I'm watching this for the second time and if you like mysteries, the creeps and the outdoors, you'll like this. This documentary focuses on stories of hunters who have vanished without trace while out on legal hunts and some will be thinking "well, if they weren't out there shooting animals, they wouldn't have gone missing". Well, there's certainly validity to that argument but leaving that aside, the manners in which these people just vanished are very strange indeed.

For once, here's an American documentary series (there are other Missing 411 docs on Prime) that doesn't rely on relentless recaps, overly dramatic talking heads and intrusive music. What it has are the facts, presented via personal testimonies from those who were there, all set against stunning landscapes that are at once beautiful and frightening in their size and wildness.

For me though, the highlight is the section where footage is played of the eerie, creepy-as-hell sounds recorded by two hunters one night, out in the wilds. Really gets the hair on the back of the neck standing up because, I think, it taps into our primal fears of the unknown, what's out there and what dangers it presents.

Highly recommended.

This is a heck of a movie. It only got a 7 from me because of the last scenario which had no place being in the movie. It was ridiculous and there is no proof it ever even happened. The rest of the movie was interesting. Hunters and experienced hikers go missing under mysterious circumstances without a trace ever being found. People who are familiar with an area go missing, sometimes they have difficulty walking and they are just gone. Items show up in areas that had already been searched many times. People who know what they are doing go missing, but then do or don't do unexplainable things. No calls for help, no firing their gun as a signal, leaving behind food, having tea within eyesight of rescue, yet don't try to get help.

Definitively worth watching.

Moral of the story, if you are in the backwoods or forest, don't become separated.

I've been enjoying Missing 411 on Youtube for quite some time. This movie with its beautiful shots of the American wilderness made the experience of hearing those mysterious and puzzling accounts even better. Some people are criticizing the scientific validity of the stories and perhaps they have a point, I don't know. From a strictly entertainment perspective, it's a great watch, that's for sure. I wish it was an hour longer!