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Two bland characters with zero personality or backstory randomly hook up and decide to go hiking together for no reason at all. Then they spend several hours running through bushes and getting lost (even though there are clearly visible roads), and that is pretty much the whole body of the movie. Nothing scary or even interesting happens: people walk around, talk, walk, talk, walk and talk, get lost, get paranoid, run away, go in circles etc. The bad guys who are after the main characters also have absolutely no reason behind their actions and give zero explanation to why they do what they do. The movie blatantly steals, or rather clumsily tries to steal from the Blair Witch Project, Into The Woods, the VVitch and somehow Eyes Wide Shut(?) yet doesn't really understand what did make those films actually work. The actors are wooden and can't emote, and I've heard that the original version of the film had to be re-dubbed since the actors couldn't deliver their lines properly. But the final nail in the coffin is that the director has absolutely no idea how to show the passing of time in the film, so he has to - get this - show what time it is in the movie's universe with captions. After a while (or should I say "A few moments later") you begin to feel as if you're watching a Sponge Bob episode. And near the end it's like somebody told him how to do a montage, so there's a short montage which compresses the events of an entire year in about 20 seconds. From what I understand this is the guy's first film, so I'd cut him some slack for that in form of one extra point, no more tho. Oh, and one jump scare out of a dozen desperate ones did kinda work.

Most of the film is set in a forested area that is quite infamous for witches in reality. The eerie setting starts early on and the film dives into psychological twists in a very subtle way, which we later understand are actually the start of witchy happenings. The narrative however continues to cleverly interplay between real witchy stuff and actual psychological games till it reaches a point of no return. What helps keep it grounded is that the film is made of chaptures, and the time flow is clear. There is a clear ending that explains why the mother dissappeared, and it ties in the whole movie together really well, yet still has an intriguing open ending. Clever, just the right amount of disturbing and witchy, everything it sets out to be. It tickes all the boxes of expectations for a witchy movie.