In
The Blair Witch Project fashion, a motley crew set out into eerie backwoods to try to get to the heart of a local mystery. This time it's not a witch legend but an entire 572 locals who walked off one day in 1940 and disappeared off the face of the Earth, and the seekers aren't film students but have pretensions of being scientific investigators. Nevertheless, the influence of the 1999 zero-budget hit is blatant. Unexplained noises emanate from the woods, a hallucinatory atmosphere takes over and members of the party soon starts to get unhinged.
It's not actually as inept as such a summary dismissal may indicate, just badly in need of its very own ideas. The very last scene seems to belong to another film altogether, being the stuff of real nightmare, and makes you wonder what might have been done with a tad more inspiration.
4/10
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