This horror film opens up like many horror films: it shows the dangers of people being killed by a menacing person(s) and or creature. Will the American Horror genre ever get past that superfluous cliché? I highly doubt it. Then it opens up to the main character(s): the loner, the teenage kids looking for fun, the dysfunctional family etc., and this film focuses on pretty much all three. So, two girls and a guy go out to find a treasure of marijuana to have better lives, or smoke it, or...who cares? Oh, did I mention the 'bad guys' are ghosts (or what not) of Native tribes in Alaska? Oh, wait...gods? demons? Doesn't matter: they're the bad guys, right? And Marcus the racist (who likes to kidnap Natives and degrade them down to nothing) and his two girl pals are the good guys. The Native tribes thing has been done. It's like watching one of those old Westerns about Cowboys and Indians and the Indians are always the bad guys; if one's sole goal is to watch a horror film (at least an American one) for blood & guts then movies like this will take plot and semblance and just water them down to utter trash.
This is a well shot film. Direction's good, photography, acting's pretty good (except for Jared Cohn whose lines are constant words of profanity; he says f--- at least ten times per sentence, or the very least: it seems that way); the script writing is mildly okay...what it is is the cliché story. The stereotypes of white trash people and Native tribes and combining them into this trite. And it is trite (meaning: lacking something new and refreshing; i.e. unoriginal.)
While I watched the whole film, it ended for me 35 minutes and 36 seconds in; which is probably the only thing redeemable for me.
This is a well shot film. Direction's good, photography, acting's pretty good (except for Jared Cohn whose lines are constant words of profanity; he says f--- at least ten times per sentence, or the very least: it seems that way); the script writing is mildly okay...what it is is the cliché story. The stereotypes of white trash people and Native tribes and combining them into this trite. And it is trite (meaning: lacking something new and refreshing; i.e. unoriginal.)
While I watched the whole film, it ended for me 35 minutes and 36 seconds in; which is probably the only thing redeemable for me.