The story, continuity and acting was good throughout. My one major complaint was that yet again underage sex is promoted in a PG14 movie. I am talking about where Chloe who is 16 and Tim who is clearly well over 21 made out in the tent. I find this trend very troubling. Why do all these PG13 or 14 movies keep doing that? Is that necessary? How about they make movies where a 15 year old gets pregnant and how it affects her and people around her? Otherwise this movie was very good. I rarely give stars to movies. But this one gets seven stars. Docked 3 points for what I said beforehand.

Chloe and Mackenzie are high school friends who go hiking after Chloe's dad dies. They hook up with some random guys near the campsite and Mackenzie comes back home ALONE! What happened to Chloe? That's what her mother and aunt want to know. Good script and acting filmed in beautiful Manitoba! Recommended!

Young Chloe Baker loved going on camping trips with her father James. Sadly, he died of a heart attack on one of their trips. Now, a year later, Chloe revisits the site where he died, but she will experience a genuine trial of her own.

Chloe must do battle with all the elements of nature after tumbling into a ravine off Amnesty Ridge in Wolf Cry State Park. But her greater nemeses are actually her bestie MacKenzie Brown and her deranged father Pete.

The filmmakers were successful in developing a taut drama after Chloe and MacKenzie head into the heart of darkness in the Wolf Cry State Park. Their purpose is to play a game of 72 in which they are to survive in the wilderness for 72 hours without informing family members about their whereabouts.

But the true colors of MacKenzie emerge when Chloe hooks up with Tim while his buddy Zach is completely turned off by MacKenzie. One thing leads to another, and MacKenzie pushes Chloe off the cliff and into the ravine, then returns home and says nothing to Chloe's frantic mother Shannon.

The most problematic character in the film is Pete Brown, who tries to cover for his daughter, even if it means murder. Much of the film focuses on Shannon's struggle to locate her daughter. But Pete then becomes a copycat of his bratty daughter's action when he attempts to push Shannon into the same ravine where Chloe is now writhing in agony.

As much of a stretch as it was to find Pete's character credible, the screenplay was still successful in integrating the flashback scenes and in portraying the undying love of a mother for her daughter.

Early in the film, we learn that Chloe's Aunt Ella was fond of using the word "catastrophizing" to describe the propensity to imagine the worst of possible outcomes. But nothing can compare to the near catastrophic experience of her niece in the confines of Wolf Cry State Park.