⭐️⭐️1/2
A young man decides to travel across the world to finally meet his internet crush face to face. Filmmaker Jason brings his camera along, eager to meet the pretty young aspiring filmmaker named Kate who invited him to come visit her in some unnamed part of Asia. Alas, this is not a globe-trekking love story and poor stupid Jason is about to willingly walk right into a world of some seriously fucked up hurt. It’s okay… Jason is kind of a schmuck. Kate seems reluctant to be filmed but isn’t outright rude about it… Jason is but I think he’s supposed to be American (you can hear the Canadian come through every so often) so that tracks. Anyways, she takes him to her isolated village in the middle of the woods and the creepiness begins. The place is pretty deserted, there’s bugs in the water, Kate acts odd as fuck and there’s some spooky figures roaming around. His first night is kind of uncomfortable but he sticks it out because he likes the girl. He gets attacked by a couple villagers with pasty faces, brandishing rocks and there’s an uncomfortable dinner involving chicken blood and a creepy old neighbor. Jason seems to be stalked by something draped in a burial shroud and stupidly wanders around the empty buildings at night, encountering various sinister paranormal shenanigans. Nothing shows up on film when he tries to prove things to Kate but we’re damn sure by this point (the film never hides the fact) that’s she’s up to no good anyways. Jason’s friend is trying to find the village but is having no luck and the American idiot finally figures out it’s time to leave… too damn late, ya idjit. Murder, revenge, evil spirits and some fun bits of creepiness play out. Lei Wang is pretty great, bringing just enough intrigue to her lunacy to be convincing enough as someone you could see a boner like Jason stick around for. And Jason is a boner but a believable boner so I’ll take it… the character… and maybe the boner. I’m always down for some different spooks in my found footage flicks and this one delivers but it does go on just a bit too long and has a pretty dumbass ending. You’ve seen it play out before but it’s better than some of the crap ya wade through.
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