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 | |
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Written by | Ryan W. Smith Sheldon Wilson |
Directed by | Steven R. Monroe |
Music by | Andrew Harris |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Tom Berry Paul Hertzberg Lisa M. Hansen |
Producer(s) | John Prince |
Cinematography | Michael C. Blundell |
Editor(s) | Christopher A. Smith |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Production company(s) | CineTel Films |
Distributor | Syfy |
Release | |
Original network | Syfy |
First shown in | United States |
Original release | October 19, 2013 |
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]
See also
References
- Wain, Dave (October 31, 2014). "Grave Halloween: Film review". Scream. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
- Adams, Guy (October 21, 2014). "Grave Halloween. Film Review". British Fantasy Society. Retrieved October 31, 2014.