A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.
Direction
Myrick's restraint—horror through what you barely see.
Cinematography
The Afghan desert as alien landscape, vast and hostile.
Sound
Radio static and distant screams doing heavy lifting.
Director
Daniel Myrick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daniel Myrick co-directed The Blair Witch Project (1999), and this shares its 'less is more' philosophy.
The film deliberately mirrors real US military failures in Afghanistan's mountainous terrain, weaponizing geography itself.
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