It's the Christmas-New Year holidays, and a couple are camping out in the bush by a river. But there's anther tent that seems unoccupied and abandoned on the shore, and soon things are going to take a turn for the worse. There's a reason this film isn't called "Best Camping Trip Ever".
Australian cinema has a reasonable recent reputation for horror, and this is a pretty solid entry, turning very much into a horrific stalking-through-the-bush along the way. There are a few hints that it's trying for something more (in particular, a one line-drop about the venue being the site for a previous Aboriginal massacre) but I don't think there's enough there to take this beyond a "beware of the great outdoors" slasher. As what it is, it's effective, and well cast (although the best known cast member, Aaron Pederson, is slightly under-utilised), but it doesn't quite transcend the genre.
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