IMDb plot summary: Friends hiking the Appalachian Trail are confronted by 'The Foundation', a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.
Directed by Mike P. Nelson. Starring Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Bill Sage, and Emma Dumont.
For most of this movie, I was kind of rolling my eyes. It's cheesy and jump-scare-y and it's got so many gory shots that seem gratuitous. I'm not terribly squeamish, but some of these smushed-head images were really tough to look at it. And then the movie takes an interesting left turn in the final thirty minutes and an even more interesting one in the final thirty seconds, during which the ending of the story plays out *while* the credits roll. And not epilogue stuff, this is like... the climactic scene of the movie happens with credits scrolling past. I found myself, to my completely surprised, very moved by this. It takes the over-the-top scenario we've been presented with this whole story and suddenly, unexpectedly, highlights how awful this would be. It's still not a great movie, but it jumps itself up a half star or so with such a strong ending.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Wrong Turn > Dark and Stormy Night
Wrong Turn < Woman in the Dunes
Wrong Turn < Talk Radio
Wrong Turn < Scrooge
Wrong Turn < The Dissident
Wrong Turn < Julie & Julia
Wrong Turn > King Kong Escapes
Wrong Turn < Charulata
Wrong Turn > Neighbors
Wrong Turn < Bad Education
Wrong Turn < The Last Dragon
Wrong Turn < The Anderson Tapes
Final spot: #1685 out of 3437, or 51%.
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