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Follow The YellowBrickRoad!

UPDATE: According to their official facebook, YellowBrickRoad will receive a small theatrical release June 1, followed by a DVD release about a month after.

I’m sorry, but that had to be my post title when addressing a movie called YellowBrickRoad. YellowBrickRoad is an upcoming horror film due for some sort of release June 1, 2011. Produced by Points NorthFilms, the film is written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton. Starring Cassidy Freeman (Smallville), Anessa Ramsey (Footloose remake), Laura Heisler (Sucker Punch original short), and Alex Draper (Mimic 2), this indie film was created on a budget of half a million dollars. Are you wondering what the plot is already? Well, here you go!

“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.”

Very interesting. Seems like a mix of Blair Witch Project and maybe even an X-Files type plot. Watch the trailer for yourself at the official site here. As I mentioned before, the release date says June 1, 2011, but it isn’t specific whether it will be VOD, theatres, DVD, or through the site, etc. I’ll make sure to do a follow up when I get this information.

Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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