Haunted Forest is a 2017 Filipino supernatural horror film directed by Ian Loreños, and starring Jane Oineza, Maris Racal, Jameson Blake and Jon Lucas. It tells the story of a teenager who is forced to leave her life behind when her estranged policeman father is reassigned to the province. The film deals with supernatural mythical creatures, among them is the "sitsit,"[3] a creature that preys on women at night and is believed to be the cause of sudden disappearances and deaths of women in the subject town. Haunted Forest was released in Philippine cinemas as an official entry to the 43rd Metro Manila Film Festival, on December 25, 2017.
Plot: Haunted Forest: Nica is a daughter of an investigator, who passes a forest and hears the whispers of the “sitsit” – a monster haunting the woods. Slowly, strange things begin to happen to Nica – the same weird happenings that have killed other girls who have seen the monster myth.