I saw the preview for this during The Exorcist: Believer and was excited to see it. The preview looked scary and gave off vibes of The Descent, a favorite horror film.
The plot: Four twentysomethings set out to make a documentary on what happened to four teenage boys who disappeared ten years earlier while hiking through a local cave with a disturbing history.
The first half of this film plays like a dull true crime show on Investigation Discovery. Then we watch a lot of found footage of the obnoxious teens who disappeared ten years earlier. Found footage that gives way too much information to make one wonder why the police hadn't investigated the disappearance further.
Our documentary filmmakers find themselves in the cave hoping to summon spirits and find out what really happened to the boys so they can complete their project.
Will they meet the same fate? Will anyone care?
The film fails to create any tension. In addition,, the found footage angle has been done to death. The documentarians are flat characters and the filmmaker gives us no reason to care about them. There are some scary images and a couple of creepy moments but not nearly enough to compensate for the build up.
I couldn't wait for this to end and left genuinely disappointed as the film never lived up to the promise of the trailer.
The plot: Four twentysomethings set out to make a documentary on what happened to four teenage boys who disappeared ten years earlier while hiking through a local cave with a disturbing history.
The first half of this film plays like a dull true crime show on Investigation Discovery. Then we watch a lot of found footage of the obnoxious teens who disappeared ten years earlier. Found footage that gives way too much information to make one wonder why the police hadn't investigated the disappearance further.
Our documentary filmmakers find themselves in the cave hoping to summon spirits and find out what really happened to the boys so they can complete their project.
Will they meet the same fate? Will anyone care?
The film fails to create any tension. In addition,, the found footage angle has been done to death. The documentarians are flat characters and the filmmaker gives us no reason to care about them. There are some scary images and a couple of creepy moments but not nearly enough to compensate for the build up.
I couldn't wait for this to end and left genuinely disappointed as the film never lived up to the promise of the trailer.