Why Us? (2012)

Five friends head out on the road to spend a weekend at a cabin. One of the guys decides to film everything. After driving awhile they stop because one girl needs to relieve herself.  For unknown reasons, she wanders into the woods, rather than finding a good spot close the road. After shes been gone for ten minutes, the others go looking for her. When they find her, she tells them she’s found a door in the woods.

By her description, I thought it would be a hidden door or some sort of door in the side of a mountain. But it looks like the side of a  building so not sure why it’s so surprising.  

They decide to break in and inside it appears to be an underground bunker with multiple corridors.  After feeling uneasy, they head back to the entrance and find themselves locked in.  With no way to open the door, they search for another way out.  Unfortunately their fear that something is in the dark is well founded and they will be attacked by something unseen which turns them into…something. Not sure if they’re alive, dead, a mutant, or a monster but you wouldn’t want to see it coming at you, especially if it used to be your friend.

This movie is bookended by people watching the video the group shot.  There seems to be some sort of public health crisis since people on the streets are wearing masks, the streets are fairly deserted, and one guy mentions he hasn’t been out in awhile.

Most of the movie takes place in the bunker and we see a whole lot of nothing.  Probably the most annoying aspect of the film is that this is a found footage film, yet there is background music in some parts.  When it first started, I thought the music - which is like something you’d hear at a dance club - was coming from inside the bunker.  It would get louder and then fade and disappear.  The characters were saying “did you hear that” but apparently it wasn’t the music since at other times, they had no reaction to it. There was also some background music that sounded like a kids toy. Neither did anything for the tone of the film except distract and confuse the viewer.

Ridiculous dialogue:

There’s a door in the woods.

Not realizing having a piercing in your gum means you’ll
always look like you have food stuck in her teeth 

Tom is very hard to see, but he doesn’t look well

Being careful about what to touch is the only good idea they had.

The movie is mostly shots of faces in the dark or just the dark.

I’m not.