The Astral Woods (2023)

The Astral Woods (2023). The Astral Woods: Directed by Isaac Rodriguez. With Alexandria Payne, Marvin Ritchie, Jason Skeen, Keekee Suki. A wife is forced into a life insurance scam and then abandoned at a cabin in the woods. She soon learns the land holds an ancient secret that is not from this world.

“Thereu0026#39;s really no existing genre of bad this falls into easily, more a kaleidoscope of reasons it sucks-not the least of which being how much they use a literal kaleidoscope lens.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot is actually promising on its own, clever enough to have not been done before. Kind of like an Unsolved Mysteries episode meets The Twilight Zone. But enacted by community theater people.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe whole cast, like all four people, just donu0026#39;t act well at all. I mean itu0026#39;s baaad. And the effects bounce between 2000u0026#39;s SciFi Channel Original to film school guy who found an app with filters he really liked; not ugly in themselves, but just a cluster of angles and hues they couldnu0026#39;t decide on so they used them all.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMost of the bottom tier of my ratings hinge on a few key things, but man this one just runs the gambit.”