Nakani

This film is not what I expected walking into the auditorium. With all of the new horror films coming out going into the fall, I was expecting more of that. Take a group of people and have a monster pick them off one by one in new and creative (and probably disgusting ways) right?

Wrong. Nakani is not that film.

Its a story of circumstances that take us completely out our comfort zone and drop us into something totally unfamiliar, and malevolent. An almost nightmarish descent into the obscure, the unfamiliar and the horrible.

It had an excellent and sustained tone and feel that was completely about what really scares us. The unknown.

Being lost in the forest is frightening enough. But when you add an undefinable threat into that fear it gets amplified tenfold. There is something there, just out of view, hiding in the dark, and it wants to hurt you. That's Nakani.

The dismal atmosphere, and tension wearing down on the characters, and the complete lack of solutions is what makes this film work. The sense of dangerous mystery that is consistantly following makes the hair on the back your neck stand up.

I won't explain what Nakani is, but its something that everyone hopes they will never encounter. Something inside that assignes blame, and executes judgement.

I thought this movie was boring and confusing. It wasn't really scary until the very end, and you don't even get to see the creature!

Did I miss something? I was watching a bunch of hikers get lost in the dark after being told not to go into the woods by a bunch of indians.

It was too dark and looks like it was filmed with an old Nokia phone.