Wake Wood(2011)
2011 · David Keating · 90 min
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Drama · Horror · Thriller
5.6218 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How scary is Wake Wood?
There's a heavy, sad weight hanging over this one from the start, the kind of dread that comes from grief rather than jump scares. It moves slowly, letting a small isolated town and its strange local customs build unease before anything supernatural really shows itself. The scares aren't about being startled — they're about watching something meant to bring comfort slowly turn wrong, and the emotional gut-punch of loss sits underneath everything. By the end it earns some real physical tension and a bit of blood, but the lasting feeling is more sorrowful and unsettling than thrilling.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Wake Wood rates psychological 4/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 18 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 8 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 68 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A somber, grief-heavy slow build that stays hushed for most of its runtime before turning sharply unsettling and intense in its final act.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4.
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