Yellow Brick Road

Despite us tagging along the trail for days, we feel closer to the landscape than to the characters.

"Yellowbrickroad" is without personality. It's competently made, but the cast and direction are just bland.

As 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.

The 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.

Co-writer/directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton miss as many opportunities as they develop here, but they maintain the mystery and ratchet up suspense like seasoned pros.

Underwhelming finish explains zilch, but good perfs, atmospherics and use of backwoods locations make Yellowbrickroad an intriguing cipher.

A well-shot, multi-dimensional, and unexpectedly cerebral little horror story.

A disturbing and unsettling bit of word to the wise that sometimes the unsolvable should remain unsolved...

Clever and packed with smart characters.

It's rare these days to see a refreshing approach to backwoods horror, but YellowBrickRoad once again proves that there are still original and terrifying stories lurking in nature.

In the end, YellowBrickRoad is just another pathway for people who go into the woods, go crazy, and get killed.

YellowBrickRoad not only offers a mystery with no solution (which isn't such a terrible thing by itself), but also a story with no clear sense of purpose.