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Excellent adaptation.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I saw a lot of horror movies in my life and this one will not be remembered. There is nothing really special about it. The actors are actually not bad at all, like you see them sometimes in B-movies, but the story is just not good enough to make you uncomfortable or scared. And that's what a horror movie is all about, no? I found the music irritable after a while. Maybe that was the point of the movie, but for me it just didn't work. All in all I thought this was a disappointing movie. It could have been much better if there was a little bit more explanation and for sure another better ending. I won't watch it again, that's for sure.

I was really looking forward to seeing this film as an avid horror film fan but I was extremely disappointed. It definitely isn't a horror film as there is no suspense build up or much of a story line at all. The whole movie was terrible and I don't know how some people have rated it so high unless they worked on the film! The ending was also awful with no real explanation of why any of if had happened. I wish that I hadn't bothered watching it. I didn't like any of the characters that much as you weren't given any background information on them and none of them had ant real personality to relate to they were all pretty boring. Definitely needed to explain the storyline better as it never actually said what was behind it all.

In 1940, the residents of Friar, New Hampshire walked up a mountain road. They were not seen again. The film starts with a recreation of part of the Army's subsequent investigation. In 2008, the coordinates of the trail head are declassified. A group bands together to investigate the incident.The group is well equipped. They bring a six wheeled vehicle of some sort, multiple cameras, a high-quality sextant, GPS, compasses, maps, tents, and all manner of other things.After the music and the noise starts, things start to go downhill. About the same time, the compasses start to wobble or spin. The GPS gives wildly variable and always false readings. The noise is intermittent and so loud that hands-over-the-ears is not enough to keep it from being debilitating. Their two-way radios become unreliable.After one of the men kills Erin over a hat, the sanity of the group just drops off a cliff. They cannot agree on a way back, since their travel notes are gibberish. They split into smaller groups. One character jumps to her death. One character implores a woman companion to kill him; she eventually snaps his neck after he tells her how to do it. A man kills himself after filming a good-bye. Early on, their is a scene about the dangers of nightshade. Later a character commits suicide using nightshade.Does anyone survive? Does anyone figure out the mystery that instigated the trek? Watch for the final seconds after the closing credits; a few images (supposedly) from the Army investigation are shown.------Scores------Cinematography: 5/10 Often OK, but has shaky cam now and then.Sound: 0/10 Huge dynamic range, which is quite irritating. Make that worse than irritating. To hear its meaningless conversations, one needs to turn the sound up. A lot. To avoid breaking the speakers, or getting a visit from the cops, one needs to turn the sound down, down, down. The sound alone renders this film a failure.Acting: 3/10 I liked Cassidy Freeman's (Smallville) performance fairly well. I cannot say the same for the rest of the cast. The +3 is for Ms Freeman alone.Screenplay: 0/10 Pointless. Was the original purpose of the expedition achieved? Not even remotely. Did the dead characters gain any enlightenment before death? No. The ending was just one more fall into insanity.

I originally made this post in the comments over at weirdfictionreview.com but thought I'd add an updated version here in hopes of creating an analysis thread for anyone that wants to contribute. This movie is up on Netflix right now (May 2013), so I urge all horror fans to go check it out, as it's one of the most disturbing films on there.*****YellowBrickRoad is a gem of a horror film. No movie has really stayed with me (read: disturbed me) this much since the original Hostel. If you're a fan of the genre you owe it to yourself to check it out. That said, there are indeed a lot of pieces that remain unexplained, but I'll offer my take on some of these things in hopes there is some discussion about it (there is not a whole lot of analysis online about this film).The ending: I've noticed that this seems to be the most polarizing aspect of the film for viewers; the ending is somewhat open-ended and that is hard for many people to take. Ultimately, the movie theater scene is indeed a reflection of the pre-war era the disappeared townsfolk lived in (the countdown has an emergency broadcast system alert sound, the burnt landscape is that of a bomb ravaged landscape). But the point may have been that the road started and ended at the movie theater. It could suggest the mindset of the townsfolk in the 40's, which are that all roads lead to destruction, and such destruction is caused by no one but ourselves. So in some ways, this is a commentary on man and his role in war as a tool for self-destruction.The record theme: the group hears music throughout, but at some points, as the volume increases, the sound skips like a needle skipping on a record. Daryl, the map-making brother, states at one point that the landscape is a spiral and that they were heading toward an epicenter. This is not unlike a vinyl record; in this case the landscape reflects the grooves on such a record. It seems to me that if we visualize the group walking across a giant vinyl record with a needle on it, the music would get louder as they approach the needle, and if they interrupt the needle (like a piece of dust might do on the surface of a record), the sound will skip. So it's almost as if they were working their way toward the center of a giant record on a player. Another suggestion of the vinyl metaphor: just before the insane leg scene, Daryl keeps asking his sis "is it scratched?" — a big concern with vinyl records. When a record gets scratched, it is never the same — following this critical turning point in the film, no one in the group is the same.The hat: my guess is that the hat is what drove Daryl insane ahead of the others. It's clear that some kind of spirit(s) exist in the forest, some of them likely those of the townsfolk. So the hat could act as a conduit, or an express route to insanity.The gloved hand dragging the body away: correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the red coat and white gloves the uniform that the flying monkeys wear in Wizard of Oz? If so, this suggests that the malicious spirits in the forest (maybe a wicked witch?) playing the music were some kind of siren song, created in order to draw the townsfolk in and devour their souls (or whatever malicious spirits do). Since Wizard of Oz was an town-wide obsession, the malicious spirit figured that embodying the music and characters from WOO would be the best bait to get everyone up there. The townsfolk probably thought they had found their path to the Emerald City when the heard the music, and they made a beeline for it. Unfortunately it was just a ruse by the witch.There is also a possibility that everyone was having a group hallucination based on consuming berries, and everything was imagined, much like Dorothy wakes up at the end of Wizard of Oz only to discover it was all a dream. The hallucination theory is also similar to Alice in Wonderland, to which I think some of YellowBrickRoad's themes owe to.Would love to hear other interpretations of this. Anyone agree or disagree?