There's stuff to like here. The director displays some flourishing touches with action scenes and uses a warm colour palette unlike the usual blue/grey of most horror flicks. I liked the mournful country-ish soundtrack which was a refreshing change from the usual frenetic stuff you hear in such movies. The acting was (mostly) competent.

The director was also the writer of the movie. Unfortunately, the story itself is the biggest weakness.

The Companions don't make sense as a threat. They are part zombie/ part ghost if you can imagine such a thing. The 'rules' under which they form and operate don't make much sense.

The platonic relationship between the two main characters was a refreshing change, but mostly the assorted characters are more like NPCs in a game. They randomly go off on road trips or missions, change their minds and double back, the dialogue is sometimes perplexing, characters form alliances with enemies or strangers for no discernible reason...

I'd rate it a 5 at best, but there's a promise of better things here from the participants.

In the year 2030 the world has been overrun by "entities". These are ghosts of people who feed off fear and can interact with humans, generally in a negative way, often causing harm. Gus (Marcus Anthony) and Ella (Anna Flynn) come upon an abandoned farmhouse and spend the night. Their goal is to go to Bodega, a paradise they hear about on the radio. Human's enter the picture. They leave Gus for dead as they "take turns" with Ella. They are rescued by Abner (Russell Shealy) a cowboy survivor. They leave Gus who is about to die and take off for Bodega. Gus doesn't die and things circle around.

The story was basically written for the "Twilight Zone" ending which we see coming from early on. The inability to explain the entities or establish rules for engagement made the film a little confusing by design. Didn't like any of the characters.

Guide: F-word. Implied rape. No nudity.

With low budget movies sometimes you hit the jackpot and others times you step in dog doo doo. This movie is a steaming pile of dog doo you happened to step in.

Sometimes good movies just don't get the budget they deserve. Other times movies get no funding because the script is awful. Case and point, dude gets upset because his wife shouts, "water!" He's worried about survivors hearing her. Yet, 5 minutes later he's trying to open a trunk of a car with an axe. Okay, what? Pretty sure what he's doing is 10 times louder than her shouting, "water!" Plus he's doing it multiple times.

That's one of biggest issues with movies such as these. They rarely make sense with a plot that barely exists. Staring actors who have just taken their first acting lesson. Can movies turn into companions? Well hopefully this movies dies and stops existing.