'Into the Forest' Review

One wouldn’t have to see the poster for Into the Forest – which explicitly states the fact – to know that Gilles Marchand’s film was heavily influenced by Stanley Kubrick’s eternal horror classic The Shining (1980). In the strong opening scene where we are introduced to Tom, the youngest sibling in the story, relaying his sense of intense apprehension about going to visit his estranged father to a child psychologist, one could be forgiven for thinking that it was the young actor who played Danny in The Shining portraying him, such is the resemblance between the two: mop-haired, mumbling, both with seemingly similar psychic abilities, and both with a heightened sense of dread.

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