On the drive Blake goes on a rant about how no one talks anymore because they’re too busy with social media or their cell phones. He insists everyone put their phones in a bag for the weekend so they can concentrate on each other. When they stop at a welcome center on the highway they ask which exit to take for their destination. The worker isn’t sure, but warns them to be careful because there is a storm coming. The kids are not concerned.
Later that night Blake hits a branch in the road which cracks the windshield and shatters the passenger window. They stop at what appears to be an abandoned school to get shelter and hopefully find a working phone. While Blake breaks the glass to get in, the girls whine about how they’re cold, they want to go to a hotel, and they’re hungry. The whole situation seems to have gone over their heads.
Once inside they split up to try to find food and a phone, while Blake and Ella go back to the car to get blankets and the cells phones. Then Ella makes a weird move by going behind the school for bathroom purposes, rather than finding one in the building. It’s a school. There’s going to be tons of them.
When Andi is found lying on the floor in a puddle of blood, Logan insists he saw a shadow leaving the room before he found her. The others are skeptical, which is odd since it is a large building and there could be a janitor or security, or perhaps an intruder like them.
The group immediately starts to disintegrate as they accuse each other of killing Andi. It’s unclear why this would be their first reaction. Usually friends would be the last people you’d suspect, unless they have a history of violence, which is never implied.
In another awkward move, they decide the best place to be is in the gym, which is in the basement. There they sit in the dark, in the middle of a room, looking at a camp light. It’s the most unsafe thing I can think of since their backs are totally exposed and the light will make them blind if they attempt to look into the dark.
There are just bad moves all around. They’ve contaminated the scene of death by everyone coming into it, picking up the hammer which they think is the murder weapon, and moving her body to a different location. Also they keep splitting up and when they’re not doing that, they’re fighting with each other. And don’t even get me started on the police who have evidence markers at the scene and pick up a bow and arrow in their bare hands, thus contaminating the evidence.
The movie is told in flashback through police interviews with the survivors at the school, which has surveillance cameras so that everything can be tidily explained in the last act. If only they’d known that before they lied to the police.
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