Main Cast: Lauren Birkell, Bruce Campbell, Agnes Bruckner, Patricia Clarkson
Release Year: 2006
Country: US
Run Time: 91 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A teenage girl is drawn into the path of the unknown in this tale of terror. Heather (Agnes Bruckner) is a teenage girl whose father (Bruce Campbell) and mother take little interest in her. Heather's parents enroll her in a private boarding school for girls located deep in a remote forest; Heather isn't happy with this turn of events, and she doesn't get along well with her classmates or the head mistress, Ms. Traverse (Patricia Clarkson). As she struggles to make the best of her situation, Heather notices that slowly but surely the other students at the school have been vanishing, and there seems to be a mysterious force in the nearby woods which has been claiming the lives of the young women -- and will soon be coming after Heather. The Woods was the first major-studio feature from director Lucky McKee, who earned enthusiastic notices for his independent film May. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
The Woods is a 2006 filmdirected by Lucky McKee. A psychological horror story set in 1965, the plot is about an all-girls private school which deals with the mysterious incident in the woods that surround the school.
Plot
In 1965, after provoking a fire in a forest, a rebel teenager Heather Fasulo (Agnes Bruckner) is sent by her estranged mother Alice Fasulo (Emma Campbell) and her neglected father Joe Fasulo (Bruce Campbell) to an all girls private boarding school, Falburn Academy, located in the middle of the woods. The dean, Ms. Traverse (Patricia Clarkson) accepts Heather in spite of the bad financial condition of her father. The displaced Heather becomes close friend of the shy Marcy Turner (Lauren Birkell), while they are maltreated by the abusive classmate Samantha Wise (Rachel Nichols). During the nights, Heather has horrifying nightmares and hears voices from the woods, and along the days she believes that the school is a coven of witches. When some students, including Marcy, simply vanish, Heather believes she will be the next one and has no choice but to investigate.
Soundtrack Highlights
"Young and Foolish," "You Don't Own Me," "He Said Goodbye," by Lesley Gore
