A couple plan on spending some fun time in the woods, away from busy modern life ; he is nervous and shy, she is sunny and bold. Somewhere during the trip, the young woman stops for a "pee break" - and never returns from her little outing. Both worried and annoyed, her boyfriend tries to find her...
Very professional short, with good acting, good editing, good directing - well, pretty much good everything. There's a careful balance between the horror shown and the horror guessed-at, meaning that this is not the cheap little shocker it could have become in lesser hands. The underlying subject matter, of course, is so old as to be called archetypal : when dressed in animal furs and huddled around a campfire, our ancestors told each other whispered stories about the dreadful things that can happen to people who lose their way or stray into unknown territory...
Looking forward to discovering other work by the same creators.
Very professional short, with good acting, good editing, good directing - well, pretty much good everything. There's a careful balance between the horror shown and the horror guessed-at, meaning that this is not the cheap little shocker it could have become in lesser hands. The underlying subject matter, of course, is so old as to be called archetypal : when dressed in animal furs and huddled around a campfire, our ancestors told each other whispered stories about the dreadful things that can happen to people who lose their way or stray into unknown territory...
Looking forward to discovering other work by the same creators.
