The Village in the Woods-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

Plot Summary: A couple is lured into a village where nothing and no one is as they seems. 

I think I’ve finally figured out why popcorn is the favoured snack while watching a movie.

The constant crunching, the kernels getting stuck somewhere between teeth, all this and more is what keeps the mind active. If people were to drink tea or water and watch a movie that drags on, well they would fall asleep.

The Village in the Woods has all the qualities of a sleep-inducing move. There’s too much fog, there are just a few characters and none of them are interesting enough, the plot too eager to appear exciting, and the climax...if you blink, you’ll miss it.

The Village in the Woods could have been a good atmospheric movie had the writing been solid. The movie drags on before a scene toward the end describes what is exactly going on. And it’s just two people talking about it.

There is also a lack of scenes to create tension and fear. The only actors who make somewhat of an impact are the villagers.

THE VILLAGE IN THE WOODS Movie Plot 

The movie begins with a shot of a couple in a car driving down a long road. Lately, every horror movie begins with the same shot of a car on a lonely winding road.

The couple is lost and eventually decide to stop. They’ve run out of petrol anyway. The couple is Jason and Nicky, except she’s pretending to be Rebecca who is the one who is actually inherited the Harbour Inn.

They are in the woods, out in the dark and cold. They sleep in the car and see crosses made out of twigs and straw hanging on the trees.

The couple heads out to look for help and find a large house which is the inn. The couple knocks on the door and an old woman opens the door. She’s friendly and calls Nicky Rebecca after noticing her ring.

Nicky acts super antsy with the ring and makes it super obvious that she’s not who she’s saying she is.

The old woman introduces herself as Maddy and is all handsy with Jason. Nicky just wants to leave but Jason has currency signs for eyes and is focused on the money.

Maddy gives Jason a can of petrol and an offer to stay. But the couple wants to get out of there ASAP.

The car, however, has broken down. Jason returns the petrol but hears Maddy being intimate with the elderly man they met before whose name is Charles.

Jason and Nicky check out the house and aren’t too impressed by its shabbiness and dullness.

Maddy reappears and offers them blankets. Jason thinks the neighbours are nice, but Nicky isn’t too comfortable pretending to be Rebecca.

She sees pictures of Charles in the house and thinks it’s odd that they are old pictures. So how old is Charles really?

Later at night, Nicky needs to go to the bathroom which is outside the inn. She sees and hears something weird. She calls Jason but he doesn’t see anything. Besides, Maddy has shown up to flirt with him and he is considering how to react to a cougar.

Nicky is in a foul mood and pissed off with Jason for not being a better boyfriend and simply wants to leave.

The neighbours keep pestering the couple by bringing them earl grey and bugging them for a dinner party.

Nicky meets Arthur, an old man who goes around with a cane and is basically hostile to the couple.

There is a weird dream sequence where a woman is running in the woods and caught by a demonic creature who takes her without her consent.

In the next scene, Arthur is shown thinking about his wife Anna and forbids Nicky from going close to her grave.

Nicky doesn’t realize that the ring is giving her an allergic reaction and needs people to point it out for her.

Nicky returns and feels exhausted. She also can’t get the ring off. In the evening, at the dinner party, everyone keeps staring at Nicky and she realizes they know the truth.

Jason is fed drugged alcohol and he collapses. Nicky makes a run for it and is warned by Arthur to cut off her finger because the ring wasn’t going to come off and that was what was leading everyone to her. She is ready to have her finger cut but the villagers arrive and take her away.

Nicky is made to wear a wedding dress and has bright red lipstick applied all over her mouth while she’s unconscious.

The Village in the Woods Ending Explained

Arthur is told the reason Anna was killed is that every 300 moons, they need someone to give them a baby that needs to be fathered by a demon. The villagers later feed on the baby bit by bit to retain their...youth. Everyone looks clearly over 60 in the Village. 60 is the new young?

But Anna couldn’t give them what they wanted and hence died. Arthur is burned alive while Nicky gets a visit from the demon. She yells and cries but no one listens. Jason is happily being seduced by Maddy who he dreams to be a younger woman.

The next scene shows another grave by Anna’s. It is Nicky’s grave. The villagers aren’t regretful about her death because she had come to the Village because of her greed for wealth.

Jason is at the inn looking out the window, feeling trapped just the way Arthur was. Maddy and Charles are pushing around a pram, happy to have their baby.

Thoughts about The Village in the Woods

Is there a reason why Jason cannot leave? Why didn’t Arthur for that reason? What use could the villagers have for the husbands of the wives they had defiled by demons?

Just so they could stay in the inn forever and become grouchy. And when another couple catches the villagers’ fancy, he can be mean to them but not tell them to run before they suffer the same fate as him.

Seriously, why didn’t Arthur just tell Nicky and Jason they had to leave before they were used and abused by the demon?

Another mystery that will remain unsolved.

Scare scale: 2/5