The Trek begins with a young recently married couple set out on a 'honeymoon' hike in the woods. Kim (Erin Fleming) and Keith (Brett Hundley) are a great pair, as acknowledged by their family in true-crime documentary flashbacks narrated by an Unsolved Mysteries-style Trent Haaga. We're shown the last place the couple was known to have been. What we don't know is what happened to Kim and Keith. But we're about to find out.
After about 30 minutes of getting to know Kim and Keith Russell, through their family and friends, and through watching them hold hands, eat apples and backpack around the California Hills, a strange-looking woman comes out of the woods and approaches their tent. She looks like a hairy fat guy in a loin cloth with a deformed face and sagging boobs. The she-beast walks over to Keith and pinches his cheek like an old woman would do to a tiny baby. This enrages Keith and he is overcome with the need to protect himself and his wife, so he does what any good husband would... He unnecessarily bashes her head in with a stick repeatedly until she is dead.
Kim is appalled at how Keith reacted, and she can't understand his need to kill the woman. Keith isn't really sure he understands either, but from the particularly happy grin on his face while he did it, we know that he liked it. Moments later the Neanderthal's mate stumbles out of the woods and chases down Keith and Kim to get his revenge. He captures Kim and knocks Keith out in the process. Apparently, there is a race of primitive cave-dwelling Neanderthals living in this forest not very far from civilization who have never been discovered.
When Keith comes to he makes another great decision and does what anyone who's wife was just captured by a caveman would do. He cuts off the face and tits of the not-quite-dead-yet cavewoman, wears them and goes to the Neanderthal's lair to save Kim. What follows is a series of unfortunate events which include mutilation, a severed penis-rape and lots of blood. After all of this the viewer is left with a lot of unanswered questions and unexplained occurences, which is never a good thing.
The Trek as a whole fails miserably. The film focuses more on the effects and visuals than on the characters, leaving you with a plot, or lack thereof, that is stretched thin to allow for cool special effects. Not to mention the constant annoying cutting back and forth between the film and the true-crime documentary footage. Steer clear of this turd at all costs.
Review by Brad
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