4th of July 2025 Marathoning

When I was a kid in the early 90s, I remember coming home to an excited brother who had rented this movie seen above, based on the box cover seen above. He was heavily anticipating it. Then he watched the movie and let's just say it didn't particularly go well. He was sorely disappointed. Just confirms that cool box art, so manipulatively awesome, was far better than the movie it was advertising. This is a lost art that I lament; sitting through the films was entirely different experience than when the eyes first catch the glimpse of the box art covers. The Forest (1982) is the first of a trio of "backwoods" type slashers to make the Scarecrow Summer Slasher 2013 (along with Don't Go into the Woods Alone & Sleepaway Camp 2), and I recall the most recent time I watched it, Code Red did a bang up job providing the film with some nice special features, an audio commentary and feature about the film's making. This is a low, low budget slasher (as many of them were in the early 80s), but I'm not sure how the film will stand with me on the third time around. We'll see.