- streaming on Netflix.  Check it out…

YellowBrickRoad - (review taken from the MyCastleofQuiet Blog)In the canon of tales that describe or depict a theoretical journey, such as Barbet Schroeder’s film La Vallee, Tarkovsky’s Stalker, or Rene Daumal’s great, unfinished novel Mont Analogue, YellowBrickRoad stands as an intelligent, complex, horror version of such a tale. A group of experienced hikers and friends decide to attempt to duplicate the journey of a group of New Hampshire townsfolk, who, 70 years earlier, set out on a trail called the Yellow Brick Road, many never to be heard from again, while a great many others turned up brutally murdered. Five days into their expedition, they start to hear a distant, prevalent music, that seems to come from everywhere around them, an endless cavalcade of pre-WWII hits echoing through the forest. The music has different effects on each individual, creating torment in some, dependency in others. Psychological breakdowns occur, and things go from very bad to much, much worse. In stories such as these, the “destination” becomes an individual experience for each explorer, the getting there being of equal significance to whatever “Oz” colors their eventual demise. As one character says towards the end of the film, “there are many endings.” Highly recommended.