Critic Reviews

• Nigel Floyd, Time Out

  No amount of shaky-cam footage or imaginative sound design can lend coherence to these improvised scenes, which were shot on location before being patched together in the editing room.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  The build-up (visiting Stonehenge and driving past Dartmoor prison) is quite intriguing, much more so than the things going bump in the night.

• Jeremy Aspinall, Radio Times

  The improvised performances of the cast, the beautiful yet isolated location and dynamic camerawork keep things watchable.

• Charlotte O'Sullivan, This is London

  It's testament to the non-scariness of A Night in the Woods that it makes you want to go out and buy a tent.

• Mike McCahill, Guardian [UK]

  It's unusual in using its 80-odd minutes to burrow down into these characters and match their psychic states with the (still underfilmed) location's physical terrain ...

• David Jenkins, Little White Lies

  A few mildly effective scares, but all so derivative.

• Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express

  Its very Blair Witch-lite, serving up a thin smattering of urban legend with only a few scares towards the end.

• Tim Evans, Sky Movies

  Not a night to remember though.

• Siobhan Synnot, Scotsman

  Competent but not exactly original.

• Kim Newman, Empire Magazine

  With skillful improv from the cast and some genuine frights, this is a worthy retread.

• Rob Carnevale, The List

  The inevitable ending offers nothing new on the Blair Witch template either which feels like scant reward for the effort required in reaching it.

• Matt Glasby, Total Film

  There's plenty of atmosphere, but both the leads and the location deserve better.

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