A rather random group of youngsters - tough but troubled Zosia (Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz), nerdy Julek (Michal Lupa), hottie Aniela (Wiktoria Gasiewska), macho Daniel (Sebastian Dela) and closet gay Bartek (Stanislaw Cywka) - are on an involuntary camping trip with their guide Iza (Gabriela Muskala) as part of a program to ween them off their electronic devices. Now of course, two of them, Aniela and Daniel, have sex by the nearby lake, and the next morning, Daniel is missing. The group decides to split up despite Julek's warnings not to (the genre-aware character being a staple of slashers since at least Scream) with Bartek and Aniela waiting by the campfire while Iza, Zosia and Julek spread out looking for him. They soon happen upon a cabin and find Daniel's dead body in the basement - when the cabin's tenant, a sort of overweight mutant (Michel Zbroja), arrives on the scene, gets his hands on Iza and tears her head off. Zosia and Julek just run until they're sure they've shaken the mutant. But of course, now they're lost in the woods, and just wandering aimlessly they happen upon an old man who gives them the mutant's back story: Once upon a time, there were young twins (Jakub and Filip Góralczuk) who just happened upon an alien egg - which transformed them into cannibalistic mutants who have apparently only today started roaming the woods.

Meanwhile, back at the camp, Aniela and Bartek have a good conversation where they bare their souls to one another - until Aniela is suddenly speared to death. Bartek runs and comes upon a church - where the priest (Piotr Cyrwus) is quick to tie him up to abuse him, but instead is killed by the mutant.

Zosia figures the only way to get out of this is to somehow get her hands on the cellphone dead Daniel has smuggled into the camp, but that means returning to the mutants' cabin and outsmarting them to be able to search Daniel's corpse for the phone - something that's much easier said than done ...

Basically, this film is slasher 101, it really has little to break the tried-and-true formula and doesn't even show the hint of an intention to, and even the few variations woven into the plot never detract too far from beaten paths, so one can basically guess not only who will survive but also the succession our heroes will die in. And unfortunately nothing is made out of the fact that they have to deal with not one but two killers. On the plus side, the film is very beautifully filmed and makes the most of its impressive backdrops, and the score is actually pretty awesome, and much more poignant than anything happening on screen. But that said, the film is also a bit over-long, and while some effort is put into giving our motley crew of protaginists actual backstories, many of them seem generic and could have done without, especially that the film at over 100 minutes, runs a bit stale the longer it goes. Now I'm not saying this is a trainwreck, but even within the forgiving slasher realm, it has room for improvement.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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