Director: Jeremy Schuetze
Year: 2026
Country: Canada
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Plot:
Taking a new film role, a woman joins others on a remote film shoot with a controversial director on his latest horror film in the mountains, but as the shoot goes on, the director’s increasingly unhinged behavior and the stressed nature of the shoot itself bring out their darker aspects.
Review:
Overall, this was a disappointing enough effort. Among the few likable features here are the atmospheric touches present involving being out in the wilderness away from everyone as the situation starts getting unhinged. The group going out into the wilderness and attempting to film the unreleased parts of a controversial director’s final film manages to set this one up to be a potentially chilling idea when the group starts to realize that there’s something unnatural coming for them with the strange events they experience while filming, even with that rendered obsolete by the ending reveal taking everything away but it remains quite impactful in the moment. With this also providing one of the more intriguing reasons for keeping the camera going, as the concept of the film being made is handled in the same concept as the main film itself, these make for some likable enough factors here.
There are some big detrimental factors within here. The biggest drawback with the film is the familiar storyline that provides no real surprise or suspense by going through the woods and not making any change to the formula. The low-budget film being shot here and the different hurdles and obstacles being presented here really aren’t that different from scores of other films that are utilized in this style, making this feel far more familiar and underwhelming than it should, with the majority of this one going for a lame making-a-cursed-movie approach as things start to go wrong. It’s all too formulaic and not that interesting with the way it tries to present the early scenes here as unexpected shenanigans designed to get genuine reactions out of people, yet hardly any of them are all that terrifying or original, causing this to be frustrating more than scary. It’s the main factor here to bring this one down.
Overview: */5
An overall underwhelming found-footage thriller, there are quite a lot of issues with this one that keep it down against the few positive factors that are featured here. Those with an interest in this kind of genre fare or who are the most ardent fans of found-footage features will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed outright caution.
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