Young woman wanders off during a group trip to a mountain with a dark past. She has a weird encounter with the beast that lives on the mountain and when she returns to the party nothing is the same for her.
I'm going to be honest and say that this film didn't work much for me. Very much a member of a horror sub-genre involving weird encounters in the woods that change people, it echoes other similar films a bit too much.
While there is nothing really wrong with what we see here, and despite my grumbling, I do like the film, the problem is that the lead character isn't interesting enough to make this work. Simply put we don't get enough of how she was before for us to really understand the change that has happened to her. Because we don't really get any sense of her as a character before, the fact that she is wandering through things that seem familiar from other films are more noticeable. We lean into what we know from outside the film because the script doesn't give us enough to go on.
I enjoyed this but honestly this should have been stronger.
Quibbles aside, its worth a look for cosmic horror fans
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