Director: Sarah Lyons
Found-footage horror lives or dies on how convincingly its fakery collapses into something real, and The Woods bets its entire runtime on that turn, sending a couple chasing a Bigfoot documentary straight into the one story they never planned to film.
What is The Woods about?
Mark and Rebecca set out to shoot a mockumentary about Bigfoot, with Mark fully prepared to fake the evidence himself by snapping twigs and pressing fake prints into the dirt. Their plan starts to fall apart once they begin talking to locals near the treeline, and the closer they get to the woods, the less staged the footage they are capturing starts to feel. Director Sarah Lyons keeps the camera handheld and the pacing patient, letting dread build through ordinary conversations before the couple realizes their fabricated scare has company.
Cast & crew
Taylor Harris-Butler and Samantha Evans lead as Mark and Rebecca, playing the shift from staged bravado to genuine unease with a naturalistic, low-key style suited to the found-footage format. Troy Tripicchio, Jakob Martinez Cooper, Sean Cole, and Todd Jones round out the local voices the couple encounters, several of whom seem to know more about the woods than they let on.
Context & significance
Released in 2024, The Woods sits in the long-running found-footage cryptid tradition, using a small American cast and a modest 86-minute runtime to keep the scope tight rather than sprawling. Its IMDb score of 4.8 reflects a film aimed squarely at genre loyalists rather than a broader crossover audience, and its low-budget aesthetic works in its favor whenever the story leans on suggestion over spectacle. The premise of a faked documentary turning uncomfortably sincere gives the film its clearest hook.
Where & how to watch
The Woods is available on K-Time with a Persian dub, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow Mark and Rebecca's unraveling plan without needing subtitles. This page can be read by anyone, and streaming the film itself only requires a K-Time account login, after which the dubbed version plays inside an interface built with the Iranian diaspora audience in mind.