More found footage shenanigans from the man behind the Tahoe Joe series (amongst others) Dillon Brown. This time out Mr. Brown is playing the host of a popular YouTube outdoorsman series Primal Instinct, Cole Harrington. Cole is in the Nevada wilds tracking down whatever predator has been wreaking havoc to the cattle population of a local rancher. Game trail footage points to a mountain lion stalking around the spot. He comes across a discarded cellphone and it contains video shot by two university anthropologists who had gone missing during an unauthorized expedition. Which means we get to see what these poor saps stumbled across in the wilds of rural Nevada before our hero has any idea what he’s up against. It will also go a long way as to explaining what happened to Cole Harrington… well, that and his final footage discovered in his abandoned car by a sheriff’s deputy. Cole is going through some shit and is questioning how useful what he’s been shooting is going to be. Divorce and the looming threat of minimized time with his children are weighing heavy and he feels that his headspace bled into the hunting experience as much as he wants to be able to separate his life from his project. It’s all basically him talking to his editor and promising to get his head right. It works but we already knew Dillon Brown was more than capable at presenting a sympathetic middle-aged dude. Makes it all the worse as he keeps coming across disturbing shit that points to something more on the human side of the equation although something that nobody would call “human”… maybe proto-human. Scenic landscapes and a well-crafted sojourn into an abandoned mine bathed in red light add to the sure-handed craftsmanship of Brown’s found footage cryptid horror. Not to mention some suitably unsettling vocalizing from whatever the hell is roaming around the Nevada wilds, making art from bones and carrying skeletal weapons. By this point, Brown is a reliable source for these kind of hijinks… which are exactly my kind of hijinks. Another winner from Horror Dadz Productions.
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