"YellowBrickRoad": Small indie horror yields clever plot . . .

Posted by mr grits on October 29, 2011 at 22:29:26

In 1940 the good people of Friar, NH, dropped everything and suddenly walked into the thick forest just outside town. Very little was known of it and few facts were collected as the one survivor seemed quite insane.

Now comes a few people who knew the story and had written a short inconclusive book on the subject due to lack of solid evidence. One of them had been notified that all records (after 70 years) would be turned over to them. This sparked a new, brave foray into the forest to follow the Yellow Brick Road (as named by survivors of the missing.

The beginning of this film has "Blair Witch" stamped all over it. I rolled my eyes when one member of the party began taping other members asking them base questions to see if their mental state was changing. For the first 20 minutes or so I regretted checking this out from Netflix until the music started. Music in the forest with almost no identifiable direction. It was day three and things were about to unravel with the music getting louder--then stopping--then starting erratically as they went even deeper into the forest. With GPS gone crazy, compass a-spinning, the sextant was giving bad readings, and the math of the journey only added up correctly when going forward hopelessness began to set in.

Soon madness breaks as one male attacks a female savagely killing her with a knife. After subduing him morale begins to break down and the party splits each going on its own path....

This was a cut above what it appeared to be in the beginning. We see all the distinct personalities slowly disintegrate creating turmoil and violence that leads to death and abandonment. For a "small film" the performers did great jobs bringing life to the time honored lost-in-the-woods genre we seen plenty of times before.

Watch with patience and be pleasantly surprised.

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Topic - "YellowBrickRoad": Small indie horror yields clever plot . . . - mr grits 22:29:26 10/29/11 (0)

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