A little horror movie starring Cindy Sampson and Aaron Ashmore (Smallville)
The story: a journalist goes looking for a story about missing people that her editor doesn't want. Once at the small village, she and her friends find the people don't want them there and then they encounter a mysterious fog that hides a dark secret.
Was it good?
No. It tries to do the slow build sort of thing, which I can enjoy when the character work is interesting. Here we have a bunch of cliches -- the girl who puts work before her boyfriend, the journalist who wants a story that the editor doesn't believe in so she runs off for it anyway, etc. Once they get to the village it's all very one note. They don't want them. We get it. Compare that to AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON where the boys land at the pub -- a scene that mixes laughter with tension.
Once they go off into the woods and encounter the mysterious fog it gets more actiony as they become pursued by the villagers who ***SPOILER ALERT**** are actually monsters. Which if you've never read any Lovecraft might be a shock, but if you have then it's pretty standard.
Unfortunately, while the movie tries hard and I do like the slow build concept, there just isn't enough here to recommend. It does a lot of things that an non-inspired monster movie would do but doesn't do any of them especially well and then it doesn't do anything special that could make you really take notice of it. There's no interesting character work, there's no interesting theme, the material is approached in a very straight-forward way and just never finds anything special.
***AVOID ***
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