Arbor Day: The Root of Evil

Arbor Day: The Root of Evil is a horror film set at a New Jersey campground that shuts down every Arbor Day. Amidst local rumors of strange sightings and missing people, a curious visitor learns five frightening stories that expose a lethal entity lurking within the forest.

The film was produced by Big Damn Films and co-directed by Michael Jayne, John Johnson, and Joe Raffa. For Jayne and Johnson, this project follows their work on Dark Harbor in 2019 and Downeast in 2021. The screenplay was written by Jayne, John Johnson, and Karrie A. Lyons-Munkittrick. The cast includes Logan Liskovec as The Arborist and Joe Raffa as North in the segment titled The Forest of Retribution. Other credited performances include Karrie A. Lyons-Munkittrick and Kevin Troy in the Head Plant sequence, Michael Adam Hamilton as a Park Ranger in Wrap Around, and Nicole Cinaglia in A Quartet of Screams. In total, 21 actors are credited in the production. This United States production has a runtime of 79 minutes.