Oh, dear lord, what did you do to your hair?!
When the old mother-in-law, stoned out of her gourd, collapses to the ground, shrieking you shouldn’t leave the path, the Swedish overlords in Draug (2018) would do well to take her counsel, no matter how much they’re spitting, seriously.
Too bad they don’t.
But when you’re searching for a missing missionary, deep in the forest, and the locals are terminally resentful of your superior societal position, well, one way or another you’re going to end up off the path. And off the path, there be monsters.
So, sure, we fight our way through the monsters, find the missionary, and we’re all set to head for home, except for that one wee question about the adoptee that one of the searchers brought with him: where’s she from, again? Why is she having visions?
And why don’t the monsters eat her? That’s the big question, and it would seem there’s one more monster out there, one that no one expected:
The one that started it all.
The captioning is a little annoying, and the humor a little rude (I cannot repeat the nickname for the mother-in-law on this blog), but the plot managed to stumble two steps further than I expected: but I’m still not sure why the survivor survived. Hint: it’s not who you’ll expect.
But the real question is whether the movie appeals enough for you to find out who wins out to the end.
