Pun Salad

This 2011 movie was apparently only seen briefly in UK theatres and film festivals before its DVD release. But it's pretty good, a straightforward good-vs-evil thriller set in the Scottish highlands.

It starts out with 5 young adventurers (Alison, Ed, Jenny, Alex, and Rob) out for a vacation of mountain climbing and hiking. (Yes, they have mountains in the UK. They aren't very tall, but you can still get seriously killed if you fall off them.) Through sheer happenstance they discover a terrified young girl who's been buried in a plywood box in a remote forest. The kid doesn't speak English, but the group (correctly) surmises that she's a kidnap victim, they're all in peril, and they need to all get back to civilization as quickly as possible. Their trip is harrowing and suspenseful. Particularly nerve-wracking are the initial parts, where their pursuers are deadly and unseen.

It's not the greatest movie ever made, and there aren't any huge stars involved, but it held my interest all the way through. Sometimes movies like this have "why didn't they just" moments; this one either didn't have them, or things moved so quickly that I didn't have time to notice. There's a particularly good twist around the middle where one of the characters seems to be coming out as a cowardly weasel, but a few minutes later is revealed to be utterly heroic, above and beyond the call of duty.