A group of teens become trapped by a crazy woman in the woods in New England and there is an old abandoned mine involved. That's it.
The film takes 30 minutes to introduce and build the character of six teens fairy equally so there is no determining who could be the "final girl" from the intro, although my bet would be Trixie. The six kids follow tracks they believe belong to some pedophile who took a kid. I am not sure why they just didn't contact the police, they had smart phones, but they didn't. The feature weighs in at 64 minutes and they had to extend scenes, like the frozen pond crossing, to get that. The escape music soundtrack was irritating.
The film was very low budget and could have used some better framing and sound equipment, but I have seen a lot worse. The group who made the film all appeared to be family and friends in real life which made the relationships look realistic and comfortable. The dialogue was fair and I loved the very last line of the film by the woman walking her dog...that was worth an extra star. The film was uneven, needing polish. There was an odd scene with Trixie. Was she raped? It reminded me of the scene from "The Gamesters of Triskelion" where some Neanderthal thrall is placed in a cage with Uhura and walks toward her and then? Commercial break while Shatner gives it to the mentally challenged Angelique Pettyjohn thrall. There are laws against that in most states.
Hopefully writer/director Michael Hull can get some decent funding for his next endeavor. "They are mine" is sort of a pun involving the kids and the mine...BTW. I liked the simple poetry. Next time make the mine longer than 10 feet and the film more than an hour and call it "The Devil's Highway." Title puns were put to death by Joan of Arcadia.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Some blood and killing.
The film takes 30 minutes to introduce and build the character of six teens fairy equally so there is no determining who could be the "final girl" from the intro, although my bet would be Trixie. The six kids follow tracks they believe belong to some pedophile who took a kid. I am not sure why they just didn't contact the police, they had smart phones, but they didn't. The feature weighs in at 64 minutes and they had to extend scenes, like the frozen pond crossing, to get that. The escape music soundtrack was irritating.
The film was very low budget and could have used some better framing and sound equipment, but I have seen a lot worse. The group who made the film all appeared to be family and friends in real life which made the relationships look realistic and comfortable. The dialogue was fair and I loved the very last line of the film by the woman walking her dog...that was worth an extra star. The film was uneven, needing polish. There was an odd scene with Trixie. Was she raped? It reminded me of the scene from "The Gamesters of Triskelion" where some Neanderthal thrall is placed in a cage with Uhura and walks toward her and then? Commercial break while Shatner gives it to the mentally challenged Angelique Pettyjohn thrall. There are laws against that in most states.
Hopefully writer/director Michael Hull can get some decent funding for his next endeavor. "They are mine" is sort of a pun involving the kids and the mine...BTW. I liked the simple poetry. Next time make the mine longer than 10 feet and the film more than an hour and call it "The Devil's Highway." Title puns were put to death by Joan of Arcadia.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Some blood and killing.