Hikers head into the woods and end up in a weird loop of events.
This is not a time loop sort of film but something else entirely. It's a replaying of events and varations and... I really can't explain it simply.
What I can explain simply is that I am torn about this film . The images are truly spectacular, this maybe the best looking horror film I've seen this year. There are moments and sequences that are truly chilling. This film has some images that are now burned into my brain
On the other hand the narrative and its looping story telling never really comes together. This is always a danger with films that loop, and its a danger most films of this sort fall into. I know that some times with films from outside of the US the narrative is not rigidly controlled, and in most cases it works, but the looping, time shifting, weirdness here keeps the film from truly working. Yes by the time the film ended I knew what was going on, but at the same time I was never connected. Intellectually I knew what happened, but emotionally I felt nothing.
I don't hate this film, I just wish the great visuals and moments had a better narrative thread to hang off of.
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