Starts strong but falls apart
Yes I guess the fact that a film with only 2 people wandering around in an occasionally supernatural woods can't sustain interest for a full feature, it should have been shorter, but the first 3rd of the film is very strong and moody, then it just turns into long long set piece scenes, 2 of which are mostly just blackness with noises, neither of which work. The ending isn't totally grim but doesn't make sense. It seems in the last half of the movie they are pretty much just making it up as they go along. There is a needless element of the husband recording stuff on his videocamera for a bit that isn't needed and I have to say, really, at this point we still have to do Blair Witch. Digital effects are mostly pretty poor and that hurts as the film builds up effect mood only for some of the pay offs to be mediocre CG. Music score doesn't help much, but some great locations do! There just isn't enough here ultimately to keep you going for this long. The wife's story goes especially wrong almost comically so.
- HEFILM
- May 6, 2025