Saw this at the Imagine 2024 film festival in Amsterdam. Apart from lead actor Grace's presence, I cannot find anything useful in this movie. The binding story is left in the dark (no pun intended) and gets lost in the woods (again, no pun intended), and there is no information about the family in question, and how Grace, David and parents lived together.
(Side note: I've read about an abusive father in the synopsis on the festival website. The movie itself did not tell us that. Ditto, the town's past when mining was the center of their world, now derelict, was also derived from the festival's website. A vague hint to its relevance became clear not until the last scene. End side note.)
Maybe the Australian accents were the cause that some dialog escaped me, information that might possibly have been useful to get the family circumstances and tell us more about the town's past. The random chronology of scenes and fragments, by some reviewers applauded as something clever, did not help much either. Of course, it is a daunting thought to be abandoned by your guide, to get lost in those vast woods, and to sprain your ankle too, all that heading to an unclear target, but that alone does not make a good Horror movie.
As a seasoned Horror watcher, I was not impressed by the bloody raid on a group of campers, and particularly not by the strange ritual when hanging the corpses upside down on trees, covered in blood drenched blankets.
All in all, lacking a real plot, throwing in unclear developments, and devoid of interesting protagonists, this so-called Horror consists only of a large collection of trees and darkness to render it scary. Pity to write it down so harshly, but that's all there is.
