Touches You

Pretty Good

good back-story, and good acting

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

The movie is about a group of people who walk a trail and go missing, so another group of people walk the trail to find out what happened. Pretty simple plot. However despite the movie being laid out as a horror, there really is no narrative. No story line as such. It is more a metaphorical look at how we constantly strive to reach the unattainable. There is not a lot of focus on the script, instead the score provides more insight into what the characters are going through and it works well. I had a hard time rating this movie, I really loved what they were trying to do but I felt it was missing a little something. Perhaps because the ending felt a little unrewarding. Definitely worth the watch if you like something a little different, but not for everybody.

Seriously nothing happens. First two thirds of this film are pointless, then just as it started to get slightly better it finishes (sort of) This movie had the potential to be pretty good and to be something different but it was so dull that I really don't know how I made it to the end. Let's say something about the end... Mmmmm how about the fact that there isn't one! Irritating music, irritating acting, irritating characters and a really really poorly thought through "ending" that didn't tie up anything or reach any sort of conclusion. In short save the hour and a half of your life for something better... There are so many better films out there

If you liked Blair Witch Project (1999) they told me then you should watch Yellow Brick Road. So I did and at the end, so far no flick has beaten Blair Witch and this flick here doesn't do it neither.When in the '40's a whole town's, Friar, population disappeared it was never explained why and the road towards it was closed by the cops until the moment that an official expedition is out to find what happened with that particular town. Once in the woods they do hear a song, they recognize it, it's from Wizard Of Oz (1939). But the music becomes louder and louder and slowly they all go insane. It even goes that far that one girl is being killed by a member. That's the best part of this flick.What this flick is really about is screaming and yelling and crying and eating berries let that be what happens for almost the whole flick. Sure they all are going to die somehow but I found it rather boring. The sounds of Blair Witch did work and gave it an eery atmosphere but here it didn't work. The long walk in the wood isn't interesting enough to keep you watching it, I understand a lot of geeks will turn it off. And then there's of course the ending. You love it or you hate it it's just surreal. Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

I originally made this post in the comments over at weirdfictionreview.com but thought I'd add an updated version here in hopes of creating an analysis thread for anyone that wants to contribute. This movie is up on Netflix right now (May 2013), so I urge all horror fans to go check it out, as it's one of the most disturbing films on there.*****YellowBrickRoad is a gem of a horror film. No movie has really stayed with me (read: disturbed me) this much since the original Hostel. If you're a fan of the genre you owe it to yourself to check it out. That said, there are indeed a lot of pieces that remain unexplained, but I'll offer my take on some of these things in hopes there is some discussion about it (there is not a whole lot of analysis online about this film).The ending: I've noticed that this seems to be the most polarizing aspect of the film for viewers; the ending is somewhat open-ended and that is hard for many people to take. Ultimately, the movie theater scene is indeed a reflection of the pre-war era the disappeared townsfolk lived in (the countdown has an emergency broadcast system alert sound, the burnt landscape is that of a bomb ravaged landscape). But the point may have been that the road started and ended at the movie theater. It could suggest the mindset of the townsfolk in the 40's, which are that all roads lead to destruction, and such destruction is caused by no one but ourselves. So in some ways, this is a commentary on man and his role in war as a tool for self-destruction.The record theme: the group hears music throughout, but at some points, as the volume increases, the sound skips like a needle skipping on a record. Daryl, the map-making brother, states at one point that the landscape is a spiral and that they were heading toward an epicenter. This is not unlike a vinyl record; in this case the landscape reflects the grooves on such a record. It seems to me that if we visualize the group walking across a giant vinyl record with a needle on it, the music would get louder as they approach the needle, and if they interrupt the needle (like a piece of dust might do on the surface of a record), the sound will skip. So it's almost as if they were working their way toward the center of a giant record on a player. Another suggestion of the vinyl metaphor: just before the insane leg scene, Daryl keeps asking his sis "is it scratched?" — a big concern with vinyl records. When a record gets scratched, it is never the same — following this critical turning point in the film, no one in the group is the same.The hat: my guess is that the hat is what drove Daryl insane ahead of the others. It's clear that some kind of spirit(s) exist in the forest, some of them likely those of the townsfolk. So the hat could act as a conduit, or an express route to insanity.The gloved hand dragging the body away: correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the red coat and white gloves the uniform that the flying monkeys wear in Wizard of Oz? If so, this suggests that the malicious spirits in the forest (maybe a wicked witch?) playing the music were some kind of siren song, created in order to draw the townsfolk in and devour their souls (or whatever malicious spirits do). Since Wizard of Oz was an town-wide obsession, the malicious spirit figured that embodying the music and characters from WOO would be the best bait to get everyone up there. The townsfolk probably thought they had found their path to the Emerald City when the heard the music, and they made a beeline for it. Unfortunately it was just a ruse by the witch.There is also a possibility that everyone was having a group hallucination based on consuming berries, and everything was imagined, much like Dorothy wakes up at the end of Wizard of Oz only to discover it was all a dream. The hallucination theory is also similar to Alice in Wonderland, to which I think some of YellowBrickRoad's themes owe to.Would love to hear other interpretations of this. Anyone agree or disagree?