In 2017, an experienced outdoors enthusiast named Gary Hinge vanished while on an excursion in Northern Nevada. Three years on, his roommate Simon, his sister Beverly, a journalist who covered his disappearance and a private investigator discuss his fate. Gary kept his location secret, as he was known to do, so they stumbled out of the gate to get their search running. The small town initially treats it as big news but without any updates they eventually lose interest. His truck gets found in a location that really wasn’t a place that Gary would want to explore and the search turns up nothing. Beverly suspects foul play and kind of gets in the way of the investigation, eventually hiring on the private investigator to start digging when it looks like it wasn’t her brother that drove his truck out to the High Desert. Police eventually call off the search but some fans of Gary’s blog think they may know where he is. His final posts point in the direction of something horrifying encountered on his last expedition and responding to pressure from his followers, Gary decides to head back out and prove what he saw. You already know how it goes but it’s a lot worse than you think. Solid fake documentary hits the right notes and succeeds in crafting an unsettling tragedy thanks to fine acting from a minimal cast and the perfect amount of slowly growing unease eventually coming to a crescendo. I’m a sucker for horror-themed mockumentaries, so I may not be the best person to come to for an honest opinion but it freaked my wife out to the point where I had to confess it was just a film, so I guess that’s something.
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