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Something struck me immediately as a bit off with this movie; it looked old, like mid 2000s clothes and film... So I look at the imdb page and sure enough this seems to be the director's previous film from 2008 just retitled and repackaged as a horror.

It might appeal to fans of old mumblecore Adam Wingard, like Pop Skull or Horrible Way to Die, but it is tangentially related to horror at best.

The terrible amateurish "Enter the Wild" is one of those overrated movies in IMDb with the wrong genre (horror?). The storyline is awful with a screenplay that does not develop the unpleasant characters and uses the most absurd situations and dialogues. The pace is inadequate and boring, and the dismal camera framework is ridiculous, cutting the heads of the characters in every close-up. The cinematography and locations are also very poor. It is funny to see the gorgeous Ella Scott Lynch wearing mini-skirt in the wild and changing clothes many times along their journey. Watching this movie is a complete waste of time. My vote is two.

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Just completely boring, slow, not the slightest bit scary. Not a horror movie from any angle. Don't waste your time. Best of all there is no ending.

There is no horror to this, it is just young friends on a short camping/hiking trip that run into outdoor challenges and explore their feelings and relationships. I guess the makers/marketers decided that romance and feelings while camping was a hard sell so they called it a 'HORROR' movie but there is no horror, no monsters, no bad guys, no creatures or supernatural forces, no unusual forces of nature or anything else of 'horror' just feelings and relationships. The acting is fine and everything else is fine but there isn't anything exciting to it just an OK portrayal of what? Relationships and feelings.

The movie was slow, characters weren't engaging. A horror film this was not. A film on what not to do when bushwalking, yes. And the ending, no ending at all. Just 96 minutes you'll wish you could get back. I would like to say that an EPIRB, a GPS compass, a map, reliable communication, adequate suppies, all are a must if you are going deep into the bush. And, tell someone where you are going and when to expect you back. Doing anything else does not end well, much like this film.

Wow, this film was described as something about an animal in the wild. It wasn't at all. It was awful! I kept watching hoping something good was about to happen and before I knew it I was at the end where you had no idea what happens to the part of the group that is where they are. It an awfully made Aussie film, I honestly can't believe the rating is where its at, unless the actors and writers, etc. got everyone in their family to give it the highest rating possible to bump it up. I feel if this was a rating that was accurate to the film it would be somewhere around 3.2 and thats being fair because it obviously took some work to write it and film it. The acting was appalling from some of the actors and Uh from others, not good not bad, must beige, its the only word I can think of to describe them.

I am amazed at the amount of votes giving it a 10 and a 9! I've given it a 2, and thats because I feel bad just giving it a 1 or zero, which your unable to do anyway, if you could give a zero I'd of given it a 1 in that case.

I'm honestly not being mean, I like to give honest reviews so with that said, please don't waste your time watching this, find something a little more on the edge and maybe that is more honest to the title. The only animal you see in this a few little crayfish (I think thats what they were, or blue lobster but I believe their in the sea) and a bird flying high in the sky. As for laughs, nope not any of those, sadness, nope none of that, and no fear either. Just a few omg's and yawns.

This film is really, really bad - says its a horror, its not... its pretty difficult to say what it is other than complete and utter crap.

We have a cast who can't act who ultimately you do not care about what happens to any of them one iota, an achingly slow story, the scenery isn't even particularly nice and the whole thing centre's around five people who go off into the woods. Believe me when I say you have seen this a hundred times before, its so predictable and you can literally guess what is going to happen.

Give it a swerve, its rubbish!

Not a horror film! What's the genre for slow pace, boring, nothing happens nonsense?

Essentially a film about "feelings" and "fools." You'll be scratching your head and asking a lot of questions throughout the film, but the biggest question (that will likely have no answer) is "why did I gamble on this film?"

To be fair there are a few "pearls" in the film, but simply not a sufficient amount enough to make up for what is lacking, of which there is A LOT.

Remember how I said there was no answer to the big question you'll be asking? Well actually there is and you can find it at the end of my first sentence in quotation marks. Welcome to the club.

First of all it's not a horror and secondly congratulations on being the first film I've watched where I haven't liked or cared about what happens to any of the cast! Its like a really bad episode of Home and away, where they get lost in the woods......thats it......really

This is in no way in shape or form a horror! Why would the classification be horror?! Very bad movie.

Please change the genre from Horror to Drama. It is about friends betraying one another while getting lost on a hiking trail

Why on earth, would this movie be remarketed and packaged out again after 10 years. This is good example of why I hesitate with Aussie movies. The only horror to come out of this movie, was the horror that it was ever made! Having grown up in Australia and spending a huge amount of my activities camping etc....one of the most important part of any trip is back up. Good grief! The movie was so bad with so may holes, that I just wanted to dig a hole for myself to hide my embarrassment. What made me laugh was that they get to the last leg and show a sigh of releif, then the movie ends with them on top of plateu surrounded by cliffs....Sorry, but when I look back on what I just saw, I just laugh!

