The Forest

The Forest (2016)

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A new teacher arrives at a small village in rural Thailand. He has just left the monkhood and has taken a job at the local school in a quest to discover life outside the monastery. He finds that one of his pupils is a mute girl who is being bullied by the other children in the class. Both the teacher and the girl must face the challenges and cruelties of the real world. The girl retreats into a fantasy world, finding solace in the forest with a strange wild boy. The teacher struggles to bring her back, whilst at the same time himself questioning the world of reality. The worlds of fantasy and reality clash with tragic consequences.

Date of release
2016-03-09
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Director
Paul Spurrier

Casting

Interesting facts

The Forest is a 2016 Thai supernatural horror film written, directed, shot and edited by English filmmaker Paul Spurrier, with the help of his wife Jiriya, and starring two first-time child actors and Asanee Suwan. The screenplay in its original language form was translated by one Preeyaporn Chareonbutra, who had done likewise with Spurrier's previous Thai film production, P.

Production

To choose the filming location, Paul Spurrier drove 3,000 km (1,900 mi) in Isan, and eventually settled on a school in the city of Udon Thani. He cast the film by auditioning residents, including schoolchildren, from the area.

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