YellowBrickRoad (2010) (Review)

YellowBrickRoad (2010) Quite a gripping horror film. Maybe not from the first few seconds, but as soon as the expedition takes shape and begins, it’s pretty interesting. For me, it’s a film that I’d compare to the first Blair Witch, but which doesn’t use found footage (which I stopped supporting a long time ago!).Blair Witch was good, it was the first of its kind (or the most memorable, I don’t really know), but seeing a film about a group of people who get lost in the forest filmed in the traditional way is really good.All the actors are decent, the crew are nice. It’s mainly because of Anessa Ramsey (who I loved in “Rites of Spring”) that I watched it. She also co-produced the film, unless I’m mistaken. OK, I’ll admit that the further along you go, the less fun it gets. But that’s normal! Because I can absolutely understand why people don’t believe in legends or aren’t superstitious. But if you’ve got nothing else to do with your life but tempt the devil, you shouldn’t mope about the result. In this case, this group of people, each with their own speciality, are going to follow a path where many people have already disappeared. They want to solve the mystery. And if anything happens to them, they have no one to blame but themselves. There are some deliberately unbearable moments. It’s clear that this is the director’s intention and not a lack of knowledge, as can be seen elsewhere. The ending ends more or less logically, as you’d expect.Except that there’s a surreal last scene, which is very artistic, but totally illogical. And the delirium didn’t go all the way. It’s a shame! You can’t do things by halves. If you decide to go down a certain road, you have to face up to it. Having said that, you never know whether the disappearances and legends are still due to extraterrestrials, CIA experiments, ghosts coming back or whether it’s just another thing. There are mysteries that cannot be unravelled.So we have to accept that there are answers that we will probably never get. I’d like to close by saying that I also love non-horror films. A film like “The Way” is not only a masterpiece, but it reminds us that we can also create stories of friendship that end well. You don’t have to create only stories where everyone dies in turn, as in most horror films, where only one survivor is left.

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