"Leave nothing but footprints. Take nothing but memories. Kill nothing but time."
A rookie park ranger on a missing persons investigation in a creepy forest turns into a psychological horror with a Twin Peaks vibe. The setup made me think of Loop Track (2023) and The Forest (2016). Beautiful forest landscapes, nicely shot and edited, atmospheric and the lead actress is a good one. Liked her character, she never strays away from doing her job to help others which is commendable and she's easy to root for. The scenes in the dark are suspenceful and creepy but i'm let down there were no real scares. The last 30-40 minutes are a series of trippy fever dream sequences and I dug it, sorta—some fairly captivating and disturbing moments. It still feels like something's missing though, like there was no payoff and the reveal was lackluster.
Good performances, visuals, sounds but could have relied less on the dream sequence and shock tropes. Not bad but becomes meandering and ending is inconsistent and becomes sorta meh.
It definitely had it's creepy moments. There is just something about camping in the backcountry that is creepy.
Shout by ErebosBlockedParentSpoilers2024-03-10T14:09:13Z
I didn't understand the point it was trying to make with Lennon's arc.
So, according to the delusion, if you save a missing person, you eventually become psychotic and go missing yourself, because "a body is owed". So, rangers "learned" to become apathetic towards missing person reports, in fear of getting lost themselves? Is that why Lennon left the last missing person alone? Kind of a depressing end, without any payoff, after all of her psychological traumas that were surfaced.
Is the movie supposed to be a call for help, to raise awareness on the mental issues caused by social isolation that rangers have to deal with?
Some scenes at the 1-hour mark felt like they were ripped right out of Hideo Kojima's P.T. :sweat_smile:
I think it over-relied on the hallucinations/flashbacks to show her backstory, over her acting. IMO the wrong way to do "show; don't tell".