Seventy years ago, an entire town of people stopped what they were doing and walked up a mountain trail, never to be seen again. In modern day, a expidion team hikes the trail, determined to solve the mystery.
One of the Bloody-Disgusting Selcet titles (seems like there are a lot of studios jumping on the After Dark Horrorfest bandwagons - see also Dimension Extreme, Ghost House Underground, Fangoria Frightfest, etc.), "YellowBrickRoad" is a slow-cooking chronicle of a group's descent into madness and mass-hysteria. Slow cooking is a gamble, and one that this film loses.
To use a food metaphor, you can slow cook a steak or a stew, but you gotta flip it/stir it every now and agan. The reward is a nice juicy cut of fresh meat or a tender and savory bowl of stew. This film never bothers to flip us or to stir us but rathers lets us sit and sit until the final product is an overcooked, dry steak or a stew that has burned on the bottom of the pan.
It's boring is what I am saying.
Starring: Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, and Laura Heisler
Directed by: Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland
Budget / Gross: $500K / Direct-to-DVD
IMDB Score: 4.5/10
Tomatometer: 40% critics and 30% audiences liked it
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