I thought of The Hallow after watching this - a couple who are menaced by a monster or monsters from the woods with a folkloric origin, who seem to be a weird kind of hybrid creature. Both films are fun without necessarily being scary.
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Er, sure, in a very broad sense the general plots are slightly similar, I mean, you could make the same broad comparison to literally dozens of horror movies, but The Hallow was a top notch horror movie, one of the best in recent years, with great atmosphere and effects, whereas this is a straight to video sh!tfest with awful, unlikable characters, embarrassingly bad effects, and a story that's 90% time-wasting filler. They're not in the same class at all.
shareAll I said is that Arbor Demon reminded me of The Hallow, especially as a more recent movie. Can you name at least 5 movies out of the "literally dozens" of horror movies that fit the criteria I outline above, that came out in the last 5 years? Just curious.
Your argument also seems to be that they can't be similar because you like one and not the other. That's an argument about effectiveness or preference, not structure.
I actually liked Arbor Demon better than The Hallow. The idea behind the creatures was too muddled - the mixture of science and folklore, fairies and fungus, didn't make much sense. Also, I thought the characters, especially the father, in The Hallow were far less likable. The guy pokes around a decomposing corpse with his child on his back - he's way too cool and arrogant to let anyone stop him. Still, overall, I did find it fun, but only that. I wasn't as impressed with it as you. I would say both are slightly above average films, worth a one-time watch but that's probably it.
By the way, this isn't straight-to-video as I saw it in the theater, and it was shown at festivals last year. Yes, it was released on VOD also but that's not that uncommon nowadays.
"every time godzilla loses to mothra I die a little bit more"--Godzillaswrath