Grave Halloween

*Grave Halloween*
Grave Halloween
Written by	Ryan W. Smith; Sheldon Wilson
Directed by	Steven R. Monroe
Music by	Andrew Harris
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Tom Berry; Paul Hertzberg; Lisa M. Hansen
Producer	John Prince
Cinematography	Michael C. Blundell
Editor	Christopher A. Smith
Running time	89 minutes
Production company	CineTel Films
Distributor	Syfy
Release
Original network	Syfy
First shown in	United States
Original release	October 19, 2013

Grave Halloween (also known as The Suicide Forest and released in some markets as Deathly Halloween) is a 2013 Canadian TV horror film. An original production by CineTel Films for Syfy, it was directed by Steven R. Monroe and written by Ryan W. Smith and Sheldon Wilson. The film is set in Japan, but it was filmed in Canada.

Plot[]

On October 31, a Japanese-born American student at a Japanese university, Maiko (Kaitlyn Leeb), risks her life to save the spirit of her dead mother. She travels into Aokigahara Forest to find her birth mother, who has recently committed suicide. Her friends Kyle, Terry, and Amber travel with her, in hopes of producing a documentary for a class project.

Cast[]

Kaitlyn Leeb – Maiko
Cassi Thomson – Amber
Graham Wardle – Kyle
Dejan Loyola – Terry
Jeffrey Ballard – Craig
Hiro Kanagawa – Jin
Jesse Wheeler – Brody
Tom Stevens – Skylar
Kevan Ohtsji – Policeman
Hyuma Frankowski – Junior Policeman
Maiko Miyauchi – Maiko's Mother
Luna Kurokawa – Maiko's Sister
Isabelle Beech – Young Maiko
Yukari Komatsu – Bracelet Woman

Reception[]

Dave Wain, writing for British horror magazine Scream, gave Grave Halloween 1.5 stars out of five, calling the film "a real let-down".^[1] Guy Adams, reviewing the film for the British Fantasy Society, said the film was "nothing special but, in an increasingly dense forest of grotty cinematic deadwood, there is enough life in it to be worth your time".^[2]

References[]

^ Wain, Dave (October 31, 2014). "Grave Halloween: Film review". Scream. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
^ Adams, Guy (October 21, 2014). "Grave Halloween. Film Review". British Fantasy Society. Retrieved October 31, 2014.

External links[]

Grave Halloween at IMDb
Grave Halloween on Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] Wain, Dave (October 31, 2014). "Grave Halloween: Film review". Scream. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[2] Adams, Guy (October 21, 2014). "Grave Halloween. Film Review". British Fantasy Society. Retrieved October 31, 2014.

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