The idea of a whole town going crazy is something I like. Something feels very Shining to me. And I liked this movie, but felt a little let down by the ending. It did a fantastic job of making everything feel just crazy enough. While they're walking the trail, music starts being audible. Everyone can hear it, and it never stops. The sound is mixed very well, making the experience feel authentic. It never feels like the music is coming from anywhere in particular, but the way it permeates every shot, combined with the direction, makes their descent into madness understandable.
I did have a small problem with the violence. When the first death happens, it isn't realistic. It starts off fine, but after some fighting and cutting, it results in someone's leg being torn off. That's a level that doesn't work for this movie. The premise is already interesting, but also strange enough to require that we establish that everything else in the world works the way we expect it to.
The budget was about half a million, and they did a great job with it. The picture is very well handled, even nighttime scenes look right. The sound is handled really well, although I sort of wish they could use music from The Wizard of Oz. Some of that is really creepy stuff.
The ending is a problem for some people. Other people seemed to have liked it. I think it was a decent ending, but it needed to be a little more explicit. Not "spell-it-out" explicit, but the script could had been rephrased to make things work.
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