Over ten years ago, Dr. Nathan Marsh (Nathan Faudree) has taken a group of students (Kelly Ray Shelton, Nicole McFarland, Tony Urban, John Wisniewski) on a field trip where ... something must have happened, something that put Marsh into a catatonic state. Now he has awakened, and things get weird at the asylum he was locked away at, something that affects all the other inmates of the asylum - a development so worrying that the asylum's head Sister Margaret (Leila Dean) sees it fit to ask Marsh's former doctor Catherine (Katie Gibson) for assistance. And Catherine soon learns about a videotape shot back during the field trip, and she decides to watch it together with Marsh for some answers. Basically the field trip led to a circle in the woods that is one of the 26 entry points into another realm, hell or something like it. And Marsh is convinced he can open it, though not even his students thought there's a chance. However he did disappear, and did return a changed man. But what's even more worrying is that watching the video has re-opened the portal, and has released a terrible monster onto earth ...

Site 13 actually started life back in 2003 as a mostly improvised film directed by Tony Urban, a project that was abandoned eventually, and more or less forgotten - by all but lead Nathan Faudree who only years later had an idea how to put the already existing footage into a greater context, also by ditching the found footage approach and give it an H.P. Lovecraft vibe. And with the storytelling and editing skills of Alan Rowe Kelly the film has eventually turned into what it is today.

... and the result is actually quite fascinating, as the different approaches to storytelling, the different aesthetics and really the different styles in the old and new footage clash in a way that makes them feel like one, and the idea to let the old and new footage work parallel to each other and interact with one another is quite captivating while letting the story flow very nicely, with many twists and surprises, and carried by some solid performances. And this all results in a pretty good genre piece, actually.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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