Fern is finished with the military (15 yrs Army) and comes home to her dead father's house in the Ozarks. She says she is only going to be there long enough to connect with her brother Billy. But she is warned that deep into the woods are dangers. One day in the woods, she comes across Cecil, a young boy who says he has no family. He is very polite and has quite a bit of knowledge for a young child. She lets Cecil stay, and works with a social worker to try and locate his family. Meanwhile, she is on a quest to connect with Billy, and when she does, finds that Billy really hates her and wants nothing to do with her. That doesn't discourage her. However, she seems to be getting sick, and the local doctor implies it is due to Cecil. That Cecil is a child of the woods, and he takes the health away from another and gets stronger by doing so, a Tatterdemalion. And Fern suffers from PTSD, so her functioning level is not all that great, and everything points to Cecil being exactly that. But is that really the situation, or is that all folklore? The movie is hampered by some really bad plot holes and errors that simply did not have to be there, but stick out too sharply to be ignored. It is not a horror movie. It is more a mystery movie.
Review of Lost Child
