cjrmnf I think the acting was meant to represent real college students, not actors. If you watch it as if it were real, you'd see it in a different light.The actors looked like real people, not models...that was a plus. It also didn't contain a lot of CGI "stuff" that other people try to use to scare you. The only problem I had with it was it wasn't creepy enough though it did keep you guessing about when and where the bad guy/girl would jump out.Was the acting stellar? No but it wasn't nearly as bad as advertised. I watched "The Apparition" with Ashley Green (Alice from Twilight) and she was absolute TRASH in it...you EXPECT stellar acting from her, not these guys.I'm not claiming it's great but it's not bad...decent for such a low budget and worth a look if you like found footage films.

sam_hunt This movie actually made my head and body hurt because of how bad it was. The script is terrible the acting is awful, and I'm pretty sure in some early scenes some of the actors were laughing.... I'm assuming because they themselves couldn't believe they agreed to this. The bet part of the movie was the trail they were on in the beginning. It's pretty. Reportedly the budget for the film was 6k, and in my opinion you can make something much better than this. The Blair Witch Project had a very low budget as well and to this day is still one of the greatest "found footage" films recorded. I am a huge fan of found footage films and wish more were being made, however if they are all like this from now on, the genre is doomed.

Marie Greene I knew this movie was in trouble when across the screen toward the beginning, it printed that the filmmakers did "are" best to recover the footage. "Are "instead of "our?" Really? Unfortunately, my fears were confirmed. The actors didn't really act, and didn't seem to care that they didn't care. I kept hoping during the first hour that it would somehow get better perhaps when the action picked up, but the action in the first hour didn't pick up. The acting got no better. So, the entire first hour absolutely sucked, and the final part wasn't even scary. Waste of time. I think my own teenagers could have pulled it off better. It seemed a throwaway, just get it done mishmash.

theomere This movie certainly started out fairly promising. A nice premise and a more diverse cast than you sometimes see. Unfortunately the acting deteriorated rapidly; this may have been due to what appears to have been a lack of any real script.Most of the film is spent on the "build up" which more or less amounts to a group of relatively annoying college students bumbling about in a rather pretty looking wood. If I had wanted to watch a school project or a youth outing, I'd have searched for one on Youtube. "Spirit in the Wood" falls for the same traps as "The Blair Witch Project" did, except with much less grace and a severe lack of polish. Not frightening in the slightest.I would love to see this story revisited. With a more creative writer/director, this could have been fairly creepy. The back-story of the woods themselves was certainly disturbing.My friend tells me that this was Kickstarted. I'm sorry to say that if I had been one of the funders I would have been quite disappointed. I am somewhat confused as to how this movie has earned such a high rating here on IMDb but, then again, I rarely seem to agree with the ratings on horror movies on this site.Basically, don't go into this movie expecting anything and have a better one lined up for afterwards.