# The Woods (2006)

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**Runtime**: 91 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Horror, Thriller
**Directed by**: Lucky McKee
**Written by**: David Ross
**Starring**: Agnes Bruckner, Emma Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Patricia Clarkson, Lauren Birkell, Jane Gilchrist

> *Private school, deadly lessons.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

October, 1965. A single blazing torch marks the edge of an overgrown path.

A troubled girl steps from an iron-gated school at dusk, the woods breathing wet moss and distant animal cries behind her.

Lucky McKee’s debut leans into Folk Horror dread, the camera lingering on bark like gravestones.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, slow-burn

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