These woods are dark, old, and deeply isolating as the characters struggle to escape them after taking a shortcut when one of their number becomes injured. This lends the proceedings a chilling air of authenticity. Since they spend most of their time lost in the woods, the film was shot in real woods-with the forests of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania standing in for northern Sweden. In addition, the sets and visual effects were very well done, with everything being created on location according to the director. The acting was good, they stuck to the book fairly closely, the locations were suitably foreboding, and the mythological creature that stalks them throughout was visually interesting as well (at least while they kept it obscured-more on that in a bit). Recently Netflix released a movie version starring Rafe Spall, so I sat down to check it out.Īll in all it was better than I thought it would be. It’s a story about four British friends who decide to go on a hiking trip in the forests of northern Sweden and encounter some seriously evil stuff in the deep, dark woods. He is the author of a number of excellent horror novels, but my favorite among them is The Ritual. Adam Nevill is a writer I’ve been following for some time now.
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