Director: Markian Tarasiuk
Year: 2026
Country: Canada
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Plot:
Gathering a local film crew, a woman decides to look into a cold case involving her brother’s disappearance over twenty years earlier that has never been solved, and the more they look into the strange events surrounding the situation, they learn it’s more than a simple disappearance.
Review:
Overall, this was a wholly disappointing and barely worthwhile genre effort. That is immensely disappointing due to the strong starting point present in this one, where the opening hook and central investigation come across rather nicely. With her look into the cold-case file regarding her brother’s disappearance several decades earlier and what that serves towards how she goes about looking into the tangled history of the case, where everything tends to disappear at odd points or just not make any sense whatsoever, this sets the film’s central case going rather nicely. The more she looks into the history of the case, talking with those who can help her decode what’s going on, as she comes to believe that something has happened, turns this into a strong setup for the finale, where everything comes together to provide some immensely chilling ideas here involving the search out in the wilderness to figure out what’s going on.
However, while this works together nicely enough, these factors are pretty much wiped away by the outright sluggish and just plain terrible pace, where so much of what’s going on here is just not interesting to see play out. There’s hardly anything going on in the first hour here that gets any kind of interest going for this one, featuring nothing but talking heads going over the original disappearance and trying to talk about her life with her brother, that spurns on the investigation in the first place, which provides this with an immensely dull and uninteresting payoff where everything is just excruciatingly bland over and over again. The other big issue here is the sense of coming to the woods trying to find their answer in the woods, which makes no sense, as the whole thing has little setup or connection to the location, which renders everything feeling quite bizarre. These do manage to bring this down quite heavily.
Overview: *.5/5
A disjointed take on the genre, this one has some potential involved in here, but it has more than enough disappointing elements that it doesn’t go further in the genre than it does. Those with an appreciation for this style or who are hardcore found-footage fans will have the most to like here, while most others out there turned off by the negatives will want to heed extreme caution.
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