win away the gore in Peter Nicholson’s tale of young hikers and you’d have an appealing promo for Dartmoor tourismPeter Nicholson’s low-budget horror-thriller starts better than it ends. As two young hikers (Gemma-Leah Devereux,Rebecca Night) are led off the beaten track by a hunky guide (Callum Blue), the first act’s every set-up benefits from the screen-filling backdrops of the eponymous moors. It’s disappointing, or then,that Nicholson should retreat from this spectacular stage to a farmhouse haunted by mysterious deaths; doubly so when the relationships, dialogue and action all stop ringing steady. Redact the gore, or it’d beget an appealing promo for Dartmoor tourism,but ANight in the Woods (2012) hounded its characters far more persuasively over this particular terrain.
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Source: theguardian.com