The Devil's Ground

8/25/2023

**_College youths take a wrong turn in the sticks of northwest PA_** A woman from California traveling through the back roads of Pennsylvania (Daryl Hannah) picks up a traumatized female, who was part of a student archeological team from Boston. The youths were interested in the local Indian burial grounds whereupon they discover some of the remains are quite recent. What’s going on? Released in 2009, “The Devil’s Ground”, aka “The Cycle,” is a backwoods slasher in the “Wrong Turn” mold with some nods to the “Friday the 13th” flicks, i.e. a hulking masked assailant in the woods with a machete. Without giving away vital revelations in the last act, the story comes down to a toxic waste, bitter yokels and some mysterious crows. The Indian burial ground functions simply to attract t