A young boy and his older sister venture into the woods so they can save the soul of their dog by digging a hole to hell.

Directors David Amito and Michael Laicini relate the absorbing story at a steady pace, ably craft a supremely creepy and unsettling mood, make good use of the verdant sylvan scenery, nicely capture the gritty aesthetic of a 70's grindhouse horror movie, and do a clever job with the faux documentary aspect which comes complete with neat mock interviews with both film and occult experts. Nicole Tompkins and Rowan Smyth are excellent as the two kids who find themselves in substantial jeopardy. The unsparingly grim ending packs a brutal punch. Both Maksymilian Milczarczyk's striking picturesque cinematography and Alicia Fricker's beautifully eerie score further enhance the overall considerable spookiness of this on the money chiller.

Mom (Kristel Elling) tells Nathan (Rowan Smyth) his dog Maxine who they just put down is in hell because she was bad. Nathan is having bad dreams about his dog. His sister Oralee (Nicole Tompkins) conjures up a scheme to convince Nathan they can redeem Maxine's soul (geesh). She has a hand written Satanic book that directs them into Canada's version of a suicide forest. Here is the spot where Satan landed when he was cast out from heaven. (Who had Canada on their BINGO card?) They start digging a hole in that spot to reach hell.

The first 8 minutes was why you will die if you watch this film and tells you about all the folks who died watching it. It was without a doubt the best part of the film. After the feature they explain all the subliminal images that flashed on the screen that you can see with the pause button. Goes downhill once the actual feature starts.

Guide: No swearing. Brief nudity. Brief necrophilia bestiality.

First off, this film is not an actual 1970's found film. The makers did an okay job with making it seem like it is a film from the 70's, but definitely not one. The girl does not look like she is from the 70's. Granted, the boy does look a lot like that kid from the Fulci film, House By the Cemetery. They have all these strange names in the credits, yet the main two protagonists speak perfect English and their lines are not dubbed in like they would have been in the 70's. Then of course there is the maker of this film that said it was not real. Kind of blew it there, didn't he? So what do we get? A film with a very interesting premise the makers of the film waste trying to hook an audience with the whole, "This could be real" thing. Sadly, if they had put more effort into the actual film, it may have been a very good horror film.

The story, after the boring documentary, starts interestingly enough as a dog is euthanized. The young boy believes the dog to be burning in hell as this is the 70's so I guess he doesn't know all dogs go to heaven. For some odd reason, the sister concocts a plan to try and relieve some of the pain the boy is experiencing by going into the woods and digging their way to hell. Unfortunately, something does seem to be happening around them as they dig in the strange forest.

They basically make things start appearing in the forest around them as the siblings continue to dig deeper. Love this concept, but it is underutilized most likely due to budget constraints. If they had ditched the whole cursed film thing and simply made the story around the two digging and things around them warping in strange ways starting subtle and getting less so, this could have been cool. Too bad, we end up with a couple of dudes, one in his underwear, tormenting the children before a bizarre double ending.

So, it had potential and it had moments, they just underutilized their own premise and concepts. The stupid random stuff spliced in add nothing to the film and I would like to ask the filmmakers why they thought these scenes were necessary and I would like to ask how come they could not make this film more creepy and dark in tone, getting rid of the two hicks one tends to find in a Texas Chainsaw movie and adding strange monstrous figures lurking nearly out of view. Still, a pretty good effort, just needed more in the movie portion and none of the could this be an actual cursed film portion.