Warning: complete and total spoilers ahead.
This movie starts off well with four guys who decide to go on a hiking trip. After one of them gets killed at the beginning of the movie in a liquor store, it supposedly adds weight to their trip, giving it more meaning.
In the end, the only thing this movie winds up being about is a group of people in the forest (not the four hikers) who offer humans as sacrifices to a creature that keeps them alive forever, so long as they worship it. The presence of this creature causes psychological effects / visions / dreams on the part of the four hikers throughout the movie.
Through frequent flashbacks blurred with forest reality, the movie attempts to tie the violence in the liquor store with a monster that stalks them through the woods (and kills 3 out of 4 by the end.) But ultimately the creature has no meaning -- not related to anything that happened with the first guy's death -- not to anything at all, really.
Do you think this review is pointless? Then you get a taste for exactly how generic and pointless this movie's plot was.
This movie starts off well with four guys who decide to go on a hiking trip. After one of them gets killed at the beginning of the movie in a liquor store, it supposedly adds weight to their trip, giving it more meaning.
In the end, the only thing this movie winds up being about is a group of people in the forest (not the four hikers) who offer humans as sacrifices to a creature that keeps them alive forever, so long as they worship it. The presence of this creature causes psychological effects / visions / dreams on the part of the four hikers throughout the movie.
Through frequent flashbacks blurred with forest reality, the movie attempts to tie the violence in the liquor store with a monster that stalks them through the woods (and kills 3 out of 4 by the end.) But ultimately the creature has no meaning -- not related to anything that happened with the first guy's death -- not to anything at all, really.
Do you think this review is pointless? Then you get a taste for exactly how generic and pointless this movie's plot was.