Forests seem to always have a darker side to their natural beauty. The broken family in the indie flick The Healer by Giorgio Serafini goes out for some good old-fashioned bonding time in the wilderness when they become lost in a forest amongst its supernatural denizens.

Variety reports that Joel Courtney (Super 8, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn) and Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games, Orphan) have been cast as the teenage twins who go with their father, played by James LeGros (Mildred Pierce, Point Break) on a camping trip, and Natalia Dyer (Unicorns, Hanna Montana) has been cast as “the mysterious being sent to protect Courtney’s character from the various creatures that are out to destroy him.”

[Above: James LeGros, plays the father of the twins]

Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing the project under the Italian company, Smile Productions. Production will begin next week in North Carolina.

Synopsis:

An ailing father, who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery, takes his teenage kids into the woods to try and recapture their early closeness, before he and his wife divorced and everything changed. But the three are swept into a supernatural adventure, in which only their Father, Chris, “The Healer,” has the ability to control their destinies. Lost in a haunted forest from which there seems no escape except death, this moving and sensitive script tells a beautiful story of a family’s tragedy & resilience.