
One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No One knows why. A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar's evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and m... (Full plot summary below)
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One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No One knows why. A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar's evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for. Over the years, a quiet cover-up operation managed to weave the story of Friar into the stuff of legends and backwoods fairy tales. The town has slowly repopulated, but the vast wilderness is mostly untracked, with the northern-most stretches off limits to local hunters and loggers. In 2008, the coordinates for the "YELLOWBRICKROAD" trail head were declassified. The first official expedition into a dark and twisted wilderness will attempt to solve the mystery of the lost citizens of Friar...and reach the end of the trail.
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| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersMeticulously paced, methodical in the way it delivers its information, this film isn't so much scary as it is deeply disconcerting, everything moving towards a somewhat inevitable conclusion that had me nonetheless squirming. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanUnsettling and quite unlike any other horror flick you're likely to have seen. |
| PopMattersBill GibronUp until the reveal, yellowbrickroad is very good indeed. Afterward, it's fine, if flawed. |
| TheHorrorShowScott WeinbergA well-shot, multi-dimensional, and unexpectedly cerebral little horror story. |
| Village VoiceBrian MillerThe film is caught in the fatal demographic desert between the "Scream" and "Baghead" crowds - neither funny nor quirky enough to sustain interest during its long march. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongAs cheap horror fare goes, YellowBrickRoad emphasizes imagination over gore. This is good, because the gore here is somewhat laughable, while the imagination is just creepy enough to be effective. |
| Boston GlobeEthan GilsdorfDespite us tagging along the trail for days, we feel closer to the landscape than to the characters. |
| Orlando WeeklyRob BoylanNot only are the movie's key questions left unanswered, they are left almost entirely unexplored once the cast begins their journey on the trail. |
| Horror.comStaci Layne WilsonIn the end, YellowBrickRoad is just another pathway for people who go into the woods, go crazy, and get killed. |
| Boston PhoenixMichael C. WalshWe arrive at something resembling a mid-'90s Marilyn Manson music video. Just bizarre. |