Phoenix Forgotten Page #6

Synopsis: Phoenix Forgotten tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. They disappeared that night, and were never seen again. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of their disappearance, unseen footage has finally been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition. For the first time ever, the truth will be revealed.
Director(s): Justin Barber
Production: Cinelou Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.2
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
PG-13
Year:
2017
87 min
$3,599,570
Website
128 Views


And... that's pretty much it. Petroglyphs.

Please be careful.

- You get that?

- Yeah.

- It look steep?

- Yeah.

You guys are idiots.

Ah, I should not have smoked that cigarette.

Whoa.

How far do you want us to go, Josh?

Just keep going.

I'm wheezing. I'm out of breath.

Whoa.

- You rolling?

- Yeah.

Check this out. Oh, sh*t.

Where'd you get those?

Ask Diane Sawyer over there.

I got it from a guy at the gas station.

Here. He had a crush on you or something.

I just used my eyes.

- Yeah. Dude, no, no. Do not film this.

- We have two more in here.

Is Josh filming this?

Whoa.

Will you please be as careful as possible

with that on a cliff edge.

Sorry.

- Where's Mark?

- He's taking a leak.

Oh, you didn't want to go with him?

Shut up.

- What are you doing?

- It's my turn to interview you.

- This is...

- See how you like it.

It's not a Hitchcock movie, you know.

The director isn't in this one.

You guys playing Truth or Dare up here?

- Want to play Truth or Dare?

- Yeah.

- You go first.

- You actually want to play?

- Yeah, why not?

- Come on.

- I've got a couple beers in me.

- Uh... dare.

Okay. I dare you to tell the truth.

That is not how you play the game.

- It's fair enough.

- That is how I play the game.

What's. uh... what's the deal

with you and Debbie Gomez?

De-Debbie Gomez?

Why?

Well, the old rumor mill's been, you know...

We hang out sometimes. Like, I don't...

You guys play tennis or go golfing?

Why are you being a dick, dude?

Like, we hang out.

- Like, it's not...

- Why didn't you invite her here?

I don't know. I didn't want to make it weird.

What do you mean, "make it weird"?

Why would that be weird?

I didn't want to make it like a double date.

- Wait, now that's weird.

- Oh, come on, man.

All right, we cannot stay here forever.

We need to go as soon as the sun dips down.

Just hold on and enjoy it

for a second, please.

I just want to get this. It's gorgeous.

- Josh.

- What?

- What is that?

- What?

- What?

- That.

No, no, what is that?

- Ashley.

- Whoa, what?

- Wait, Mark, isn't that... what?

- It's just kind of sitting there.

Wait,

isn't the Luke Air Force Base over there?

- Yeah.

- Maybe.

Probably just something

from the Air Force Base.

- Maybe a helicopter.

- You're the one looking for UFOs.

- No, that's not a helicopter.

- I'm just pointing it out.

We'd hear it if it was a helicopter.

Hold on.

- Wait. Okay, you guys.

- Think it's a fighter jet?

- No, that's not a fighter jet.

- Don't get ahead of yourself.

It's just a light.

It's not. You'd hear it, you'd hear it.

What? Oh, my God.

Okay. Okay.

Whoa!

- Holy sh*t!

- What!

Josh, did you get that?

Hold on.

Oh...

- What was that?

- I don't...

- wait, tell me you got that on camera.

- Yes!

Can you play that back?

- Oh, my God! Josh.

- Guys, stop, stop, stop.

- Wait, Josh, seriously though.

- This is the greatest day of my life.

Oh, my... did you know that was gonna happen?

Here, give me that back.

Did you know that was gonna happen?

Is Luke Air Force Base that way?

Luke Air Force Base is that way,

but that's not Air Force.

- How do you know?

- You don't know that.

Because it's not 2150.

Come back.

- All right, man.

- Twenty minutes.

Get like a last pan or whatever. Let's go.

Dude, come on. I'm happy for you, let's go.

- Just ten more minutes?

- You've done that twice.

Do you know how hard it's gonna be

to walk through this canyon in the dark?

I don't see what the problem is, okay?

- You know the way back.

- It's already dark.

The problem is that it starts

to get really dark and really cold,

and she has a curfew,

and I still have to drive.

- Please.

- Come on.

Cut. We gotta go.

All right, we're leaving.

What if we get arrested by,

like, the Air Force or something?

That would actually be

the scariest situation.

Like our parents don't ever find out,

like, what's going to happen to us.

The Air Force just takes us away

or something.

That'd be so sad.

My mom would think I was just

in my room playing with the camera.

They wouldn't notice?

They wouldn't... like, it would take

a couple years I think.

My parents are noticing right now.

Oh...

You good?

- Yeah.

- Mark.

- Mark!

- Sorry.

- Whoa.

- Give it to me.

Give me that. Give me the UFO.

Ah!

After tonight, you can be producer,

assistant director.

You know what?

If you're lucky, we can talk "co."

- We can what?

- We can talk "co."

- All right.

- Co-director.

He's three years older than me.

His brother voted for Dole.

- No, he didn't.

- Bob Dole? Really?

Yes, he did. Your brother's a moron.

My brother's... are you kidding me?

He's an... he's an engineering student.

He's an engineering student.

He's actually very smart.

He's gonna be president one day.

- Is this a dead end?

- No, you gotta keep going through.

Are you sure it's not a dead end?

- I'm positive it's not a dead end.

- All right.

We walked through here in the daytime.

- Does it usually get this tight?

- Yeah.

We're good. It goes on for a while.

I'm gonna be in so much trouble.

- You guys need help?

- It's worth being in trouble.

Do you understand what we've seen today?

Yeah, but I can push it like

an hour, but any longer, it's...

We would've noticed these

on the way in for sure.

I don't remember these.

Yeah. I for sure would have noticed these.

Mark, are you sure we passed...

- Mark where are we going?

- Hold on, I'll be super sure, hold on.

Are you sure we're going the right way?

Yes!

Why can't you just use the stars, man?

- Josh.

- No, it's this way.

- Are you positive?

- Yep.

All right.

- Do you guys not hear that?

- What?

- What?

- Josh, come on.

- Everything just looks like rocks.

- I know where we are.

Yeah, but you keep going

left then right, then left then right.

You keep complaining

about us being late, so can we go?

I know exactly where we're going.

I mean, who else are we

gonna listen to anyway?

Okay, let's go. What way?

Hold on. Just stop moving. Let me...

look first.

Well...

- I definitely heard that.

- I just heard something.

Guys. Get down.

Get down.

Mark, get down.

- What is that?

- It could be a train.

I-I... I didn't see any tracks out here.

Shh. Just listen.

Okay, we're almost back.

- Let's get the hell out of here.

- Let's go.

- Everybody walk faster.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. It's okay.

- Ash, it's all right.

- We need to get out of here now.

I know. Just calm down.

Josh...

do you recognize any of this?

- Give me the compass.

- Do you want to try?

- Guys!

- Yes! Give me the compass.

Get us home.

- Okay, I will. I will!

- You do it.

Okay, so... we came from this way.

We got this way.

- It's definitely not this way.

- Mark?

- Mark, where you going?

- Just stay there.

- Mark, where you going?

- I'm gonna find the car from up here!

You're not gonna see anything

up there, it's pitch black.

Hey, Josh? Can you come look at this?

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T.S. Nowlin

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