Erin (Heather Dicke) takes her boyfriend Brian (James Pike), a typical
cityboy, on a camping trip to Lamplight Woods, a remote area her dad took
her to regularly when she was a child. It's called Lamplight Woods because
if one gets lost at night, one will eventually see a light, as if from a
gaslamp. Now naturally, one will feel drawn to it - but this usually
doesn't end happily. Of course, as long as one has a light, even a
flashlight or something, one has nothing to fear, and hey, Erin has a
flashlight ... At night, Brian finds Erin gone, and so is the
flashlight. The only lightsource he has got with him now to go and find
Erin is the lamp on her video camera - and that one keeps failing ... A
found footage shocker, stripped to the bones: It's got an urban (or is
that rural?) legend, creepy locations, and a good narrative excuse for the
constant use of the first person video camera-perspective - but what's
important here, the film works, because it doesn't waste its time on
convoluted explanations confusing storytelling, repetitive shocks or the
like but gets its story across in a creepy quarter of an hour. And after
all the bad that's been done to the found footage genre, that's quite an
accomplishment. Recommended. By the way, part of Hillbilly
Horror Show - Episode 3.
|