- Directed by Braden Croft
- Written by Braden Croft
- Stars Shawn Roberts, Tyler Johnston, Emily Tennant
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 24 Minutes
- Watch it: https://amzn.to/4jROBOH
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWuNOKtXzg
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
It takes quite a while to get to the horror elements, but it’s well written with interesting characters in the meantime. A lot of the action is too dark for good visibility, but overall it’s a decent film.
Spoilery Synopsis
A man stops two women, a baby, and a child on the side of the road; he’s got a gun and wants their tickets. A woman takes little William and Baby Kris away from Janet. The woman and man take the two children, leaving Janet alone on the road, where something comes out of the woods and “gets” her. Credits roll.
We cut to a funeral. Brit comes to see Will, and they talk about Kris. The two brothers have obviously grown up. Olivia, their foster mother, died of a stroke and left a bunch of stuff in a box for the two boys. There’s a videotape, and they watch it that night.
Will talks about Googling Tendale, a town ten miles away, where the two boys’ parents are supposed to live. Kris thinks this is a joke. Brit says a road trip might be fun. They argue about it, but eventually, the road trip happens.
They head to the wooded community, and Kris buys a book about Bigfoot. They run into Emma, who owns the bed & breakfast they’re staying at. They talk to some of the other guests, Shanna and Wyatt, about bears and Bigfoot.
In the morning, their truck is dead and the videotape is missing. Emma points out that there are only about sixty people left in town, and there’s a good chance that at least one of them is related to the boys. Will tells Emma all about Kris and Brit.
Meanwhile, Kris and Brit knock on many doors and put up “Wanted Posters” with a picture of their parents. The townspeople are not cooperative. Will talks to Hank the barber, who has many questions about Will’s family. They also talk about wild men in the woods who wanted human sacrifices from the old-time natives.
That conversation leads to the three tourists buying hiking supplies and wandering off into the woods. Meanwhile, Emma talks to a man named Pete on the radio who seems to be involved in something secretive. They don’t find anything, and the two brothers start fighting again. This leads to Brit learning that Kris is hooked on Adderall.
In the middle of the night, Brit hears something knocking on the trees out in the woods. She wakes up Kris, but Will is nowhere to be seen. They find Will when he shoots something in the woods; it turns out to be Emma, who had followed them for some reason. Brit drives Emma back to town to find a hospital, leaving the brothers out in the woods. Emma says not to do that; “They kill me. They’ll kill you. There is no hospital.” They’re stopped by men who aren’t very helpful.
Will finds rocks with names painted on them, and one set of rocks has his parents’ names. He also finds the skull of something not human. He catches up to Kris, and the two then find Emma’s radio and talk to Pete by accident.
We cut to Pete, who has Wyatt, one of the tourists, chained to a tree in the woods. A monster comes out of the trees and kills him as Pete watches on closed-circuit TV.
Will and Kris find Brit’s deserted car, but not her or Emma. Meanwhile, Brit is chained to a tree in the woods just like Wyatt was. Pete talks to her about green tickets and people who bring more people to their town for sacrifice. The people who are sent to the town are usually allowed out, but this time, Emma got shot and screwed up. Only chosen people are usually sacrificed. Pete, Hank, and Curtis discuss the situation; they thought that Kris and Will were sent to them. Apparently, the gods offer tickets out of town with enough human sacrifices.
Will accidentally kills Hank and Curtis as well. Pete grabs Kris. Emma warns Will about the situation. Pete isn’t so easy, and soon Kris, Will, and Brit are all chained up together. Pete calls the monsters, but then they hear Emma talking to 911, calling them to the town.
The three victims release their chains from the tree and head to the truck, but run into Pete first. They grab Emma and some of the videotapes of the sacrifices as evidence. For some reason, the monsters then eat Pete.
Will runs into Bigfoot on the way out. Will sacrifices himself so that Kris and Brit can get away.
Kris talks to the police, and he shows them the skull. The sheriff says that Emma died. He also doesn’t believe any of their story since they came back without the videotapes. There’s a deputy on the scene, and that goes badly for him.
Brian’s Commentary
The characters are interesting and well-written, the acting is decent, but it takes a very long time to get to weirdness. Worse yet, most of the film takes place at night, in the dark woods, and we can’t really see what’s going on.
There was a lot of this story that I couldn’t understand or see, such as why it was filmed in the dark? Maybe we got a bad DVD, but I’m not convinced of that.
Kevin’s Commentary
This was my second viewing, and I don’t remember this being so dark for so much of it. Other than that, I thought it’s pretty cool and liked it. The basic idea, a group of people offering sacrifices to monsters to keep them appeased and get some blessings (or at least immunity) in return, isn’t a new idea, but they do it well here.
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