Dark
Mountain (2013/MVD Visual
DVD)
Picture:
D Sound: D Extras: D Film: C+
Inspired
by a 'true story', the Lost Dutchman Mine is said to be somewhere in
the Arizona mountains with the largest and purest gold deposit ever
found. But legends say the mine is cursed, that those who have gone
in search of it have either died or never returned. In 2011, 3
filmmakers decide to make their mark to find and film the legendary
mine and to discover if the curse was real... 8 months later, their
camera and cell phones were found, but to this day their bodies have
been never recovered.
The
three young people, a girl, her boyfriend and their best friend, had
set out to see if they can find the legendary gold mine that is said
to be haunted. Strange lights appear, noise that can't be explained,
Indian burial grounds, UFO sighting, miners going mad and killing
each other. At first, they didn't believe, but then their equipment
starts failing one of them keeps waking up, walking in circles, not
remembering how they got there much less get out. Lost on a cursed
mountain, they realize these are the last days they will be alive.
If
there ever is a such thing as a curse, one thing you should never do
is taunt the curse. This film looked like there was 2 different
filming, one from the original film discovered from the lost camera
and cell phones, and a second from the second filming/re-enactment
explaining what happened to them. All the special effects, creepy
music were added on the second filming. It seem like all the new
cheap horror films are about sound effects and what you can't see is
more scary. So cheap, that the image and sound is some of the worst
of some bad releases I've suffered through n a while.
There
are no extras.
-
Ricky Chiang
