Nigel P A couple of unpleasant pack leaders are preparing a group of unpleasant Pathfinder cub scouts for a camping trip. Sam (Maurice Luijten) isn't unpleasant, but he is late for their briefing, which earns him fifty press-ups whilst wearing his back-back. When they reach their intended camping site, the group run into two even more unpleasant youths with a grudge, racing around on a go-cart. This encourages the Pathfinders, who are also cowards, to camp somewhere else … deep in the woods.The two arrogant leaders Chris (Titus De Voogdt) and Peter – or Baloo (Stef Aerts) – are joined by the only female of the group, chef Jasmijn (Evelien Bosmans). Jasmine and Chris go some way to curbing the Pathfinders' bullying ways towards Sam, but the young outcast is more concerned with strange moving shapes in the trees and the legend of a local werewolf called Kai (Gill Eeckelaert).The idea of Kai is a strong and appealing one. A feral child-creature living out in the woods. The more that is slowly revealed about him – and his father – slowly erodes the sinister mystique, which is a shame. And once we learn more about him, the horror aspects become less spectral, and more like solid slasher fare. And yet the twists and turns never stop until … well, even I won't spoil that! This Belgian horror is a terrific production; it contains effective characters, fine set-pieces and some nicely contrived death scenes. For all the killings brought about by a selection of cruel and carefully set traps throughout the forest, the real monster here for me is Baloo. Titus De Voogdt instils him with relentless, cowardly spite and bullying ways, we truly cannot wait for his come-uppance, which can never be horrible enough!

Nikola Bujanovic This is very well written horror movie. It is a nice surprise, a good horror movie coming from Belgium. When you look at complete genre of horror movies, there are a few better movies, this movie will keep you interested, and ending will sure surprise you. Movie is set in the woods, group of kids goes camping there, and that's when the horror starts.Overall, I give it 8 compared to other horror movies, and 7 as movie compared to movies from all other genres.

MattyGibbs A scout group venture into the forest and come face to face with much more than they bargained for. I can't recall ever watching a Belgium horror and so did not really know what to expect. Thankfully this is a very good little movie that is well acted, well produced and very entertaining. I was expecting a generic in the woods scary film but this one never quite goes where you think it will. The first half is relatively slow but nonetheless interesting as you get to know the characters involved. It's worth sticking with as the second half really takes off. Whilst not out and out scary there is a fair bit of gore and a few ingenious deaths. This is one of the best new horror films I've seen in a while and I can't say I was anything but impressed by this little gem.

TheBarleyGuy This one comes to us from the magical world of Belgium, and according to IMDb it is entirely in Flemish and French. I'm glad I looked that up too, because I ignorantly thought it was in German or Swedish for a fashion. Anyways, this movie came along right when I needed it to. It's been sitting in the queue of movies I had waiting, and after my last couple of disappointing viewings I really didn't know what to expect.Directed by Jonas Govaerts and written by Roel Mondelaers, this movie is a f**king blast. Admittedly, I don't know much about how Scouts works in Belgium, so you'll have to forgive my ignorance on that particular subject, but as far as I can tell, this movie is about two insane Scout leaders, a group of lunatic children, and one of the Scout leader's girlfriend, and also a dog. These kids head off into the woods despite a weird, out of place, werewolf legend, and encounter murderous lunatics in the woods.So, this one is an insane amount of fun. The woods have been hilariously booby trapped by (I think) a man who is not responding well to losing his job, and now lives underground, and his son (maybe?) who wears bark on his face and is frightening. The Scout group enters the territory of this evil duo, and all hell starts to break loose.All hell includes the dog getting beaten in a bag (I put that in here not to spoil, but to warn in advance for anyone sensitive to that kind of thing), a jeep running over a tent full of children, and a pit fight between two children. Seriously, that's all in this movie, and it's awesome. Seriously. F**king. Awesome.There are a couple of dropped plot threads, like a not-addressed photograph that Sam carries around, and a bus, buried under ground full of dead people. With that said though, I completely forgive all of that, because it's really just a blast to watch. There are a few instanced of adults hitting children like grown ups which is a bit weird, and it does go to some dark places throughout.It has some scary moments, and everyone in the movie does a pretty solid job from start to finish. Even the kids are believable, if not a little bit a**holey and the movie pulls very few punches, which I can respect.Overall, I give this a strong recommend if you can get your hands on it. It's fun, bloody, and a great watch. Though, I will warn you again, the dog definitely gets killed in this movie and so if you don't want that, then skip it. No, it's not a real dog, but scenes like that can be really hard to take sometimes. www.barleydoeshorror.com