PopHorror Let's Get Scared
Dying alone is a terrifying reality for thrill seekers and explorers. The film shows how quickly things can turn when you are a hundred miles from nowhere. Who would come to your rescue in the event of a serious accident? How would you react to a wild animal?To Die Alone makes you ponder all of this. It is a wild ride into what could happen if you face dying alone, in a hopeless circle.
Synopsis
After suffering a terrible injury while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Irving must find a way to escape the woods alive and confront her inner demons with the help of a stranger named Ford. Together they attempt to make it out of the wilderness alive.
Austin Smagalski directed the film. It stars Lisa Jacqueline Starett and James Tang.
The Rundown
Normally survival movies kind of bore me. It’s been done a thousand different ways and it gets tiresome. Instead, I mostly find myself watching documentaries about stories like this that actually happened. To Die Alone is on a different level. The film made me want to watch it. It spoke to me because it kept my interest. Though simple, the story packs a punch. The whole situation is a scary scenario that could easily happen. Being stuck and helpless terrifies me, probably why I don’t do much hiking. Knowing my luck I would get bit by a snake and be in this same position.
The starring duo doesn’t need another cast member. They played their parts perfectly. You could feel the emotion and the loss of hope as time goes on. To Die Alone packs a lot of punches, and though it was confusing at the end, it only took me one rewatch to figure out what was going on. The story is strong but leaves out bits of information you have to figure out for yourself.
Survival movies need a strong setting to make you say, “I would most likely die in this situation”. To Die Alone delivered on that need and filled our cups full of terrifying realities. What happens when you descend into madness in the middle of nowhere? The film gives a good deal of info on how that would happen. It delivered the ultimate fear to me. I have a lot of phobias, but thanks to To Die Alone, I have new trauma. One fear of mine has always been being involved in a tragic accident so I was always weary. I still raised hell in those woods, but that thought was always there.
In The End
I grew up in the woods, learned all the local trails and this was still a fear of mine. My friends and I traveled in packs just in case something out of the ordinary happened. Was it dangerous near the quarry? Of course, it was, but we did it anyway. To Die Alone gave me that adrenaline rush that ran off fear itself. Thanks to this film, I will have new vivid dreams of meeting my end alone and afraid.
This is what movies are supposed to do.
Reality can be terrifying and this film proves that fact. I will forever think twice about exploring, even in familiar places, you have to prepare for this type of emergency.
