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An arborist and her son journey to the remote estate of a reclusive weirdo to fell some trees. Ellie is currently shaken over the loss of her baby daughter a year prior. The kind of shaky that has her throwing booze in her water bottle in a poor attempt to hide her shame from her son. Her son Wyatt seems a bit troubled thanks to hallucinations of some sort of creature, which he was having before the baby girl’s death but grief helps nothing heal if it’s just festering. This grief could explain his erratic behavior (again, he was seeing something before the death) and him being a prick (but he is a teenage boy and they’re moody pricks anyways) but the property owner would not be out of place wearing a flashing neon sign that reads “ULTERIOR MOTIVES” when it comes to the task he has put in front of the mother and son team. I’d be suspicious clearing out the sinisterly named Wound Woods. Said task causes something supernatural to stir and a very old tragedy to be unearthed that links everyone together. Ellie begins to question just why someone in her profession was necessary to tear down some perfectly healthy trees and it’s further unsettling because the spot was once an open-air children’s theater. Fuck that noise. Wyatt is dead set on his belief that something supernatural murdered his sister while Ellie is growing more frustrated with his inability to accept the reality, no matter how sudden an unfair, of his sister’s death. She’s not really one to talk when it comes to grief management as noted earlier, most doctor’s since the seventies have not prescribed alcoholism to deal with a case of the glums. Needless to say, there’s plenty of brooding from everyone as the paranormal aspect plays around the periphery and may all be in Wyatt’s troubled noggin. Wyatt runs off and Ellie finally gets some answers. The cast is fine and the setting works for whatever spookiness they’re going for but the burn is very slow and not really worth the payoff. It’s a bit more on the unintentionally silly part than scary ghost chills is aiming for. We’ve also seen similar material handled better elsewhere. The two-person crew here is just like the abatement crew from Session 9 in that they really take their sweet-ass time and are easily distracted for someone with a looming deadline dangling above their heads. No great shakes but at least it tried… and then kept trying… and then got sillier… and then just wouldn’t end.
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