Taking a trip to the countryside, a woman and her friend tag along with her family on a camping trip only to find that there's something or someone in the woods stalking them, and upon finding the cause is related to a demonic creature released by a curse must find a way to stop it and get away alive.
This was a pretty decent if slightly flawed genre effect. One of the strongest features here is the simplistic setup that provides this with some solid indie thrills. The family trip and the brief bits we get there about it offer enough to get an idea of what's going on as the hints of a dynamic relationship are a fine way to go about here. Seeing how their issues here provide a means of establishing the strained nature the trip is intended to solve plays a big role in getting us on their side while also getting them out to the woods. Once the group is out there, this one starts in nicely with the supernatural antics on display. Already aware of something malevolent due to the opening encounter, this one generates the fine start to these strange things happening throughout the woods. Starting with the encounter with the stranger to hearing noises in the darkness and the confrontation with the being outside the tent, there's a rather fun build-up here to the underlying suspense of the situation while also playing nicely into their burgeoning paranoia and mistrust with each other. That is brought about even further in the fantastic finale where the creature traps them inside the bunker and begins employing all manners of solid stalking and gory confrontations which give this a lot to like. There are some minor factors here that hold this back. One of the main issues here is the stereotypical arguing and confrontational work here involving the family at odds with each other. Featuring yet another instance of a moody teenager going after a new family member to the unit essentially during the first half out into a long slew of repetitive and cliched scenes doing nothing of interest, which is another slight issue. It takes way too long for things to connect here and the film's use of these scenes is a part of that, as alongside the rather obvious budgetary limitations that arise here are the factors that hold this one down.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.
