It probably won't make you pee but check out The Legend of Sorrow Creek

The Legend of Sorrow Creek starts on a somewhat sour note with a couple of less than inspired performances in the set up, but I recommend you hang with it until the four leads arrive bringing the project up to speed. It is here the quiet little ghost story develops some truly good creeps that show a lot of promise from writer/director Penning, and his cast of newcomers. The best scares have always come from that which you can't see and Penning has chosen to exploit the obvious. By simply making the most of the limited funds he had, the viewer is taken in, and forced to imagine the worst case scenario in their head. Nothing that can be created by effects can ever outdo the horrors one is capable of conjuring in their own mind! Don't get me wrong though because there are plenty of creepy visuals and some quality bloodletting as well.

After having been away for fifteen years, Kayla (Freya Ravensbergen) and Jesse (Christina Caron) have decided to return to their Grandfathers remote cabin in the wilderness of New England. Along for the ride are Dean (Matt Turner) and his friend Tobe (Jon Deitcher). The foursome are anticipating relaxation and some fishing and hiking when Tobe gets injured and the friends find themselves taking a fatal shortcut through the woods in an effort to get to a first aid kit. On their detour the group inadvertently stirs up spirits that were best left to rest!

The woods are haunted here, cursed by an incident that occurred many years ago. In many ways this is The Blair Witch Project taken up a notch and filled in with more detail as the four friends try to discover the source of the terrifying incidents that have them trapped in a situation that gets worse by the moment.

Separating innocently enough, the group leaves Jesse behind in the odd little patch of woods that they are walking through. She wants to do a rubbing on a tree that appears to have been carved into many years ago. Many hours pass and the sun goes down but Jesse does not come back. As they wait they try to come up with a plan of action when suddenly the phone rings and Kayla hears Jesse crying for help. The sun is down and the woods are dark and the phone here has been disconnected for years! The tone has been set and the players find themselves pawns of a force beyond they're comprehension.

This is a very small movie from a first time director and a largely inexperienced cast; it suffers from some limitations because of this. The pacing drags a bit which distracts from the urgency required to make it truly frightening. The production value is fairly strong given the effective location the director chose but it frays at the edges just a bit giving away a little of the suspense when it occasionally ebbs in consistency. The overall product however is quite impressive and features some genuinely creepy moments one would expect from a much larger budgeted production. My recommendation is this, if you are a fan of Ghost pictures and stand in the pro Blair Witch camp, I strongly urge you to seek this one out I think you will have fun with it. On the other hand if you only enjoy pictures with a slick professional gloss on its ghosts you might want to pass on this.