Bad acting, editing and directing... The 'Horror' Team.

Not horror in any way form or shape (that's OK in itself, but wrong classification nonetheless). Not good plot (I'd go as far as saying not a plot at all). Not good acting. Not good cinematography. Not likeable characters. Not realistic. Not any ending. And no, not clever, not deep, nothing to reflect on, not avant garde - no nothing.

What it is: Shallow, pointless, unrealistic, badly acted, badly written, badly photographed, unfinished (it's as if they suddenly ran out of film and money), annoying and with whiny, unbelievably stupid characters.

How on earth this has an almost 6 rating remains a mystery. Something is wrong here... I had to submit this review in an attempt to contribute towards some balance in the rating.

I spent 40 minutes waiting for the HORROR to kick in and I was so bored I checked the reviews here. I should have read these reviews first.

Enter The Wild is NOT a horror film. Four friends plus a guy (I don't actually know why he is part of the story) decide to go for a hike to find a wollemia pine (a rare kind of tree). They have no equipment and are completely untrained. As a result, they get lost and start to quarrel over events connected to their lives. This film is more like a drama, there aren't monsters or ghosts. There is actually nothing spooky or creepy in this story. People, don't waste your time watching it.

Why is it that Australians are terrible actors? This movie proved to be just that, terrible. Got no words to describe the movie almost 2 hours long and nothing interesting happenes through out the film. Bitch fights here and there and that's it. Waste of film time.

This is Monkey Puzzle (2008). Same director (Mark Forstmann), actors, script, and entire movie. Not a re-shoot, or re-branding, but the exact same movie. I have no idea how they got away with giving this a new title and production date. This is a scam, and it's a drama, not a horror movie.

Two bests friends, a couple females and a dubious acquaintance take a four-day hike into the barren Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, where they face the challenges of the primitive backwoods, not to mention strained friendships and unrequited love. Can they make it back alive and well?

"Enter the Wild" (2018) is a drama/adventure set in the empty sticks of eastern Australia. It comes in the tradition of "Deliverance" (1972), "Nightmare at Bittercreek" (1988), "The Edge" (1997), "Black Rock" (2012) and "Backcountry" (2014), except that it's more mundane than those. In other words, the merciless sticks are the 'antagonist,' not some perverted hillbillies, paramilitary types, an aggressive bear or a boogeyman with a machete. Imagine the set-up of those films with the dramatic approach of "3 Nights in the Desert" (2014) and you'll have a good idea of this one.

Despite some disappointing ambiguities in the last act, the filmmaking is professional, the acting is convincing and the cinematography of the Blue Mountains is awesome from beginning to end. Ella Scott Lynch as Pippa is a plus. If you love nature, hiking and real-life drama, you'll probably appreciate what this flick has to offer. If you need a contrived threat or an explosion every ten minutes, stay away.

I found out after viewing that this is synonymous with "Monkey Puzzle" from ten years prior (2008). Yes, it's the very same flick. How they got away with rereleasing it as a DIFFERENT movie a decade later is a great mystery.

The film runs 1 hour, 36 minutes, and was shot in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

GRADE: B-

Slow and not scary at all. I find horror films are a hit and miss. This one really disappointed but of course no film that is filmed well and had effort put in is worth a 1. I just can't bring myself to go above 5. It's passable and that is it.

For starters, this is an old movie from 2008 called Monkey Puzzle. It was a flop then, and it's a flop now. No character development, extremely weak dialogue and a story that makes me wanna cringe. Why would these untrained, unskilled people try to find some tree that they weren't sure was even there? Throw in the fact they had hardly any food or solid directions? The acting was terrible and, as an Aussie, made me feel sad that other people from around the world would see this garbage.

Wanna see a good Aussie flick? Go see The Castle, Muriel's wedding, Priscilla queen of the desert, Strictly Ballroom etc... Or, go take a dump in a bucket, would be much more entertaining than watching this rubbish.

Let me start out by saying the acting in the movie was actually not too bad. But with a weak plot and empty "fillers" this movie just falls flat on its rear end. Miscatergorized in thriller/horror is its first problem. I've seen scarier moments on nickelodeon's goosebumps and I'm not exaggerating! So many pointless holes and what just seemed like a non existent antagonist. Most of the movie is just conversations in which you still don't feel any connection with any of the characters. I had high hopes for this one but from beginning to end just a whole lot of..........nothing.