Dolly Broadbent (Laurie Felix Bass, who is a damn treat), who we were introduced to two films back, grew up on Majesty Ranch (now the owner) where she and her family were plagued by some horrific entities that may have been close but were not quite human. She’s talked about all this awfulness before and in Fire Watch she mentioned that her father documented a lot of it but the box where he kept all of it disappeared a long while back. After a fire destroyed her home, Dolly managed to find her father’s missing box buried in their root cellar. This is enticing to the familiar faces we’ve come to know from the series and it points, not only to Dolly’s father’s mental decline, but the fact that the investigation of the fatal strangeness cursing the area had been looked into decades before the filmmakers of the series had any clue that some sinister shit was going down. A printed timeline, a mysterious contact, old photographs, film and video fill out the pieces as the usual talking heads add some spice to the intrigue. Butchered animals and spooky visitors prove that just because they call it paranoia doesn’t mean nobody is out to get you. Things get tied together, further questions are raised, more high strangeness gets introduced and I’m beginning to think there may not be an endgame for this series. There’s enough spookiness and interesting ideas on display to keep me invested but them returns are diminishing and my patience is going with em. They set up the next entry, so let’s hope it comes to a close because the water treading should not go on forever.
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