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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Just Before Dawn, it turns a remote Pacific Northwest wilderness trip into a tense, stripped-down survival ordeal, emphasizing isolation, ominous forest spaces, and a small group’s growing vulnerability.
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Why this pick
It shares the early-'80s backwoods slasher texture: young adults cut off from help, nighttime woodland stalking, and a sustained sense that familiar outdoor spaces have become dangerous.
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Why this pick
This is a harsher, more adult variation on wilderness terror, using rugged Canadian terrain, physical exhaustion, and unseen pursuit to create the same bleak, exposed feeling.
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Why this pick
Another low-budget woodland slasher with hikers, a secluded setting, and an old-fashioned campfire-chiller mood; it should suit the appeal of ominous trails and rural isolation.
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Why this pick
Though more kinetic, it similarly strands a group of friends in remote country and builds tension through hostile terrain, uncertain pursuers, and escalating fight-or-flight suspense.
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01 / THE STORY
Two men named Ty (Mike Kellin) and Vachel (Charles Bartlett) are hunting in a forest and come across an abandoned church, which they go in to explore. After Ty sees their truck being crashed into a tree, Vachel is stabbed with a serrated machete by a chuckling assailant who then dons Vachel's hat and jacket. Ty, seeing the murderer come out of the church, quietly flees off into the forest. Meanwhile, forest ranger Roy McLean (George Kennedy) is at his home, where he encounters a van of five college-aged adults heading to rural property which one of them has inherited. Despite his insistence that they not venture up the mountain, the five continue along. Among them are Warren (Gregg Henry); his girlfriend Constance (Deborah Benson); Jonathan (Chris Lemmon), and his girlfriend, Megan (Jamie Rose); and Daniel, Jonathan's brother (Ralph Seymour).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ty
Constance
Vachel
Megan
Roy McLean
Jonathan
Warren
Daniel
