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A group consisting of paramedics, police officers, and criminals are targeted in the woods following an ambulance crash in Ditched. Melina (Marika Sila) is a paramedic, who comes to following an ambulance with a cloudy memory about what happened. The only other person conscious is Franson (Kris Loranger), who is tied to a gurney and quickly reveals himself to be a dangerous criminal. However, Melina is soon joined by Officer Revesz (J. Lindsay Robinson) and fellow paramedics Jake (Declan O'Reilly) and Aiden (Lee Lopez), with another criminal named Sideburns (Reamonn Joshee) locked up in the police cruiser. However, the group soon learns that they are not alone, as they are targeting by a hunting party, lead by Caine (Mackenzie Gray), who have individual reasons for killing everyone off. Ditched is a horror film by writer/director Christopher Donaldson about a group stranded in the woods, who are targeted by a group of camouflaged vigilantes. Over the course of the film, we learn that each of these killers has a personal vendetta against either the criminals, police, or paramedics. However, protagonist Melina believes that this group is mistaken and all she wants is to get back home to her daughter. In probably one of the greatest examples of style-over-substance gone awry, Ditched has a very ugly-looking combination of coloured lighting, dark smoke-filled woods, and lens flares galore. The plot itself isn't particularly that pleasant, with bad acting and over-the-top extreme gore just for the sake of it. I don't know what the ultimate message of Ditched is trying to say, but it's one nasty piece of work that I was not at all a fan of. Post Mortem is streaming beginning on October 15th, 2021 as part of the virtual 2021 Toronto After Dark Film Festival Related Links Hot Docs 2014: Out of Mind, Out of SightHot Docs 2013: NCR: Not Criminally ResponsibleWidowsReel Asian 2014: The Midnight AfterA Perfect Plan - Canadian Film Fest 2020

Ditched – Toronto After Dark 2021