warrenfilmfan
I settled in hoping to watch a soulful indie thriller and instead wasted an hour and a half of my life. With films like this you win some and lose some and wow, man, this one was a stinker.Guy & girl run off into the snow-covered mountains for a weekend of raw, rugged, beautiful nature even though they're outdoorsy-deficient. While shooting through the back-country on their very first snowmobile, off-trail and miles from civilization, Guy spots someone creepily standing in a clearing and is spooked enough that he crashes their only motorized way out.Girl is entirely unlikeable. As in, strangle-her-in-her-sleep unlikeable. And, once the creepiness begins and the baddies begin invading the couple's campsite, Guy irrationally runs off to be a hero, never to return. We're left with unlikeable Girl, for the rest of the film, being dimwitted and insufferable and, again, unlikeable. The baddies keep coming, there are a few jump scares, Girl gives about zero thought or effort to manning up and saving herself by fighting back against the baddies, and she fails to conclude that humping her way over the terrain to get home would be smart. Until she does decide to hump her way out, which leads to the film taking nonsensical turns until the end, when she finds out that - boom, in a schlocky twist I'd expect from an M. Night Shyamalan snoozer - the snowmobile crash ended up killing them both and the baddie is actually her guide to heaven. See, he's been following Girl until she came to terms with the accident and death, and once she agrees to go with him he'll lead her out of what is essentially a purgatory. And he's not actually the baddie, the baddie is the devil. Or something.So, here are my questions:1) If Girl was having doubts about the relationship, a burden she was so willing to unload on Guy in a bitchy bit of dialogue when things started getting rough, why would she agree to participate in what surely would be a difficult, stressful and uncomfortable weekend in the middle of nowhere, snowed into a small tent, with Guy she's pretty sure she wants to dump?2) So, baddie-turned-spirit-guide can cause the accident that killed the couple, but he can't get them to heaven unless they choose, under their own free will, to go with him? So... Wait... He's powerful enough to kill but not powerful enough to do his job which is "saving" people?3) Who heads off into the middle of nowhere, in winter, with just enough food to last a few days under the best possible circumstances?4) Why does the spirit guide think that silently staring at the couple from behind the trees is a good thing? You would think, in his heavenly wisdom, he'd realize that it would actually creep people out.5) How does Girl spend the entire movie crying, streaks of mascara and all, while never showering - you know, wilderness and all - and yet her makeup looks professionally applied in every new scene?6) Why doesn't spirit guide intervene when the devil terrorizes Girl night after night? Is he powerless to intervene? But wait, he isn't powerless to causing gruesome, deadly accidents.I think there were a few good ideas in this film, but I'm positive the writer/director would never stumble upon them on his own. He needs an editor - and if he has an editor, he should be fired immediately.
illumiinati
Interesting premise and a one liner story stretched into 1.5 hours of annoying movie.Honestly what were the makers thinking when they made this one? This has to be one of the most purposeless movies ever made. I m a big thriller/horror fan. But the intended thrills here were plain irritating.****SPOILERS AHEAD***A pregnant girl and her boyfriend's adventurous camping trip in snow goes awry when they meet a snowmobile accident. The boyfriend goes missing and the girl makes very lame attempts at getting out of the situation. Strange things keep happening. A mysterious gunman keeps appearing at random and doesn't say a word. Adding to your annoyance and making you hate this movie even more. The performances are in sync with the movie, BAD!!The "supposed" suspense/twist in the climax is plain lame. Avoid this one at all costs.
Robert W.
I broke my own imposed rule yet again and decided to give this low budget indie "horror" flick a try. Thank goodness, I'm not disappointed that I did. It certainly didn't blow me away by any means but it also wasn't horrendous and that's a big achievement with indie horror nowadays. The film's sole issue is how it drags. It is excruciatingly long and doesn't have enough depth or material to captivate you for the hour and a half. As a short film or a half hour episode of Twilight Zone, this would have been terrific but it really struggles to make itself feature length unfortunately. The good news is that the performances in the film are decent and the movie is appropriately bizarre enough to keep fans of the genre happy. It is clear that everyone involved really did try hard and they deserve mention for that. As with any good, bizarre horror flick there is a twist to the whole mystery and it unfolds quickly towards the end. The "twist" ending is very stereotypical, we've seen it a thousand times but it works for the film and it wasn't disappointing per se. Its a decent low budget thriller that won't blow you away but it also is decently made and not a mess.As with any indie thriller the cast tends to be very small and is with this one. Seth David Mitchell and Brit Morgan both do a very good job as the young couple gone camping for the weekend. Morgan ends up being our "scream queen" and focus of the latter half of the film and she actually does a decent job of keeping the action going. She is a good scream queen and her charisma on screen keeps the story rolling. Noah Segan is really the only other role that gets more than thirty seconds and he's decent though it isn't exactly a hard role to capture. Its bare bones at best.Andrew Hyatt is our writer and director and he is mostly an exception to my rule. That rule is when indie writers direct their own stuff...its almost always crap. This isn't crap. Again, I reiterate it isn't amazing and its excruciatingly slow but I give it honourable mention for not being crap. There are even a couple of genuinely well done and very creepy scenes. He uses his low budget very well and shoots from certain camera angles to emphasize the creep factor. So I'm not raving about this film, but you have to understand when you watch as many really terrible low budget horror flicks as I have you tend to see a 6/10 as a really great feat for something like this. Check it out for something a little different and see that it can be done right. 6/10
J D
Things were going okay until the first line of dialogue was spoken. It's all downhill from there. The acting is sub-par, with the male lead far worse than the female. Both characters are unlikable and don't have any redeeming qualities that would make you root for them. There's obviously some sort of rift between the two, as they seem to have quite the disdain for each other, this especially shows from the woman.They go into the snow packed wilderness horribly unprepared. After a snow mobile accident, they begin to see strange silent figures in the woods. The boyfriend investigates one night and disappears. The next hour is filled with a mentally draining bore of sequence after sequence of the woman brooding about, which always ends up with her back at the damn tent. This repeats itself a good dozen times it feels...before it all unravels into weird scenes from some campy slasher flick. Then it turns out she's been dead the whole time or something... my brain was fried at this point and I wasn't paying much attention.I truly thank Netflix for adding this to their selection, and I only blame myself, and my two other family members that agreed upon this turd of a movie.
