A social media giveaway is won by an aspiring vlogger and Angus Mattock happily makes his way to the wilderness retreat he’s been awarded. Documenting his digital detox in the gorgeous wilds has him following directions deep into the middle of nowhere, where a freshly set up mini cabin awaits him. He attempts to make the most of his time cutoff from modern amenities even if it sure as shit ain’t exactly roughing it. He picks up some unsettling sounds on his equipment and then begins hearing them with his own ears as night falls. The sound of screams has him snuffing out all his light sources and hiding in his tiny cabin. A frantic woman appears at the door and claims that something is after her and she needs to be let inside. Angus refuses and even pushes the woman down when she makes a desperate attempt to get in. She then wanders off into the darkness. The next day Angus walks into the woods in an attempt locate the woman he was no help to the night before. His axe gets stolen from him while he’s taking a dump in the woods and he returns to his cabin to find the place ransacked of anything that would help him in the situation he’s ill-prepared for. He decides it’s time to hike on out of the area and get back to regular life… sure, that’s gonna happen. A quick sojourn into a cave proves to be disturbing and he’s back at the cabin as night falls and something out in the perfect dark terrorizes him. The film stumbles on as our hero shares a recent tragedy and attempts to survive and get help however he can. Some nasty foot violence happens, forcing Angus to put a halt to any hiking out and madness comes knocking along with whatever is hanging about out of the viewer’s eye-line. Self discovery at least feels earned but boredom is still boredom and that boredom is even worse than regular boredom when spending all of your time with a mildly wet blanket of a man.
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