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2003 horror movie directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa.

Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.

This movie provides examples of:

• Abandoned Area
• A House Divided
• Cruel and Unusual Death
• Dead All Along
• Developing Doomed Characters
• Don't Go in the Woods
  • Stay on the Path
• Enemy Rising Behind
• Fantastic Aesop About falling asleep at the wheel
• Final Girl
• Going In Circles
• Gory Discretion Shot & take our word for it, by your powers combined, I am Narm
• Infant Immortality Subverted
• Jump Scare
• Michael Jacksons Thriller Parody
• Offscreen Teleportation
• Or Was It a Dream?
• Psychological Torment Zone
• Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Mostly lurks on the horror side, but bounces into comedy at unexpected moments.
• Someone to Remember Him By Though she knew she was pregnant beforehand
• Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
• Too Dumb to Live Masturbating and smoking pot while your family is lost in the woods is a good way to end up on the wrong end of the morality scale
• Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb

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