Three filmmakers looking for a story and filming their exploits run afoul a Minnesota legend and get the usual found footage comeuppance. The opening text warns that this is footage from a recently discovered vhs master presented in its original form but then right after they throw the standard poorly-acted Blair Witch apology in your face, opening credits completely negate any suspension of disbelief. Great job. Gateway Township has a history of ghost sightings, missing hitchhikers and strange noises and it all comes back to the notorious Satan worshipper Jasper Hagan and I guess it’s intriguing enough to get the small crew out there following an email from a local. Of course, old creepy Jasper had some property in the woods and of course our gaggle of dimwits will be heading out to the isolated forest. There’s more camera shots that defy the reality they’re going for and you can’t technically call anyone actors because I’m sure that would be considered libel. Brenda, a motor-mouthed Minnesotan gal, takes them on a tour of the woods but doesn’t want to stay there too long. Inverted crosses get the director/host/producer (probably) Chuck really excited and he refuses to listen to reason because he smells himself a ticket to big bucks city. He and his cameraman head to some abandoned cabins where bad shit went down and the girls are left behind in the car to ramble on about shit and get spooked. There’s an out-of-focus POV shot to represent the evil force, a satanic journal that was probably crafted during a study period and a distorted noise to go along with the POV. Things pick up when it drops the broke-ass Blair Witch angle and hits us with a broke-ass Evil Dead one. Is it good? No. No, no, no, no. Is it entertaining? Also, no but it did happen and I can’t deny that.
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