2/10
Bait and switch
14 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Billed as a horror film, with the preview suggesting a haunted forest type of story. That is NOT what you'll find here

It's extremely low budget but I'm not downgrading for that. In general they had all the pieces for a fine movie.

I do downgrade when characters do things that are stupid and unbelievable, and fully 25% of the small cast do unbelievable things with every action they take.

Begin mild spoilers

A group of six separate from a larger group when food gets scarce, and go over seas allegedly looking for original home of one of the group. They land in Scotland, find no crops and no hunting and decide to stay.

They encounter an apex predator and get really certain they want to stay.

I haven't even gotten to the unbelievable stuff. And I won't, as I don't want to do major spoilers

Kudos are necessary though to the linguist. Taking the dialogue and translating it to an artificial language was very slick and made the cornerstone if what could have been a brilliant movie.
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