YellowBrickRoad
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  • Summary: One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No One knows why. A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar's evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for. Over the years, a quiet cover-up operation managed to weave the story of Friar into the stuff of legends and backwoods fairy tales. The town has slowly repopulated, but the vast wilderness is mostly untracked, with the northern-most stretches off limits to local hunters and loggers. In 2008, the coordinates for the "YELLOWBRICKROAD" trail head were declassified. The first official expedition into a dark and twisted wilderness will attempt to solve the mystery of the lost citizens of Friar...and reach the end of the trail. (Bloody Disgusting)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    May 31, 2011
    70
    Underwhelming finish explains zilch, but good performances, atmospherics and use of backwoods locations make Yellowbrickroad an intriguing cipher.
  2. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    May 31, 2011
    63
    This is still a most original take on the consequences of following your own "yellowbrickroad" when you don't know, for sure, that there's an Oz at the end of it.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Brian Miller
    May 31, 2011
    50
    The film is caught in the fatal demographic desert between the "Scream" and "Baghead" crowds - neither funny nor quirky enough to sustain interest during its long march.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    Jun 2, 2011
    25
    A letdown despite its intriguing premise.

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