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Wish I could of helped these people I live 30 miles from Rendlesham Forrest and there locations script acting filming are all abysmal not to mention the 8/10 reviews on this page lol ( work on the film by any chance) I know all about the Rendlelsham sighting of 1980 so even though I heard this film was bad I thought I've got to watch it. But alas it sucked

Fair play to the guy who spent 3 years making it though

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I know what you mean. I followed the makers of this film on Facebook because I live in Woodbridge, about 5 miles away.
And at the time, before the "great storm" of 87? There still wasn't enough forest in that location to possibly get lost in. That's what killed this film for me, well that and the acting.
Knowing the area was a bad thing for this movie, you could forgive it if wasn't for that.

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That's what made me laugh too. The whole thing is treated as though Rendlesham Forest is about the size of Texas. Well, this is England folks, not the wilds of America or the Australian outback or the Canadian tundra or the rainforests of Brazil. People in other countries won't know, so I'll explain that this forest is - wait for it - about 2.5 miles x 2.5 miles square! There is always road within about a mile even when you are in the absolute epicentre of the thing!

The bit where they carefully cut up their Mars bar rations into thirds (as if this is a scene from "Flight of the Phoenix" or "Alive" or something) had me in stitches.

What next from the director - "The Burning Sands of Brighton Beach", "The Green Hell of Kensington Gardens", "Hopelessly Lost in Deptford High Street With Only A Packet of Polos"?

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Me too! Lol!

I followed the makers of this movie on fb, and actually won a copy of if. I supported them in the run up to its release, then I commented on their page, that the place where East Gate is, there's no more than 100 meters of "forest" between there, an open road, and Potters field where Larry Warren claims to have seen the ufo.

Their response to that was, people don't really know the area - that's neither here nor there, because I know the area - and that ufo's could have been messing with their head's.

So, I said, all they'd have to do is walk in the same direction for 5 minutes, and they'd be at a house, or at least a fire road, which as you say are every few hundred meters in case of a forest fire.

So they basically admitted that they'd fabricated the area t make it seem larger, which pissed me off, because they tried to make it like a documentary, and to anyone who knows that area, it was just laughable.
The scene with the mars bar, I was right with you, almost in tears in fact.

Having said that, I quite liked that they'd used the 1980 incident and the "abandoned" base as part of the story. The abandoned base, not so abandoned, and had been holding a ufo for more than 30 years. I thought that was pretty cool, but knowing the area just killed this movie for me.

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One more thing, they actually filmed a lot of this movie away from Rendlesham because of the lack of forest.
They filmed somewhere in Surrey I think, but I could tell by the terrain and even the fauna that they weren't in Rendo.
Just goes to show, you'd have to be blind and deaf to get lost there, even then just walk straight for a few minutes, chances are you wouldn't hit a tree anyway.

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