I saw the trailer for this a long time ago and saw this at a film festival in San Fran a year ago, still remember it; I'm looking forward to checking it on DVD in a few weeks. It's got the familiar scenario of "The Vacation that Goes Straight to Hell," and pays homage to TCM and Hills Have Eyes where one dysfunctional family meets a much more dysfunctional family. The plot's simple, simple isgood IMO.. Family stranded, strange threatening environment, family meets the people they really shouldn't have, and the the cast countdwindles. It's a more stripped-down horror from a director who usually does films with more nightmare-esquire logic.
It's a lot easier to follow than his previous two, still gets trippy at times..but it still has a crazy elaborate palette of sound/music, and the film(!) stock and look is probably one of the best I've seen in an under-million dollar movie. Interestingly most of the characters are mute(on sides of good AND evil), Mrs. Leeds, the head of the screwed up clan is an unpredictable riot. Freaky and funny. It feels like you took Hansel and Gretel and merged it with Hills have Eyes, kind of like those old Creepy/Eerie comics from the 70's/80's. Mrs. Leeds definitely feels like one of those twisted crones. There's a few welcome moments of humor in it, it doesn't take itself TOO seriously but gets good and mean when it wants to. And it's very cool to see Ellen Sandweiss come back(she hasn't aged!), running through the woods shrieking once again..
It's a lot easier to follow than his previous two, still gets trippy at times..but it still has a crazy elaborate palette of sound/music, and the film(!) stock and look is probably one of the best I've seen in an under-million dollar movie. Interestingly most of the characters are mute(on sides of good AND evil), Mrs. Leeds, the head of the screwed up clan is an unpredictable riot. Freaky and funny. It feels like you took Hansel and Gretel and merged it with Hills have Eyes, kind of like those old Creepy/Eerie comics from the 70's/80's. Mrs. Leeds definitely feels like one of those twisted crones. There's a few welcome moments of humor in it, it doesn't take itself TOO seriously but gets good and mean when it wants to. And it's very cool to see Ellen Sandweiss come back(she hasn't aged!), running through the woods shrieking once again..