FORESTS OF MYSTERY

RICHARD FREEMAN WRITES: Jon introduced me to Forests of Mystery a few weeks back. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to be any good. How wrong I was. Forests of Mystery shows how great drama and great horror can be done on an almost non-existant budget. Much like the early Dr Who stories, budget restrictions meant that tight scripting, good acting and most of all good script writing held the show together. It's much the same with Forests of Mystery.

The show, that is released online in episodic form, is best described as Blair Witch Project meets Quatermass. Unlike Blair Witch Project but very like Quatermass, it is genuinely eerie. The story could have been scripted by Nigel Kneale himself, and revolves around shady experiments in an ancient, deep forest, with odd specimens brought back to the lab.

Sounds like science fiction so far.

But it also includes Indian folklore, stories from old loggers and some kind of age old woodland entity awakened from its slumber and becoming angry and violent.The whole adventure unfurls through the eyes of two students, Dewey Lansing and Jeff Collins, investigating the weird events like a Happy Shopper Scully and Mulder.

Forests of Mystery is understated (like a good MR James story), well written, well acted, well paced, and above all massively entertaining. I recommend you seek out and enjoy this amazingly fortean show.

DEWEY LANSING WRITES:

Hello everyone -

I just wanted to remind you all that season one (12 episodes total) of the "Forests of Mystery" paranormal web series is available for your viewing pleasure at http://www.forestsofmystery.com/

-- the only web series dedicated to revealing the truth about what's really going on in the deep woods of the Tillamook Forest near the Cascade Forest Research Center --

Dewey Lansing
ForestsofMystery.com