“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?

The protagonists terrible tattoo in Sons Of The Forest: script on the inside of his right wrist reading ‘Fight Demons’

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.

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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?

Kelvin, a soldier in black tactical gear, sits nest to another soldier with a covered face, in a helicopter flying over water

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.

A screenshot of Sons Of The Forest showing a man’s body impaled on a spike, with a seagull worrying his head

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.

The laptop in the opening of Sons Of The Forest, showing that an old white guy in a dinner jacket called Edward Puffton has been missing for 31 weeks