YellowBrickRoad

2010 "They went looking for evil in the forest but the forest found evil in them"
4.7| 1h39m| R| en
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In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.

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Also starring Michael Laurino

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Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
clareparkinson788 The movie is about a group of people who walk a trail and go missing, so another group of people walk the trail to find out what happened. Pretty simple plot. However despite the movie being laid out as a horror, there really is no narrative. No story line as such. It is more a metaphorical look at how we constantly strive to reach the unattainable. There is not a lot of focus on the script, instead the score provides more insight into what the characters are going through and it works well. I had a hard time rating this movie, I really loved what they were trying to do but I felt it was missing a little something. Perhaps because the ending felt a little unrewarding. Definitely worth the watch if you like something a little different, but not for everybody.
thekarmicnomad I am sure I am going to get flak for this, but I liked this movie.I picked it up on Netflix meaning my expectations were quite low. As a cheeky little horror this did OK.In the 1930's the entire population of a small town in 'no-where' USA took a walk down an isolated mountain trail and didn't come back. No one ever found them. A documentary crew decide to see if they can find what happened to them.Anyone who has ever seen a horror movie will not be overly surprised what occurs next. The cast is good, the tension is cranked up notch by notch. The film uses some very effective devices so - when it all hits the fan and they realise they are dealing with more than an angry bear - the movie stays grounded. I did find this scary in places, the desolate, wide open trails and shadowy, densely packed woodlands become lonely and menacing.The production runs hot and cold. There is one shot with some extremely amateur effects that destroys the film, and could have been better handled left off screen. Yet a sequence depicting the characters being hit by sonic blasts is very effective and harrowing.The ending is a bit ambiguous. In all, not super, but for a Netflix movie I quite liked it.
aborup-563-865454 No way this is near 10. This look like a movie shot in the middle of nowhere, in 20 days, starring people who had no sleep!some might mistake this, as being a clever "feel bad movie". Well it's not. It's just a crappy movie. some thin story about a village and nothing else. no real story, no sub-story and no ending.As said, OK in the beginning but slowly it turns to nothing. random actions. it is like they just made something up along the way. and no clues, hints, signs on whats going on. nothing to trigger your imagination, only void and wtf... leave it...
Tss5078 The only thing disturbing about this movie is that someone actually agreed to make it. I understand that it's an independent film, written, directed, and starring first timers, but anyone who read this script had to have known it just wouldn't work! Don't get me wrong, the story they had was extremely solid, and they could have taken it in a million different directions, any other direction than the one they took. The story starts 70 years ago, when an entire town randomly decides to follow a path into the woods and are never heard from again. The FBI investigated, covered up whatever they found, and kept the whole area off limits, until a random group of people decide to investigate for themselves and write a book about their experiences. First of all, this group of people have no connection to the town, people, or even each other, so why do this? Second, for 70 years the FBI has kept the area off limits to everyone, so what makes this group so special? These idiots march into the woods and the only thing they find is music playing, music that gets progressively louder until it drives them insane. The music is from the Wizard of Oz, but the producers were too cheap to buy the rights to the music from the Wizard of Oz, so it's very similar melodies with different words that nearly drove me to insanity. These idiots romp through the woods makes the Blair Witch Project look like an Oscar worthy film by comparison. It's a lot of talking, and crying, and yelling, that leads to an ending that is by far one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. The ending is the strangest part of all, in that it builds up and plays like it's some huge twist, which maybe it would have been had it made any sense at all. The acting was terrible, the direction was all over the place, and the film destroys the story worst than Paula Deen destroyed her career. This is one film you should absolutely avoid!