Grave Halloween

Grave Halloween (also known as The Suicide Forest and released in some markets as Deathly Halloween) is a 2013 Canadian TV horror film. An original production by CineTel Films for Syfy, it was directed by Steven R. Monroe and written by Ryan W. Smith and Sheldon Wilson. The film is set in Japan, but it was filmed in Canada.

Grave Halloween
Written byRyan W. Smith
Sheldon Wilson
Directed bySteven R. Monroe
Music byAndrew Harris
Country of originCanada
Original language(s)English
Production
Executive producer(s)Tom Berry
Paul Hertzberg
Lisa M. Hansen
Producer(s)John Prince
CinematographyMichael C. Blundell
Editor(s)Christopher A. Smith
Running time89 minutes
Production company(s)CineTel Films
DistributorSyfy
Release
Original networkSyfy
First shown inUnited States
Original releaseOctober 19, 2013 (2013-10-19)

Plot

On October 31, a Japanese-born American student at a Japanese University, studying in Japan, Maiko (Kaitlyn Leeb), and an American college student, risks her life to save the spirit of her dead mother. She travels into the Aokigahara Forest to find her birth mother, who has recently committed suicide. Her friends Kyle, Terry and Amber travel with her, in hopes to produce a documentary for a class project.

Cast

  • Kaitlyn Leeb  Maiko
  • Cassi Thomson  Amber
  • Graham Wardle  Kyle
  • Dejan Loyola  Terry
  • Jeffrey Ballard  Craig
  • Hiro Kanagawa  Jin
  • Jesse Wheeler  Brody
  • Tom Stevens  Skylar
  • Kevan Ohtsji  Policeman
  • Hyuma Frankowski  Junior Policeman
  • Maiko Miyauchi  Maiko's Mother
  • Luna Kurokawa  Maiko's Sister
  • Isabelle Beech  Young Maiko
  • Yukari Komatsu  Bracelet Woman

Reception

Dave Wain, writing for British horror magazine Scream, gave Grave Halloween 1.5 stars out of five, calling the film "a real let-down".[1] Guy Adams, reviewing the film for the British Fantasy Society, said the film was "nothing special but, in an increasingly dense forest of grotty cinematic deadwood, there is enough life in it to be worth your time".[2]

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See also

References

  1. Wain, Dave (October 31, 2014). "Grave Halloween: Film review". Scream. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  2. Adams, Guy (October 21, 2014). "Grave Halloween. Film Review". British Fantasy Society. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
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