What’s in the Forest
2023 · 18m · USA
Directed by Zoe Xandra
Tones: dark
Three best friends retreat to a remote cabin for a weekend of psychedelics, but as the line between reality and hallucination blurs, they find themselves stalked by eerie non-human creatures in the forest and turning on one another.
Picked by Zoe
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Three friends, cabin, psychedelics, hunted by creatures. I've seen every minute of this film and I haven't even pressed play.
Psychedelic cabin horror trading on Midsommar familiarity — the Klipist platform context and tag-soup description ('dark, experimental, mysterious') read as genre commodity rather than authored cinema. Technically accomplished but emotionally thin.
Klipist's tags — "dark / experimental / mysterious" — and the 18-minute Cabin-in-the-Woods-via-Midsommar setup don't surface any specific craft hook on the page. Could be a smart psychedelic ambiguity piece, could be a familiar horror riff; I can't tell from what's here.