Michelle, Angela, Scott and Robbie go to the desert to shoot footage for a music video and disappear never to be seen again. Five years later someone finds Robbie’s camera and this footage is on it.
It’s like watching your friends home movies and that’s not interesting for anyone. They sit around, talk, sing, do nothing or visit family. There’s no plot, character development or any reason to care about these people.
After they head out into the desert, it’s more of the same. Then at fifty five minutes in something happens in the middle of the night as they’re camping. Robbie is off on his own when he hears the screams of his friends. The next morning we see he’s hiding in crevice, his hair is matted with blood and there are still forty five minutes left in this film. Oh god.
Much of the movie is at night and Robbie is using a small flashlight to illuminate what he’s seeing. So get ready to see almost nothing for half the film. It’s a pinpoint of light in the desert, often looking as if he’s shining a flashlight through a toilet paper roll. So while we know his friends are dead, we don’t see anything other than blood. All the action happens off camera in the dark.
It’s not clear why they were camping for multiple days to shoot this video. The second day they’re lying in the sun, recording sounds in the rocks, or hanging out for most of it. Why stay so long? You hike in, shoot your dusk scenes, camp for the night, get up and shoot your day scenes, and hike back.
It’s also not clear why the blood is always wet. The blood should dry especially with the high heat in the desert, but it’s always wet and gooey.
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| You’ve got almost an hour of shots like this. |
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