While hiking in a remote forest, college student Zack disappears, leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom. Now a year later and plagued by nightmares, Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny in a last attempt to find out what happened to his friend. Following a trail of dead bodies, each one bearing a bleeding scar, Tom and Jenny soon find themselves unraveling a string of cryptic secrets and caught in an intense struggle not only for their sanity, but their survival.Everyone in the small town seems to have a secret and when the dreaded scar suddenly appears on Jenny, the two race to find out what evil dwells in the woods.
Acting
Dee Wallace elevates garbage material like always
Practical Effects
The scar effects slap harder than the script deserves
Sound
That forest noise design genuinely unnerves
Director
Rahil Bhorania
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Rahil Bhorania's only feature; he pivoted to tech entrepreneurship, which honestly tracks.
The 'bleeding scar as curse' device pulls from European folklore about sin made visible—fitting for a movie about repressed small-town secrets.
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