Grave Halloween

Grave Halloween
Written by	Ryan W. Smith Sheldon Wilson
Directed by	Steven R. Monroe
Music by	Andrew Harris
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Tom Berry Paul Hertzberg Lisa M. Hansen
Producer	John Prince
Cinematography	Michael C. Blundell
Editor	Christopher A. Smith
Running time	89 minutes
Production company	CineTel Films
Original release
Network	Syfy
Release	October 19, 2013 (2013-10-19)

Grave Halloween (also known as The Suicide Forest and released in some markets as Deathly Halloween) is a 2013 Canadian TV horror film. An original production by CineTel Films for Syfy, it was directed by Steven R. Monroe and written by Ryan W. Smith and Sheldon Wilson. The film is set in Japan, but it was filmed in Canada.

Plot

On October 31, a Japanese-born American student at a Japanese University, studying in Japan, Maiko (Kaitlyn Leeb), and an American college student, risks her life to save the spirit of her dead mother. She travels into the Aokigahara Forest to find her birth mother, who has recently committed suicide. Her friends Kyle, Terry and Amber travel with her, in hopes to produce a documentary for a class project.

Cast

• Kaitlyn Leeb – Maiko
• Cassi Thomson – Amber
• Graham Wardle – Kyle
• Dejan Loyola – Terry
• Jeffrey Ballard – Craig
• Hiro Kanagawa – Jin
• Jesse Wheeler – Brody
• Tom Stevens – Skylar
• Kevan Ohtsji – Policeman
• Hyuma Frankowski – Junior Policeman
• Maiko Miyauchi – Maiko's Mother
• Luna Kurokawa – Maiko's Sister
• Isabelle Beech – Young Maiko
• Yukari Komatsu – Bracelet Woman

Reception

Dave Wain, writing for British horror magazine Scream, gave Grave Halloween 1.5 stars out of five, calling the film "a real let-down". Guy Adams, reviewing the film for the British Fantasy Society, said the film was "nothing special but, in an increasingly dense forest of grotty cinematic deadwood, there is enough life in it to be worth your time".

See also

• The Forest

External links

• Grave Halloween at IMDb
• Grave Halloween on Rotten Tomatoes