How to enjoy this film

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2002)

People either are very scared by this film, or they don't find it scary at all. The key to being affected by this film is to allow your imagination to work overtime. You have to want to be scared. You have to imagine that it is you out there in the woods, and forget that it is only a film.
People who are familiar with Freud's theory of the uncanny will understand how the unknown can be more disturbing that what you know or see.

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For example, many people say "what's so scary about a stupid pile of rocks or sticks"? Well this is where the theory of the uncanny comes in. If you had spent the night in a tent in the middle of a forest, only to get out in the morning and find an intricate pile of rocks only inches from your tent, you would be very disturbed. It is clearly not normal. Who in their right mind would be out in a forest like that? You would think that this psycho had been only inches from you, while you were asleep and vulnerable.
Add to this the noises in the middle of the night, which seem to come from all directions, terrifying in the dark, where you can only see with the camera light a few metres in front of you. So to enjoy this film, forget the normal hollywood conventions of horror, deal with the jerky camera movements, and imagine that it is you out there.