Nine High School students head to a remote forest in 1967 Michigan for a weekend camping trip, hoping for escape, fun, and maybe a bit of teenage rebellion. They’ve heard the urban legend: that a strange man once lived in these woods… but they don’t believe it. Like many their age, they think they’re invincible and untouchable. What they don’t know is that the forest was once home to horrific acts of racial violence — and someone still remembers. A reclusive, psychologically damaged man, raised in the aftermath of brutal racism, now lives deep in the woods. Scarred by the past and trained as a hunter, he’s turned the forest into a deadly game reserve. But this time, the prey is human. As the students begin to disappear one by one, the survivors realize they’re not facing a mindless monster — but a man with purpose, trauma, and calculated cruelty. Set entirely in a Viking-hunting ground forest, The Forest is an intense, atmospheric horror film that explores generational trauma, guilt, silence, and complicity — with survival as the only goal. In these woods, nature doesn’t just reclaim the land — it strikes back.
