Do not, under any circumstance, waste over one hour and half of your life watching this trash -this is my advice for anyone who, like me, is being fooled by the appealing title and premise, believing he/she is about to watch something even mildly entertaining. This is not only mind-numbingly boring, it is also a major bad joke on the general public.
Being the absolute horror movie buff that I am, I was very interested in watching this movie. It was brought to our regional fantasy and horror movie festival and it was the film that appealed most to me. It seemed to be an independent, low-budget horror (a category that puts forward a high ratio of very satisfying surprises) and I was very intrigued by its plot outline: back in the 40s, all the inhabitants of the town of Friar left all their belongings behind and walked on a forest trail. They were all found dead, except for one survivor who couldn't offer a rational account of what had happened. In the present day, a group of some kind of experts decide to go on the same track, hoping to, at least, document what happened and, with some more luck, find answers to the mystery.
The first couple of minutes or so are good, with what look like photographs of the corpses and the derelict town, and the audio recording of the classified interview to the only survivor. From that moment on, what follows is an increasing amount of boring, incoherent, random, inane and -probably, yes- pretentious brain detritus that tries to pass itself off as surreal, off the beaten track, unusual, thought-provoking and probably not suited for everyone (read: the non-intellectuals). The movie is packed with completely flat characters that come and go and do the most bizarre, stupid and pointless things; stupid dialogue; and bad acting. Much worse, however, is the fact that there is no real story that I could comprehend, nor do I believe there is any meaning behind this amount of nothingness, besides the meaning that each viewer will want to attach to it. But when a symbol stands for nothing at all, it accepts any meaning at all, right? My score for this movie is 1/10.
Being the absolute horror movie buff that I am, I was very interested in watching this movie. It was brought to our regional fantasy and horror movie festival and it was the film that appealed most to me. It seemed to be an independent, low-budget horror (a category that puts forward a high ratio of very satisfying surprises) and I was very intrigued by its plot outline: back in the 40s, all the inhabitants of the town of Friar left all their belongings behind and walked on a forest trail. They were all found dead, except for one survivor who couldn't offer a rational account of what had happened. In the present day, a group of some kind of experts decide to go on the same track, hoping to, at least, document what happened and, with some more luck, find answers to the mystery.
The first couple of minutes or so are good, with what look like photographs of the corpses and the derelict town, and the audio recording of the classified interview to the only survivor. From that moment on, what follows is an increasing amount of boring, incoherent, random, inane and -probably, yes- pretentious brain detritus that tries to pass itself off as surreal, off the beaten track, unusual, thought-provoking and probably not suited for everyone (read: the non-intellectuals). The movie is packed with completely flat characters that come and go and do the most bizarre, stupid and pointless things; stupid dialogue; and bad acting. Much worse, however, is the fact that there is no real story that I could comprehend, nor do I believe there is any meaning behind this amount of nothingness, besides the meaning that each viewer will want to attach to it. But when a symbol stands for nothing at all, it accepts any meaning at all, right? My score for this movie is 1/10.