Dark Nature
Terreur Sauvage
4.472%12%4.9
Après avoir survécu à une relation abusive, Joy a besoin de se ressaisir. Toujours hantée par le souvenir de son ex six mois plus tard, elle est encouragée par sa meilleure amie Carmen à se rendre dans une retraite spirituelle pas comme les autres. En effet, il s’agit d’une randonnée dans les Rocheuses afin de confronter les traumatismes de chacune des participantes, qui incluent aussi Tara et Shaina. Le petit groupe est mené par Dre Dunnley, dont la spécialité est d’aider les survivantes à faire face à leurs démons. L’expédition en nature est supposée les aider à imaginer un avenir meilleur, mais Joy est mal à l’aise, craignant que son ex les ait suivies. Les femmes trouvent par ailleurs des articles ayant appartenu à d’autres randonneuses sur le sentier, en plus d’entendre des sons étranges...
jackmeat a rédigé une critique
14 décembre 2025•
My quick rating - 4.1/10. While recovering from an abusive relationship, Joy joins her friend's therapy group on an isolated mountainous retreat. Led by a doctor with experimental methods, the group is soon forced to confront a monstrous entity. I wouldn't have minded this one as much, but it took way too long to get going. The lead-up encompassed a ton of character building, which half the characters I couldn't have cared less about. But this is one of those movies where the "monster" also lives in their heads, so we were subjected to finding out what the group's fears were. If it wasn't tagged as horror and you got through the first hour, you really wouldn't have known that there actually was a creature hunting the group. In a way, it helps, but it needed a little more than dialogue to lead up to it since they more or less walked the same paths and made the exceptional scenery turn awfully boring real quick. I didn't recognize any of the cast in this one, but Hannah Emily Anderson did an adequate job being the battered woman who was just trying to put "him" in the rear-view mirror. In doing so, director Berkley Brady inadvertently made the film feel as though that would end up being the focal point, especially after an hour of bland dialogue, but after the creature does appear, we are entrenched in the fairly typical monster in the woods flick. I am not really sure what they were running from, but it was a bit unsettling to see. Practical effects are always welcome, and they were used sparingly while being effective. The violence itself is minor, so effects really weren't a big concern in this one. Nothing I would recommend hunting down, but you could find a worse way to spend 85 minutes. I doubt you would ever want to do it again. I know I won't revisit this one on purpose.
jackmeat a rédigé une critique
14 décembre 2025•
My quick rating - 4.1/10. While recovering from an abusive relationship, Joy joins her friend's therapy group on an isolated mountainous retreat. Led by a doctor with experimental methods, the group is soon forced to confront a monstrous entity. I wouldn't have minded this one as much, but it took way too long to get going. The lead-up encompassed a ton of character building, which half the characters I couldn't have cared less about. But this is one of those movies where the "monster" also lives in their heads, so we were subjected to finding out what the group's fears were. If it wasn't tagged as horror and you got through the first hour, you really wouldn't have known that there actually was a creature hunting the group. In a way, it helps, but it needed a little more than dialogue to lead up to it since they more or less walked the same paths and made the exceptional scenery turn awfully boring real quick. I didn't recognize any of the cast in this one, but Hannah Emily Anderson did an adequate job being the battered woman who was just trying to put "him" in the rear-view mirror. In doing so, director Berkley Brady inadvertently made the film feel as though that would end up being the focal point, especially after an hour of bland dialogue, but after the creature does appear, we are entrenched in the fairly typical monster in the woods flick. I am not really sure what they were running from, but it was a bit unsettling to see. Practical effects are always welcome, and they were used sparingly while being effective. The violence itself is minor, so effects really weren't a big concern in this one. Nothing I would recommend hunting down, but you could find a worse way to spend 85 minutes. I doubt you would ever want to do it again. I know I won't revisit this one on purpose.
