Honouring the Worst Movies of the Noughties - #1: The Singing Forest

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"Writer-director Jorge Ameer's bare-bones vanity project has one incredible premise, one that is so ridiculous and over-the-top it would have been difficult to take his film seriously even if the rest of the film's elements were top-notch (they are not)." - G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

"At one point the dialogue is completely drowned out by the roar of the surf, and that is no doubt a blessing." - Ken Fox, TV Guide

"To describe this supernatural soap opera as inept and mawkish doesn't really begin to evoke the awfulness of "The Singing Forest" [...]. Exploitative, amateurish, prurient and pretentious are other adjectives that could also be applied to this film" - Stephen Holden, New York Times

If nothing else can be said of 'The Singing Forest,' it is assuredly fearless in defying credibility at every turn and on every level. - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times