Quoted from Electric Dreamer Rick, I watched this tonight, it's quite the intricate tale. Despite devolving into a scream fest at the end, I was impressed with its ambition. It's more focused on telling a story than manufacturing scares. The litter critters reminded me of the forest spirits in "Mononoke no Hime". Thanks for the recommend. Regards, E.D.

Glad you found it worth your time. I do think it's worth watching from a writing/filmmaking point of view. Leaves you with a feeling there's more to be got out of the format, even if it's not perfect.

The same director has done a few decent horrors. He's done a couple of other found footage ones...Shirome (not so good) and Occult...which is decent as well.

Quoted from Dreamscale Mo, Yellowbrick Road is streaming on Netflix.  If you don't have Netflix, get it.  If you enjoy watching movies, and spend money renting movies at a video store, you'll fall in love with Netflix and save yourself a shitload of cash in the process.

I'd love to Jeff but it's not available in Australia. I think the last time I checked was two years ago and they're giving me the same response.
"Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country... yet"

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films You're a harsh man James!

Been hearing this a lot lately. I must be doing something right.

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films That particular genre is at it's highest ever point at the moment! Does that mean we've been inundated with classics? No...but it's only really been going since Blair Witch...as a separate, standard genre.

I wouldn't say we've been inundated with classics either. But I do think a few of these films have been put up on pedestals.

I wouldn't say the genre's all that separate from Blair Witch though. The movement is. But Blair Witch really isn't that structurally different from these newer ones. Even Cannibal Holocaust shares a lot of similar traits.

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films Man Bites Dog from 1992 is probably the only "classic" the genre has ever had.

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Now I have egg on my face. This one, I actually did think was quite well done. I haven't seen it in years though.

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films It's largely bound to be a low standard genre, all things considered, because people turn to it when they've got no money to make a standard film.

I disagree. I think the writing is primarily to blame for most of these films, especially The Poughkeepsie Tapes.

Quoted from Dreamscale I was very disappointed with Yellowbrick Road.  It had a few moments, and also potential, but for me, it was very dull, uneventful, and poorly executed.

I'm watching this right now. Almost one hour in. So far my opinion is that this is a cheap ass looking movie. Ugly looking film with ugly people and a sloooooow moving story. Even the sound is bad. I'll watch it to the end though because my add tells me I have to.  

Pia, when you're done, you owe it to yourself to watch Trespass.  Make sure you drink heavily though first and throughout.  Check out my review if you're doubting it.  What a movie...damn...how do they do it?  What an instant classic....or is that Vlassic pickle?

Now these people have sex too...how weird after what they've just been through!

Jeff, if Blackout and Finders Keepers end up on NetFlix....I worry that people will say the same about those.  

Pia, Trespass is a $35 Million picture.  You'll love it!!!

Checked out Yellowbrickroad, although I thought it was a found footage film because it was mentioned here.     

I'd agree with most of the assesments here that while it had a promising premise, it fell apart during act 2.  The music playing in the woods was creepy at first, but quickly got annoying to the point where I wanted to stop watching.  Talk about stomping an idea into the ground.  And the ending was like a bad twist out of the Twilight Zone.  I had the feeling at times that there wasn't even much of a script here and they were all just winging it as they went along.

It did have a couple of shocks, but one of the real problems was that I just didn't care about any of these characters.  Boring people caught in an annoying situation.

But getting back to found footage, anyone ever seen The St. Francisville Experiment?  Now there's my vote for worst found footage film ever.

Gonna take a peak at yellowbrick road today. Anyone else see Megan is Missing? That fucking Shelton brought it up. As far as found footage goes, it's really not that bad. Although, they claim it was too shocking for most audiences. They should read some of the scripts here.

James

Megan is Missing was okay. Not exactly shocking IMO. Yellow Brick Road was bad on all levels.

YellowbrickRoad was much better than Trespass at least.

I actually thought the ending to Megan is Missing was pretty disturbing. But totally unmerited and for a film that tried so hard to be realistic, it kinda made the whole thing fall apart. They would've never included that stuff in a real documentary. Unfortunately, without the ending, the film's pretty dull and without any sort of "payoff."

So a mixed bag for me.

Can someone please explain the ending to Yellowbrick Road?


Phil

I took the ending to mean that Teddy was in Hell.  The theater was hell, and the horror movie playing before him was his to watch for all eternity.  The usher says something to the effect of "there are many different endings", meaning each person winds up with their own version of the movie.

Another possible explanation for the overall bizarre-ness of the story is that Teddy was dead from the beginning.  Remember the early scene when he walks into that strange office and he's all alone except for the clerk behind the clouded glass.  The clerk inexplicably hands him that stack of info on the town and says, "enjoy your picture show."  The movie usher says the exact same thing at the end.

If that was the premise of the film, I think they could have found a much better way to execute it.  I just found the whole damn thing annoying.

Quoted from nawazm11 I'd love to Jeff but it's not available in Australia. I think the last time I checked was two years ago and they're giving me the same response. "Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country... yet"

Mohammad FYI, not sure where you're living in Oz but you should check out Quickflix - YellowBrickRoad is avail on it... least in Sydney it is. Similar deal to Netflix in US and a lot of titles you won't find in your average DVD store.