⭐️1/2
A young woman arrives at her new job as a camp counselor in the middle of the woods only to find all of the children missing. The autumn camp in the dense Oregon woods stands undisturbed and the local authorities have no answers as to what became of the vanished children and the cute counselor. A camera is found and some revelations begin to come forth… unbelievable as they may be. Claire films everything for her child psychology course and the camp consisting of orphans and underprivileged children seems the perfect fit for her degree. She’s also got some personal bullshit she may be running from too. Claire arrives after a long, rainy and beautiful drive to the camp and as I already let spill, it’s seemingly void of any life. Claire claims she feels like she’s been to this place before and is further creeped out by the quiet that has greeted her… the discarded toys help nothing. Calling for assistance gets her nowhere and it’s starting to look like she’s been set up for some bad business. She explores the empty buildings for a bit, finding some books that I’m sure will deliver the necessary spooky exposition required for our clueless hero to at least have a fighting chance. She assumes she’s being pranked but it’s looking less and less likely. Shit gets more confusing when Claire figures out the camp closed down fifteen years ago after children disappeared and were never discovered. A dead car prevents Claire from fleeing and her night goes down the shitter from there. I’m familiar with the folklore of black-eyed children, having read enough internet forums and supposed personal encounters to know that these things are dangerous to invite in. Claire does not know this and this spells trouble with a capital T when some of those missing kids wander on back to camp with eyes resembling a dark void. She coughs up some blood, sees some disturbing drawings in a journal and then watches a video of the guy who built the camp (Bill Oberst Jr.) throwing everything he has in a video explaining just what he was doing with the isolated camp and the horror that came its way. Claire’s past definitely has her tied to something sinister and unfortunately for her, the spooky kids are gonna reveal everything. Does the Hungarian countryside stand in well for the forest of Oregon? As someone who has been to neither I can say with complete confidence that they do. Performances are rough but this is Hungarian actors working in English and I will never shit on someone mastering my native tongue which I abuse daily. We all know where I stand on Bill Oberst Jr. so I don’t need to say a damn thing about perking up when he delivered a fucking eleven minute monologue. There’s a couple spooky visuals but nothing ever feels all that interesting until the movie is nearly over and even then it doesn’t come off as all that worth it.
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