Those who travel down LOST GULLY ROAD face greater dangers than going stir crazy on Umbrella Entertainment's all-region PAL DVD.

Lucy (THE CODE's Adele Perovic) travels deep into the countryside to stay in an isolated cottage; but she is not there for peace an quiet. She is cut off from all contact with the outside world but for her sister Cassie (Eloise Mignon) on a burner phone due to the unwanted and violent attentions of a man whose relationship with her is otherwise unspecified. As the days and nights pass, she is going stir crazy in the company of mother nature, and she starts to suspect that the scratching on her roof is not a possum. Is it the man she has been running from - against her sister's wishes, she has turned on her own phone to check her messages - or the strange shopkeeper (John Brumpton, ROMPER STOMPER), or something more unnatural; after all, her (PRISONER: CELL BLOCK H's Jane Clifton) told her that "the house looks after itself."

Less of a horror movie for most of its running time than an extended study of mood and character, LOST GULLY ROAD cannot help but disappoint after such a steady buildup in which we not only share the protagonist's increasing frustration but also begin to suspect along with her that her sister's constant instructions to wait and not to turn on her phone might be motivated by something other than concern for her (or that they may be not so much hiding her from the man in her life but planning on doing something to him with her out of the way). The horror aspect is technically well-executed but the ending feels more like a punchline than a shocking reveal.