When a young hiker stumbles onto an isolated farm after losing her way on the Appalachian Trail, she is taken in by a strange yet beautiful couple desperate to protect a secret deep in the mountains.
Cinematography
Fog-drenched Appalachian gloom that makes trees feel judgmental.
Acting
Madeline Brewer's fragile intensity steals every scene she's in.
Sound
Minimal score lets the silence of those mountains do the screaming.
Director
Takashi Doscher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just 18 days on a working farm in Georgia, with Doscher rewriting scenes nightly based on weather.
The film quietly inverts Appalachian horror tropes—instead of hostile locals, the threat is desperate preservation of something precious, making the 'monsters' weirdly sympathetic.
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