The Legend of Jack and Jill (2021)

 Aka Jack and Jill

A horror movie based on a nursery rhyme, yet with seemingly no relation to it except a pail and their names.   Our movie opens with a mother dragging a son and daughter up a hill as a man chases them.  She tells them to keep running and never trust anyone, while she goes back to stop the man from harming her children.  Fifteen years later -  oh crap, that’s not a good sign - a woman hiking by herself in the mountains finds a pail and is set upon by people in the woods.

Cut to a group of friends who meet up at a hostel for a weekend hike in an area where there seem to be a lot of missing hikers.  No one is concerned, even after meeting two sisters handing out flyers of their recently missing sister. Away everyone goes into the woods and carnage begins.  

So much nonsense.  Why do soon to be dead hikers find shiny new pails in the wild? Shouldn’t they be rusty or do Jack and Jill have a pail guy? Why do the sisters ask the group to hand out flyers on the trail when they are going hiking themselves?  Why do  the sisters shy away when they hear someone in the woods when it could be their missing sister? Also why does everyone think no one else will be hiking on this trail?   Why does Jill talk like a caveman?  Did she get a head injury during her years in the wild?  Both children spoke correctly when their mother left them in the mountains. They wouldn’t lose the ability to speak just because they only had one other person around. And what’s with actors who have no idea how to fake cry? Or was it supposed to be a panic attack or asthma attack? And when they knew there were killers in the woods, why didn’t they group together to run back to the hostel? It seems it would have been easy to go either up or down that hill so all could be together, rather than go back separately. 

Ridiculous dialogue:

She has to be here. She’s our little sister.

Sister 1 - There’s someone in the woods.

Sister 2 - Don’t let your mind play tricks on you. People go missing in the woods all the time.

No one else would be up, here, would they?

That’s a lot of missing people flyers for one area.

Would you pick up a pail in an area known for missing
people where local legend is about the killer spawn of an
insane woman roaming the hills

It seems like a lot of these films have one really
cool shot in them and the rest is meh.

How could no one have stumbled on them before if
they are living in the cool bunker? Also what a
great place to shoot a movie.