The Forest Hills is a 2023 American crowdfunded independent horror-thriller film directed and written by Scott Goldberg.
It stars Chiko Mendez as Rico, a man who, after hiking in the Catskill Mountains, begins to experience "nightmarish visions" involving his mother (Shelley Duvall).
"[1] Cory Cowley, Michael Krysiewicz, Jennifer Pearl, Robert Leckington, Tammy Mattox, Daniel Mione, Christopher Allen White, Savanna Carmichael, Brian Michael Finn, Alethea Maguire, J. Jones, Taylor Vigee, Ariel Elizabeth Acosta, and Joel Fontaine play victims.
Duvall, who had been retired from acting for 20 years,[7] was initially cast in a cameo similar to "a Friday the 13th Pamela Voorhees type of flashback".
[11] To Entertainment Weekly, Goldberg described Duvall as "an amazing actress to work with, and I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to direct her.