The nearly decades-old mystery behind a group of missing well-off teenage boys brings a team of paranormal investigators to a sacred cave system in the Malibu hills looking for some answers. The misadventure of the teens is told through the lens of found footage while standard opening leads to a viewing of the edited program the paranormal investigators are piecing together with access to the SD card of the video recorded by the missing high-schoolers and plenty of documentary footage done by the team, we get a nice slab of mockumentary fun to fill is in on all the spookiness of the unsolved case. While hiking on some land with plenty of history and camping on a summit that was the site of a massacre, the obnoxious teens disturb some burial grounds and eventually come across a cave hidden in the side of a steep hill. One dude accidentally ingests some muffins loaded with shrooms (being hungry and an idiot, he eats more than anyone should) and goes on a very heavy trip as night falls. It would seem that what the three other boys dismiss as hallucinations may be contact with some sort of entity. It falls apart shortly after with the discovery of bones and a revelation of missing grandparents by one of the kids. The tripping dope goes missing and their search for him brings them back to the cave. The footage ends following a cave-in. With several images of some kind of apparition appearing on the footage, the paranormal team believes they can get in there and make contact with the entity and solve the mystery. The team figures out just what is haunting the cave and it’s a doozy that I will not spoil here but, needless to say, this likable group of ghost hunters may be pretty fucked. It’s a nice molding of found footage within a cinematic style as the investigation watches the concerning video of an ill-fated nightmare and then begin to fall to the same threat. Plus it managed to get me with a jump scare (choreographed as it was), and I’ll always appreciate that.
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