![]() ![]() It’s really effective and draws one into the world’s mythology right out of the gangrenous gate!Ī lot of the scares and unease come from the heavy lifting of the film’s sound department headed by sound designer Daniel Brennan (along with Mitton), a talented mother fucker through and through, who creates here a sonic hell-scape that is simply dizzying in the best possible way! This is also aided and abetted by the newsreel-like footage that begins the film, and purports to contain images of the carnage as well as audio testimony of the same. The end result of all that verbiage back there is that those wonderful cats immerse the audience into the characters plight hardcore, and it’s easy to feel balls-deep (professional reviewer term) in the action as our protagonists begin to go absolutely, stark ravin’, ape shit. Writer/directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton deliver a ton of atmosphere and palpable dread with simple techniques that yield amazingly effective results. Part straight ahead fright flick, part “found footage” mockumentary, YellowBrickRoad is some quality horror biz through and through, and yours cruelly lapped this sinister shit up with wild abandon! Speaking of those folks, as the (seemingly endless) “road” goes on and ever fuckin’ on, they find themselves more removed from civilization (no matter how un-civil it may be) and begin to encounter more and more dread happenings, including music from decades past issuing constantly from the green hell around them that begins to set ye olde nerves on edge to say the least, and an evil hat (more effective than you may think).Īs you may surmise, things go shockingly, horribly south from there and our heroes soon find themselves at the mercy of whatever it is that haunts that trail! Once there they encounter un-cooperative townies (minus one loquacious lass who actually provides some info) before trekking off on the same path as the citizens of yore. They bring a rad-ass lil’ land rover/dune buggy thing with them too if you are keeping score at home… which you lot never are… One fine morning back in 1940, the citizens of Friar, New Hampshire walked into the wilderness, en masse, and got their asses slaughtered (minus one “lucky” fellow) by who the piss knows what on a trail named Yellow-brick Road.įlash forward to the amazing future year of 2008 and enter Teddy Barnes (Michael Laurino) who just so happens to be the leader of a group of adventurous sorts who trek off to that rural town in search of answers to the distant tragedy.
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