The Woods (2006)
Directed by Lucky McKee
In 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
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McKee s’en remit ainsi à une certaine théâtralité pour appuyer ses efforts sans que ceux-ci ne deviennent exubérants à l’image du Suspiria de Dario Argento, film auquel The Woods paye tout de même ses respects à plus d’une reprise.
Carrie, Suspiria, The Wicker Man, and 1980’s teen high school dramas are all part of the film’s ominous fabric, but the means by which McKee (working from David Ross’ sharp script) references and borrows from these many influences is neither plagiaristic nor stale.
Actually, the reel reference here is more likely the three strip Technicolor effect of Dario Argento’s primal masterpiece “Suspiria”, which McKee does what he can with his small budget to capture.
Long delayed and with good reason, The Woods is a well-made yet thoroughly impenetrable riff on Dario Argento's Suspiria from up-and-coming genre filmmaker Lucky McKee.
Plus McKee himself acknowledges the influence of Argento's "Suspiria", the music of Nirvana, various paintings and sculptures... Needless to say that this hodgepodge is not as singular as May , but it's still a solid flick.
Director Lucky McKee’s second film is another twisted tale involving the sick minds of women, and delves into the psyches of girls both old and young, and bears shades of “Whispering Corridors” and “Suspiria.”
Carrie, Suspiria, The Wicker Man, and 1980’s teen high school dramas are all part of the film’s ominous fabric, but the means by which McKee (working from David Ross’ sharp script) references and borrows from these many influences is neither plagiaristic nor stale.
The beginnings of this character archetype must lie in “Cinderella”, but I am certain that McKee has watched Brian De Palma’s “Carrie” a few thousand times.
Long delayed and with good reason, The Woods is a well-made yet thoroughly impenetrable riff on Dario Argento's Suspiria from up-and-coming genre filmmaker Lucky McKee.
There was an oft-delayed, tossed-aside studio film in the interim (2006's misguided "The Woods"), a quirky episode of "Masters of Horror" entitled "Sick Girl," and an effective if little-seen Jack Ketchum adaptation, 2008's "Red."
His third tale to date of a peculiar young woman violently finding her role in the world — fourth, if weâre counting his Masters of Horror episode — the filmmaker has demonstrated a distinct feminist streak throughout his work, but while May offered up a Gothic sense of romance and relationships and The Woods skewed toward more classical interpretations of the supernatural, The Woman is a languid, obvious thing that falls more in line with his aforementioned TV effort.