Scott (Jon Foster) and Penny (Sarah Jones) decide to go away for a year and live in a remote area, a magical house where they never have to eat and go to town for food. Scott wants to film their being away from technology. The movie starts out incredibly bad, some by design. They come across some oddly made "scarecrows" which Penny recognizes as the art of "Mr. Jones" an unknown artist who has sent these pieces to people. Their new goal is to film the artwork and maybe but together a coffee table book or something.

The movie contains boring interviews as filler, one of which gives us an explanation, which repeats itself. The plot (POSSIBLE SPOILER) reminded me of the Jeffrey Konvitz 70's blockbuster. It isn't until the last 30 minutes does the intensity factor go anywhere. The acting was okay, but when you have someone beating on a door yelling "Penny, Penny..." you can't help but think they should have chosen a different name.

The film shows some originality over its hand held counterparts, but suffers from the same problem. Constant close up scenes of a guy's face or film of someone running with the camera makes for crappy viewing. They took a good film concept and cheapened it.

Recommend as a rental.

Found footage with a twist? How many times have heard this one? Too many times to count. And not only was I skeptical, the movie kind of showed me that it was as I expected (which means not very good). But if you can stay with it through the end, you might get something of a "reward". By that I mean the really wicked ending, that is kind of psychedelic, even without the use of any enhancing drugs.

The effect is built up during the movie, which takes it sweet old time. Something that is sort of boring. Plus the characters are not really helping, doing what other horror movie stock characters do: wrong decisions, even when faced with consequences. But again, the ending almost makes up for that, if you like weird.

A young couple moves to the woods and soon finds their nightmares and reality colliding.

The opening scene is fun and flirty, and makes road trips look like a joyous adventure (which they often are). I was immediately enamored with the two main characters, which rarely happens in movies -- and even more rarely in horror films, where it is a waste of time to get attached to anyone.

For the first hour, we have a very clever idea of this art-meets-anthropology documentary. The website Culture Crypt (whoever they are) aptly refers to this as "Exit Through the Gift Shop" or "Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?" meets "The Blair Witch Project". That is pretty much spot on.

Unfortunately for the film, as strong as the first hour is, things tend to fall apart in the last fifteen or twenty minutes. If the film were to stay as good right on through, it would be a hit. But, sadly, this was not to be.