“It’s a great newsurvivalgame, with cannibals who live on an island!”
And I was like, “wait, so until you turned up to they just eat each other?
How do they have a sustainable population?

What’s going on here?”
Sons Of The Forest is very clearly an early 00s b-movie action thriller.
This is what happened, and you cannot convince me otherwise.

Because we open in media res in a helicopter, any dialogue would be badly synced ADR.
Imagine how many yuks this would be played for in the movie.
The insta-crash, leading to waking up on a beach and discovering the bodies of your be-piked comrades?

Opening your survival kit on the ground?
Those are all shitty action movie beats!
There’s even a woman in a swimsuit with constantly visible nipples.

and hitting your shortcut command for a screenshot as soon as you see it.
Cut to Kelvin explaning how long Virginia Puffton has been missing.
