YellowBrickRoad (2010)

You won't be disappointed!

How sad is this?

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The acting in this movie is really good.

My wife absolutely hated this film while I thought it had many redeeming features, I do not mind cryptic films and do not require spoon feeding but I like to know what I am eating. The film is based on the disappearance of the inhabitants of a town in New England and the subsequent investigation.The positive points is the acting is OK, the distant music is unnerving and the gradual descent into madness of the people looking for the trail where the original inhabitants took. The major problem is the film looks like a good idea rather than a story or plot. Where the film goes wrong is we need the threads brought together, what is causing the music, why are all the instruments malfunctioning, where are the disappeared people, unfortunately we are left to derive our own ending which is better than the one in the film, pity, the film could have been excellent.

Seriously nothing happens. First two thirds of this film are pointless, then just as it started to get slightly better it finishes (sort of) This movie had the potential to be pretty good and to be something different but it was so dull that I really don't know how I made it to the end. Let's say something about the end... Mmmmm how about the fact that there isn't one! Irritating music, irritating acting, irritating characters and a really really poorly thought through "ending" that didn't tie up anything or reach any sort of conclusion. In short save the hour and a half of your life for something better... There are so many better films out there

If you liked Blair Witch Project (1999) they told me then you should watch Yellow Brick Road. So I did and at the end, so far no flick has beaten Blair Witch and this flick here doesn't do it neither.When in the '40's a whole town's, Friar, population disappeared it was never explained why and the road towards it was closed by the cops until the moment that an official expedition is out to find what happened with that particular town. Once in the woods they do hear a song, they recognize it, it's from Wizard Of Oz (1939). But the music becomes louder and louder and slowly they all go insane. It even goes that far that one girl is being killed by a member. That's the best part of this flick.What this flick is really about is screaming and yelling and crying and eating berries let that be what happens for almost the whole flick. Sure they all are going to die somehow but I found it rather boring. The sounds of Blair Witch did work and gave it an eery atmosphere but here it didn't work. The long walk in the wood isn't interesting enough to keep you watching it, I understand a lot of geeks will turn it off. And then there's of course the ending. You love it or you hate it it's just surreal. Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

The only thing disturbing about this movie is that someone actually agreed to make it. I understand that it's an independent film, written, directed, and starring first timers, but anyone who read this script had to have known it just wouldn't work! Don't get me wrong, the story they had was extremely solid, and they could have taken it in a million different directions, any other direction than the one they took. The story starts 70 years ago, when an entire town randomly decides to follow a path into the woods and are never heard from again. The FBI investigated, covered up whatever they found, and kept the whole area off limits, until a random group of people decide to investigate for themselves and write a book about their experiences. First of all, this group of people have no connection to the town, people, or even each other, so why do this? Second, for 70 years the FBI has kept the area off limits to everyone, so what makes this group so special? These idiots march into the woods and the only thing they find is music playing, music that gets progressively louder until it drives them insane. The music is from the Wizard of Oz, but the producers were too cheap to buy the rights to the music from the Wizard of Oz, so it's very similar melodies with different words that nearly drove me to insanity. These idiots romp through the woods makes the Blair Witch Project look like an Oscar worthy film by comparison. It's a lot of talking, and crying, and yelling, that leads to an ending that is by far one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. The ending is the strangest part of all, in that it builds up and plays like it's some huge twist, which maybe it would have been had it made any sense at all. The acting was terrible, the direction was all over the place, and the film destroys the story worst than Paula Deen destroyed her career. This is one film you should absolutely avoid!