A group of friends get stranded at a remote cabin and find nobody there, but evidence of people having picked up and left in the middle of activities. One by one, they disappear.
The production values are good, and ratchets up the tensions well enough to be a little engaging. But it’s very, very badly flawed—aside from two-dimensional characters, more importantly it basically has only a premise, not an actual plot… it’s one idea, and never developed beyond showing you that idea. It never bothers to explain what’s going on, and additionally includes a lot of inconsistencies and points that are brought up and then never explained, or sometimes ever even mentioned again. The character motivations are all over the place… for instance, a man who brought his fiancee to ask her to marry him has sex with his ex almost immediately after she suddenly disappears, for no other apparent reason than to provide an obligatory sex scene. A man produces a gun halfway through to introduce an obligatory violent threat, and one person spends one scene trying to pass the time by seducing someone by initiating a game of strip poken and the very next turning into a religious zealot preaching that the disappearances must be god’s vengeance against them for sinning, for more cheap dramatic tension, I guess. So, lots of cliché plot devices to move things along in lieu of a plot.
Look, it’s a horror movie starring Brian Austin Green. That should tell you about where to pitch your expectations.
But then, it’s basically well-made in terms of production values. Scene-by-scene it’s well done, a lot of the individual scenes are really well-executed, if you ignore that the whole thing is overall just not well thought-out. It’s kind of interesting, too, that it’s a horror movie with no monster or villain of any sort, almost no onscreen deaths, and little violence. It takes it a step further than a movie like “Final Destination”, where the antagonist is simply death itself and only a very shallow justification is given for why “death” is doing what it does, to having no antagonist, or explanation, at all. Which, you know, that’s interesting, I guess.
And some of the disappearances are pretty cool. One or two I had to rewind and watch again. I bet there is a kid or two out there somewhere who thinks it’s the coolest movie ever.
And, full disclosure: I’ve actually watched it twice. About a year and a half apart, but, I did watch it again. And someday, sometime when I have nothing better to do and it’s been long enough, I may watch it yet again.
So, basically, too badly flawed in far to many ways to be a good movie. But, among the best of this bad type of movie.