The life of a married couple, Patrick and Louis, who after the death of their young daughter, Alice, who has been bitten by a dog to death, has been turned upside down, when they move into living in a small town, Wake Wood, where they meet a pagan ritual that told him to bring back their daughter, in return to have his demands.
The enveloping creepiness of the village setting scores points, which the film proceeds to squander in careless plotting, imprecise effects and a denouement of arrant silliness.
For all its pre-Christian paganism, demon child imagery, blood and guts, David Keating's rural horror movie is at heart an involving portrait of a young couple struggling to come to terms with the death of a daughter.
