On the "Yellow Brick Road"

    Rarely am I drawn to horror films. Typically, I find them to be perverse and unimaginative. My personal understanding of the cinematic experience is that we are embarking on a journey into the imagination of the writers & the directors. The cinematic experience is best described by the song "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. When this vision comes across to the viewers, the translation from mind, to paper, then finally to the screen, it can become muddled and trite. This is obviously what happened with Yellow Brick Road.
    Written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton, Yellow Brick Road tries in earnest to tell the story of how the entire population Friar, New Hampshire marched to their deaths and an aspiring writer's journey to document the truth of what really happened. A great premise, but not executed to it's fullest extent. The movie starts off feeling a lot like The Blair Witch Project, and similarly amounts to nothing but creepy circumstance and unexplainable phenomenon.  The film delivers no real reason to care about the characters and even less to answer the many questions that it presents.
    I still can not fully understand how a completely classified event could simply be discovered by a simple writer of no extraordinary background or merit. I am even further baffled by the ease at which the official records for the "classified" event were obtained! I'm fairly certain that classified documents don't just get handed over to random people! I get really upset when incredibly illogical events occur in cinema... If it doesn't make sense then it should never leave the cutting room floor!!! There isn't too much more for me to say about this film. Had it been edited properly it would have been better released as C-Level made for tv mystery and not classified as a horror film.

Rating: 1 Star (maximum of five)