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The premise of the recent low-budget indie horror film YellowBrickRoad (2010) is simple. In 1940, the entire population of a small town named Friar, New Hampshire, suddenly decided to walk into the wilderness. Most of the townsfolk froze to death or were torn apart by unknown perpetrators. In the present day, a group of researchers decides to follow the same trail, in the hope of turning legend into ‘recorded history’. However, within a few days, they find that despite all of their equipment and expertise, they are being changed by their time on the trail, and not for the better. As the tag line puts it, ‘They were searching for an evil in the forest… But the forest found the evil in them.’
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Murphy, B.M. (2013). Introduction: We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet. In: The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137353726_1
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