A movie based on true events or urban legends creates always a special premise. How much of it is actually true, what's fiction, what's creative freedom of writers or directors. In this particular case it gets very blurry. The event of Friar, NH, population 500+, disappear in the 40's over night...
here starts yellow brick road, following the traces of this very road through the wilderness into paranoia, mental and emotional breakdown, hallucinations and ultimately into suicide, kills and disappearance.
A lot of things in the movie are only suggested and left me with a feeling of disappointment and uncertainty. E.g. The whole wizard of Oz reverences. The Film role in the cinema, the Crazy sound & music, the hat, the white gloves, the scare crow etc. All is linked to WoO and still it did not convince me fully. My explanation is: the music lured the population into doom and our bunch of friends as well - a pied piper nod.
Still, I think it's an interesting movie, somehow a truly missed opportunity in my POV, to create something outstanding in this genre.
A lot of things in the movie are only suggested and left me with a feeling of disappointment and uncertainty. E.g. The whole wizard of Oz reverences. The Film role in the cinema, the Crazy sound & music, the hat, the white gloves, the scare crow etc. All is linked to WoO and still it did not convince me fully. My explanation is: the music lured the population into doom and our bunch of friends as well - a pied piper nod.
Still, I think it's an interesting movie, somehow a truly missed opportunity in my POV, to create something outstanding in this genre.