Review – The Shrine

Sorry, Eastern Europe. If it’s a choice between young Americans from the East Coast getting murdered for daring to venture into Poland or Romania or getting murdered for daring to venture into the Midwest, it’s a relief to see folks on the other side of the Atlantic take the hillbilly hit for a change. Reporters searching for a missing teen stumble across an eerie patch of stationary fog in the middle of nowhere. In the misty depths sits a statue of a demon. Sadly, nothing that happens afterward is either surprising or scary. If only they’d opted to stick with unexplained spookiness rather than devolving into splatter. But judging by the general quality of the script, acting and directing, making a smart horror movie wasn’t an option. See if desperate