A quartet of college kids - Marta, Pero, Norman and Will - go into the
woods to film a documentary about a remote village that fell victim to a
mysterious plague. Even on the way there, the kids start having ghostly apparitions. Eventually Pero finds a trinket, and since nobody has seen
her pick it up, she decides to keep it. The first night our heroes spend
in the woods though Marta disappears, and when she returns, she's in a
state of shock. The kids immediately return to the city and try to make
heads or tails of the whole story ... but all of them are haunted by
ghostly apparitions - apparitions that get so vivid that Will strangles
his girlfriend to death thinking she's a demon. When he drives the body
away to hide it, he himself is killed in a car accident ... Eventually,
Norman and Pero see a report on television that the corpse of Marta has
been found in the woods - but if she never left the woods, alive who is the girl in
the state of shock they took with them ... who else but a ghost. It's
only now that Pero confesses she has taken a trinket from the woods, and
now they race back to return it to its proper place ... but nevertheless,
they are both killed by the ghosts in the finale. What starts
out as a Blair Witch Project-style
shocker shot in an extremely moody looking stretch of forest quickly
becomes little more than your standard horror fare in which a very thin
story carried by bland characters serves as little more than a hanger for
an endless series of disappointingly similar shock scenes. There are a few
ok sequences in that one though, like when Will only slowly comes to the
realisation he has just died in an accident or when Norman and Pero are
killed off in the finale (even if the filmmakers exploit this scene for
more than its worth), but in all this is a rather pointless horror movie,
not despite but because of its (too) many shock scenes ...
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