825 Forest Drive

Platform: Shudder

Director: Stephen Cognetti

Release Year: 2025

Watch Date: April 5, 2025

My Rating: 8.2

The first thing that I really love about this movie is that it has chapters. There’s three main characters and each main character has their own chapter. And then of course the Forest Road house has a chapter. I love it when you kind of get everyone’s perspective and then the movie brings it all together.

It starts with Chuck, who is Isabel‘s brother and then moves onto Isabel, and then Chuck’s wife Maria. Each one has an experience with Helen Foster who is the ghost in the story. The town of Victoria Falls does not talk about Helen Foster and they have tried to erase her from their history. They’ve also tried to erase the house at 825 Forest Road where Helen is said to have lived with her daughter. Her daughter was bullied at school and eventually ended up killing herself. Helen was very angry about this. She had tried to get people’s attention and get help for her daughter, but no one would listen. She ended up killing the bully and the bully’s parents. She then killed herself in her home.

In 1980, when the town council was going to unseal the city records that would show where 825 Forest Road was they all mysteriously died and the records were never unsealed. Chuck tries to find the house convinced that if they burn it down that all of the bad will stop. They do end up finding the house, but I don’t really want to spoil the end of the movie for you so I’m just gonna leave it at that.

I definitely recommend this movie. I did figure it out pretty early on, but the suspense is totally worth it. The suspense includes a very creepy mannequin that moves on its own. If you end up watching it let me know what you think.

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