Some hippies camping in the woods get covered in poisoned LSD (don’t ask) and turn into zombies (again, don’t ask). Yup, it’s another world beater.

Much like the similar “Video Nasty”, Don’t Go In The Woods, Forest of Fear has a “wilderness” with more people in it than trees, features almost as many moments of inspired stupidity, and contains choice lines of dialogue such as, “There’s been some killing”, “Even if he’s retarded, he’s got to learn to get along in this world”, and “I’ve lived in these woods all my life and I’ve never seen a cannibal”.

As you would expect, the “acting” is equally brilliant. While a woman is clawing frantically at a man for help, screaming and trying to get away from a badly made-up zombie, the man simply stands there like a tree and recites his lines like he’s memorising a grocery list. There’s also the total lack of reaction from a man who finds a severed leg in the woods, the worst attempt at acting like a Downs Syndrome sufferer ever, plus there’s some sledgehammer-subtle exposition, and even a smattering of casual racism. George A Romero faithful, John Amplas (Martin, Knightriders, Day of the Dead), turns up in it for a bit of spare cash and somehow manages to act worse than almost everybody else. And that’s no easy task. Unlike DGITW, Forest of Fear does actually feature a music score. Just one that sounds like a bad high school music project which steals liberally from Halloween and Jaws, while using sound effects so shrill and annoying that they could only have been created by the worst type of sadist.