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At a reunion of sorts, six friends from back in high school - Andrea
(Hope Devaney), Mike (Troy Coward), Alice (Chloe Brown), Tim (Kyle James
Sargon), Scott (Daniel Berenger) and Arleen (Dominique Shenton) - go on a
hiking trip through the woods that's organized like a competitive
scavenger hunt. But it soon becomes clear that this isn't your ordinary
scavenger hunt when the clues become more and more macabre to gruesome.
And then Alice turns up dead, and from there our heroes know something's
up. And soon enough they have to realize that whoever has killed Alice is
also after them, especially when they see a video of one of their friends,
Eddie (Michael Rainone), who was also supposed to come, but who sends them
his farewell message, dying from multiple stab wounds. And soon enough,
our heroes find themselves on the run from a masked killer, and the fact
that they can't figure out among themselves how to best save themselves
while the killer seems to know all their steps in advance doesn't make
things much easier ... Now on a surface level, this film has
all the tried-and-true elements for a standard slasher, including a fairly
good-looking main cast of youngsters, a landscape with many unprotected
spots to get killet at, the tendency of the characters to split up, and of
course the almost mandatory dark secret that lies at the bottom of the
story. What makes this more than a formula slasher though is that it
pushes its mystery elements, and the scavenger hunt premise sure is the
perfect vehicle for this. And due to the heightened mystery element, the
film stays fresh and manages to surprise throughout and comes across as a
really nice genre ride.
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