High Lane
Like, what could possibly go wrong here? *points up*
IMDB says: A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a nightmare.
This is why we people who like horror and suspense movies can't have nice things. This movie could have been SO MUCH BETTER than it was. Once I got over the bad dubbing (I would have rather heard the French and seen subtitles), I got into it. The beginning was actually delightfully suspenseful. A few friends drive into Croatia to hike in the Balkans on a hike that has been shut down and blocked - what could possibly go wrong? Some tension in the group (ex-lovers, a new boyfriend, a reckless leader friend), some very near misses as far as very long falls off cliffs/treacherous footbridges, not bad. I watched with vicarious horror since there's no amount of money anyone could pay me to get on that bridge in the picture.
Things start to go dreadfully wrong when one of the party gets caught in an animal trap and a few of the others are dangling off the side of a cliff. Well, the people off the side of the cliff are saved, but the dude in the animal trap? He's dragged off by a cannibalistic orphan who lives in a cave. Yep, you heard me right. And it just deteriorates from there. Actually it was very similar to the last Vacation Gone Wrong movie I posted (the Chernobyl Diaries). Mutant cannibal sets traps and goes after tourists. Blah, blah, blah.
The main problem with this movie that I have, I suppose, is that I really didn't like or care about any of the characters except just maybe the main character woman who was the last one standing. She was the only one who wasn't either willfully putting her friends in a dangerous position or stepping into someone else's relationships or being whiny/wimpy. Once in awhile, though, she would have this random flashback to a patient she had (I guess she was a doctor?) who did not survive in her hands and she had obvious guilt over it. But seeing how she was unable to save any of the lives of her friends in the slaughterfest that this movie became, I was not sure what it had to do with anything.
Vacation Gone Wrong Factor: ***** Yeah, pretty much nobody survives to tell the tale. Caution: If a hiking path is closed, there MAY just be a good reason for it.
Did I care about the characters factor: ** From the guy who tricked his friends into going on a dangerous hike that was closed to the whiny self-absorbed boyfriend of the main character to the badass ex-boyfriend who may have just let the boyfriend die toward the end, just. . . no. Perhaps the cannibal did the main character a favor by getting rid of her friends for her.
Verdict: *** Not bad for the suspense, at least in the first hour.
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