock full of twists and turns galore, all of them beautifully daunting and expertly played out and shot, the slow burning, menacing threat that runs throughout this debut film from Writer/Director Raine McCormack is fantastically woven, and highly effective from the very off (which also has a LOT to do with Cinematographer Berndt Wiese and his keen eye on all-things spooky!)

The storyline is basic, but it honestly doesn't need to be anything more than it is to get us to this spooky village.

Stuart Whitman is great as an impatient movie director looking for a remote location to make an atmospheric horror movie. His impatience with his crew leads him to seek out the location himself and so he subsequently gets lost in the English countryside.

Eventually stumbling upon an (seemingly) abandoned ye olde village in the deep and mist-laden woods (unbeknownst to him ruled by Demons and Ghouls, who feast on dead corpses from the local graveyard and where the only sanctuary from them is the old church), he LOVES it and gathers the troops to shoot there!

Now, don't get me wrong as this is NOT a horror film, per say, moreover 'The Village In The Woods' is better akin to more recent high budget brain-taunting releases such as both 'Midsommar' and the excellent 'The Witch.'

A quite stunning combination of art house and thrill spill, all cloaked within the lovingly tender, albeit perhaps false, embrace of intentionally unanswered questions and decisions made that have you shaking your head, 'The Village In the Woods' leaves you wanting more come the final act, trust me. This is a Widescreen Presentation (2.35:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

'The Village In the Woods' is out on VOD, Digital and DVD on January 19th, 2021 via 4Digital Media.