Take a Trip Down the YellowBrickRoad Trailer

They went in search of 572 people that went missing down a wilderness trail 60 years ago, but they found … death! Okay, that’s a pretty shitty tagline. The filmmakers have a better one: “They were searching for an evil in the forest. . .but the forest found the evil in them.” Ooooh spooky. Here’s the trailer for Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton’s “YellowBrickRoad”. How do you know it’s scary? The title’s got three words, but they crammed it into one. That’s scary. P.S. for a moment there I thought this was going to be another faux documentary shot from a camera’s POV, but thank Goodness the trailer proved me wrong.

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.

Starring Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler, Alex Draper, Tara Giordano, Michael Laurino, Sam Elmore, and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton.

No word on a release date, but you can keep track of the movie via its official site.