#MissingCouple

A fairly dreadful first-person shooter involving all the very worst tropes of the genre: long stretches of people just living their lives, lead characters are inane and annoying social media “influencers”, the ever-present people still filming while they run for their lives (of course), and showing “scary” things without even ever bothering so much as an attempt to explain what is actually happening or why.

A young “influencer” couple buys remote land in the south to live off the land. Pretty soon they find bullets buried where they planted their garden, cameras pick up mysterious black-clad figures who prowl around the house and the property, shine floodlights at them, burn photos of them, and chase them into the woods. And that’s it. I found myself thinking something I’ve never thought before: “Why don’t they just get a gun?” Trail cameras reveal the figures move with supernatural speed. What are they? Who are they? I guess it doesn’t matter, they’re just “scary”. At any rate, nothing is ever explained, it all just sort of happens and that’s it.

The one slight good thing I can say about this film is that it incorporates a followup from another “influencer” trying to find what happened to them, and they intersperse the “stories” (such as they are) of the original couple and the “investigator” in such a way that by the time either starts to get too tedious, they cut to the other, a rare smart move for one of these kinds of movies. Ultimately, through trail cameras, we see the “investigator” chased into a pool in the woods by the figures, who then follow them into the pool, and then, as with the original couple, we never see or are told what happened.