Press for The Haunted Forest

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by Chris Jones for Overly Honest Reviews

Every year, haunted attractions across America open their gates to thrill seekers eager to be chased by chainsaws and scared by masked actors. For many, they are temporary playgrounds of fear. For Keith Boynton, Markoff’s Haunted Forest in Maryland was inspiration enough to build an entire feature film around...

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by Jennie Kermode for Eye For Film

There’s an exquisite vignette at the beginning of Keith Boynton’s The Haunted Forest that doesn’t have a great deal to do with the rest of the film but really sets the tone...

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by AntBit for Projected Figures

As a young couple (Andrew LaHaise, Emma Justine) makes out in a car parked at lovers’ lane, he tries to push her to go further. Interrupted by a thudding sound, he heads out to see what it is. A loud sound above sends her fleeing out into the night, but she looks back to see her beau lying dead on the car roof...

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by Travis Brown for Horror Movies Uncut

It’s easy to forget sometimes that horror is more than blood and shadows—it’s also a space where people can finally see themselves. For many young Black men, especially those growing up in suburban America, embracing horror culture has often meant dealing with ridicule or dismissal...

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by Sean Parker for 25 Years Later

Haunt movies have become a bigger part of the horror landscape over the last few years. Films like Haunt, Hurt, and Hellfest have all been relatively successful in providing scares that make us question the sadism of the people providing our fear, especially when we clamor for more, holding the belief that everything we’re witnessing is safe and on the level...

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by Kim Newman for The Kim Newman Website

Every year, FrightFest manages to program a horror film set in one of those American Halloween attractions which are kind of like a ghost train that has spilled over and filled an entire fairground.  Writer-director Keith Boynton obviously got access to a real attraction, a Haunted Forest in Maryland, and built his fun slasher-mystery picture about the place...

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by Kat Hughes for The Hollywood News

Having primarily worked in the arena of drama, for his latest project, The Haunted Forest, writer and director Keith Boynton shifts his focus to horror. His switch in genre has been rewarded with one of the coveted screening slots at this year’s FrightFest film festival, with The Haunted Forest screening in Discovery Screen 3 on both Saturday 23rd August and Sunday 24th August... Read More

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The MOCO Show

Director Keith Boynton (The Winter House, The Scottish Play) is poised to direct his eighth feature film and first foray into horror this Halloween season with The Haunted Forest, starring seasoned genre star Jamie Bernadette (/ Spit on your Grave: Deja Vu) and newcomer Grayson Gwaze... Read More

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WTOP News

Thanksgiving is just a few days away, but Halloween is delivering one last fright to Montgomery County. The feature-length indie horror flick “The Haunted Forest” just wrapped 18 days of filming Monday night at Markoff’s Haunted Forest in Dickerson, Maryland, where the story is set... Read More