Lennon (Georgina Campbell, who already confronted loads of horrors within the wonderful “Barbarian”) is a park ranger assigned to the backcountry. Which means she goes deep into the woods of a nationwide park and units up store in a small shack. The partitions are skinny sufficient that her lantern illuminates all the constructing at night time, like a shadowbox. It is a lone beacon slicing by impenetrable darkness. By day, she hikes by the woods, listening to podcasts about individuals who mysteriously go lacking in nationwide parks. Because it seems, Lennon has a historical past with this — when she was a toddler, her sister vanished within the very nationwide park the place she now works.
We already know Lennon is in some sort of hazard as a result of a gap scene reveals the ranger who beforehand inhabited her shack went lacking, strolling off into the woods after leaving an ominous notice about owing the land a physique. Author-director Sutherland establishes a foreboding temper from the bounce, and the pictures of the thick woods deliver with them a way of menace, even in broad daylight.
After a late-night customer drags Lennon out into the woods, she will get caught up in a brand new lacking particular person case that brings again haunting recollections of her sister’s disappearance. Simply what’s going on right here? Folks disappear within the woods on a regular basis for varied causes, however what if there was one thing supernatural behind these conditions? Supernatural … or otherworldly? Issues go from unhealthy to worse reasonably rapidly for Lennon, and the very nature of actuality appears to bend.