YellowBrickRoad-- one of the better horror movies I've seen in a while. Similiar in theme with Blair Witch Project, but also different too. The ending is as icy as they come.
Also, dont listen to the bad reviews of this film, they totally miss the boat.. The increasingly disorienting, vague aspects are to me plusses, not minuses to the film's overall effect. Basically every negative review includes some comment along these lines: 'the lighting was bad, the movie dragged, and the ending was vague, and the first kill was ridiculous'. Wrong! The atmosphere of this movie never fucking lets up, just keeps escalating the fear, disorientation, confusion, fucked up psychology, a beautifully portrayed unraveling of sanity. Some of the special fx were a little off or cheesy, but didn't detract too much.
So if you require your horror movies to absolutely make sense, have at least one survivor in the end make it back to 'comfortable reality', need cats or bad guys jumping out of dark closets every 5.5 minutes, need everything about the horror construct explained, you probably won't enjoy it. The worst thing that can be said about the movie is it IS derivative, the plot is not all that original and borrows a lot of themes from Session 9 and Blair Witch Project, but succeeds in my view on the unrelenting build of atmophere, and the total physical and psychological breakdown of the team sent out to explore the woods.
It also borrows a bit from M. Night Shamalot's, The Happening, which happens to be one of the worst horror movies ever made.
