![]() ![]() The stranger (veteran TV actor Lee Wilkof) apologizes for all the previous years of inconvenience to Teddy and his wife Melissa (Anessa Ramsey, the 2011 Footloose remake). government designated the townspeople’s “trail of death” as classified, though the town eventually repopulated.Īs in many cosmic horror tales, a case of “curiosity killed the cat” soon follows the film’s opening - a creepy government recording from a sole survivor of the incident in 1940 who is clearly insane - with the main protagonist Teddy (Michael Laurino, Marriage Killer) receiving a mysterious bundle of declassified files from an even more mysterious man. According to historical records, only a little over half of the townspeople’s bodies were recovered: some frozen to death, some brutally murdered, while the remainder were never found. In 1940, everyone in the town of Friar, New Hampshire (over 600 people) left without taking anything with them after a mass viewing of The Wizard of Oz, prompting the trail they took to be dubbed The Yellow Brick Road. But first things first…why is it called YellowBrickRoad? I wouldn’t recommend that the filmmakers deserve to present the ending they intended the audience to see.īut what I will say is that if you don’t like a “big cosmic reveal” like in The Beyond or even The Black Hole, then you may want to pause the movie after its apparent climax, take a quick bathroom break, then finish it so that you have a sense of what a different ending may have felt like. One reviewer goes so far as to beg the audience not to watch the last eight minutes of the film. Winner of Best Film at the 2010 New York City Horror Film Festival, this oddly titled movie written and directed by Jesse Holland ( We Go On, The Crooked Man) and Andy Mitton ( The Witch in the Window, 2022’s Harbinger) is getting a second life thanks to a 10th Anniversary home entertainment release that arrived on 8/9 on loaded Blu-ray (for the very first time), DVD, and VOD.īut even a cursory web search will tell you that both critic and audience reviews are about 50/50, making it just as polarizing as American politics or any number of other terrifying subjects, including other cosmic horror films. People usually either love or hate these films, especially their endings, which tend to be downers (for example, I personally think the ending of The Mist was bupkis, but thousands apparently thought it was brilliant – hey, they’re allowed to be as wrong as they want). ![]() ![]() Lovecraft who pioneered it), this subgenre is very hit-and-miss in movie form. Come, let us reflect on this list of Cosmic Horror Films from yesteryear:Īlso known as “Lovecraftian Horror” (after controversial English author H.P. ![]()
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