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The Borderlands
Why this pick
Its investigative team enters an isolated community to document an inexplicable phenomenon, then finds rational methods steadily overwhelmed by oppressive folk-horror dread.
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MOVIE2010 1h 39m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1940 the entire town of Friar, 572 people, abandoned their town and walked into the wilderness with only the clothes on their backs after a viewing of ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)'', a film with which the entire town was obsessed. No one has ever been able to explain why they did this. Only 300 of the townspeople's bodies were recovered: some had frozen to death in the elements, while others were killed in horrific and bloody ways. The remaining 272 citizens were never found, and the government designated the trail that the townspeople took as classified. Despite this, the town was eventually repopulated, although the townspeople are cautious of the town's history.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michael Laurino
Teddy Barnes
Alex Draper
Walter Myrick
Cassidy Freeman
Erin Luger
Clark Freeman
Daryl Luger
Laura Heisler
Liv McCann
Lee Wilkof
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