{"id":61605,"date":"2020-09-07T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/better-alone-in-the-woods-than-alone-with-a-madman\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:43:00","slug":"better-alone-in-the-woods-than-alone-with-a-madman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/better-alone-in-the-woods-than-alone-with-a-madman\/","title":{"rendered":"#Better \u2018Alone\u2019 In the Woods Than Alone with a Madman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a96de62042\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a96de62042\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/better-alone-in-the-woods-than-alone-with-a-madman\/#Never_trust_a_man_with_a_mustache_and_a_homemade_arm_sling\" >Never trust a man with a mustache and a homemade arm sling.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Better \u2018Alone\u2019 In the Woods Than Alone with a Madman<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<ol itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\">\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                          <span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span>                                       <meta content=\"1\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                                           <span itemprop=\"name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a><\/span>                                                         <meta content=\"2\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\">                                                           <span itemprop=\"name\">Reviews<\/span>                                                        <meta content=\"3\" itemprop=\"position\"><\/meta><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">             <span itemprop=\"author\">Rob Hunter<\/span>                   <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>September 6, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Never_trust_a_man_with_a_mustache_and_a_homemade_arm_sling\"><\/span>Never trust a man with a mustache and a homemade arm sling.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Fantasia International Film Festival runs August 20th through September 2nd as a completely online event. We\u2019re used to attending in person in beautiful Montreal, Canada, but we\u2019re excited to cover this fantastic festival virtually too. Our coverage of this year\u2019s\u00a0Fantasia Festival continues with our review of a tale of survival called Alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>The woods are scary, deep, and dark, as they say, and if you\u2019re unfamiliar with the surroundings they can be a struggle to survive within. The challenge only intensifies when a threat of some kind is hot on your trail intent on turning you into fertilizer for the local flora, and it\u2019s the reason why genre films have always relied on dense forests as settings for terrible things. <strong><em>Alone<\/em><\/strong> is no different as it drops a woman and a man in a wooded locale and runs with it \u2014 sometimes quite literally \u2014 delivering a simple but highly effective thriller.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica (Jules Willcox) is leaving the city behind, but it\u2019s not urban living she\u2019s saying goodbye to \u2014 it\u2019s her memories and grief over the death of her husband. She packs her U-Haul trailer and hits the road for the long drive ahead, but somewhere along a remote stretch of the highway she encounters a driver with an attitude problem. The man (Marc Menchaca) finds her in a parking lot later and apologizes, and then she sees him again. It\u2019s a lonely road, but their paths cross entirely too often, and she suspects he\u2019s up to something.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alone<\/em> operates from a simple, no-frills premise, and some bumps in the road aside it delivers with a compelling and suspenseful tale of survival. Director John Hyams pares down the kind of action he captured with the likes of <em>Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning<\/em> (2012) and <em>Universal Soldier: Regeneration<\/em> (2009) and instead goes a far more scr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y route. He takes full advantage of the landscape pairing its natural beauty with the terror of human intrusion, and his protagonist is allowed to be far from an action hero. There are no cool traps or sudden bursts of forest knowledge here \u2014 she struggles and makes do, and Hyams captures the scrapes and thrills that follow.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s opening thirty minutes are wildly successful at stretching out the tension while also nailing the fear that women experience far too often. Should you engage with a male driver causing trouble? Do you let your guard down to accept his apology graciously? Is it wrong to say no to someone in supposed distress if your gut tells you something is wrong? The film\u2019s first half hour runs Jessica through the emotional ringer having to navigate her way around a stranger who could be a potential threat \u2014 or might just be an innocent man in need of help.<\/p>\n<p>Things become more of a mixed bag once the man actually succeeds in abducting her. The film moves at quite a clip leaving no room for sexual assault (thankfully) and instead moving the action into the woods fairly quickly. Some questionable decisions are made by our protagonist, but none are so egregious as to check out from her efforts. The script from Mattias Olsson \u2014 a remake of his own Swedish thriller, 2011\u2019s <em>Gone<\/em> \u2014 s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s away the fat and keeps the lean of the adventure. We\u2019re left with vague sketches of the two characters, and while it\u2019s enough to draw viewers in its leanness leaves emotions off the table.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t help but root for the young widow, but her ongoing grief is never used to truly inform her character\u2019s journey, growth, or transformation. As it stands, her loss is something of a throwaway detail as the narrative doesn\u2019t make it work as expected. Neither her grief nor her love for her husband seems to be fueling her fight to survive, and while neither have to it makes her status as a recent widow fairly pointless in the scheme of things. Instead, she\u2019s fighting to survive based solely on her recognizably human desire to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Both Willcox and Menchaca do great work on either end of the moral divide. Willcox ensures her determination is just as evident on her face as her fear and sadness, and watching her spunky resistance grow across the film is a cheer-worthy shift. Menchaca, meanwhile, balances a banal plainness with an unnerving creepiness to create a character we don\u2019t trust from frame one \u2014 but who still surprises when he proves that mistrust to have been wise.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alone<\/em> is a bare-bones thriller that ticks the most basic boxes of the subgenre. It\u2019s solid and satisfying in the moment, but you won\u2019t be alone in forgetting about it over time.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of Fantasia 2020 here.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/alone-review\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=alone-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Better \u2018Alone\u2019 In the Woods Than Alone with a Madman&#8221; Home Movies Reviews Rob Hunter September 6, 2020 Never trust a man with a mustache and a homemade arm sling. 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