I was unclear at first if this was an actual documentary about a young man who went missing in the backwoods of Nevada, or a horror movie done up as a documentary. The answer is the latter, if you really want to know. They even tease the sequel, which I guess came out last year, at the very end.
Anyway, this guy George liked to go hiking far out in the middle of nowhere, alone, and one time, he doesn't come back. So most of the movie is recorded interviews with his roommate, his sister, the one news reporter, or the guy his sister hired to investigate when the cops wouldn't let her help.
So, there's some backstory, some video clips of George walking through train yards or talking to sheep he encounters in the middle of nowhere, interspersed with these interviews about the progress of the case. They found his truck, but not in a place he'd normally hike. There were bare footprints in the ground around the truck.
The movie hinges entirely on George being a secretive person. He never tells anyone where he's going when he leaves on these hikes. The private detective discovers George had met a man at some point, which doesn't factor into his disappearance, but does go towards the secretive nature. And most critically, he had a blog where he posted his videos, and no one in his immediate life knew about it until years later.
Which starts a wider search for a mysterious place he located on his penultimate hike. The place is not located (except maybe in the sequel?) but his video camera shows up. So the last twenty minutes are the grainy, grey-and-black video recording we've seen in movies ever since the Blair Witch Project. People running and hiding among trees in the dark of night, panicked breathing, quick glimpses of creepy people with sharp, pointy objects, abrupt ending.
On the plus side, only 80 minutes long, so I don't feel like I wasted too much of my life on it.
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