So the story takes its main elements from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale, but some of the details are kind of twisted around. The main character is a guy with a sick mother and a pregnant girlfriend. He's on the road to visit his mother in the hospital when he has a fight with his girlfriend on the phone and ends up flipping his car over the side of the road into the forest. When he wakes up it's night-time and he has pretty bad cuts on his head, a strange girl also discovers him and leads him back to her house where he can rest for the night. When he gets to the house in the woods (called the house of happy children or something) he meets a very weird family consisting of a mother, a father, and three children. They all seem creepily happy, but there's something a little bit off. The parents show subtle signs of great anxiety bordering on fear, and the children seem to be almost acting out what they feel a happy family should be like. Another weird thing about this place is that his requests to be lead out of a mysteriously confusing forest are always pushed aside or ignored. Then one day the parents 'go out' for the day and never come back. A different couple is found walking through the woods, are brought back to the house, and seem to eerily fill the place the parents did. The guy, who they now refer to as uncle, watches in horror as all of this happens. As he wanders around the house and interacts with the kids a little more, he begins to uncover some disturbing secrets, confirming that these kids aren't at all what they seem to be, and neither is the place he's stuck in. The kids in turn also seem to grow more and more attached to him, making the possibility of his ever escaping them seem slimmer by the day. Will he ever find his way out!?
It's supposed to be a horror, but it is more suspenseful than anything else. There are some deviations from the original story. The main character is some 20-something guy instead of the children, and it is he that gets lost in the forest, not they. In fact it is the children and only the children who seem to be able to find their way around the forest, everyone else get's lost and always ends up back at the house. Also, there is no witch in the traditional sense. There is magic which is being manipulated, but it's not by any old woman. Breadcrumbs are used though, and there is some abuse. All in all it was actually pretty well done and is worth the watch.
I actually watched this whole thing on YouTube, it might be amongst the suggested videos listed with the trailer.
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