The Shrine

A young man is the latest in a long line of backpackers to go missing in Eastern Europe, only to have his belongings show up in an airport elsewhere on the continent weeks later.
When a journalist traces his last known whereabouts to a village in Poland, she heads out with her assistant and reluctant photographer boyfriend to solve the mystery.
Things take a nasty turn when she decides to investigate an unmoving and mysterious patch of dense perpetual fog in the woods on the village's outskirts, and finds an imposing statue that the villagers would rather she hadn't seen...

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'The Wicker Man meets Hostel, with added Demons' is as fair of a description as any.

Until the 3rd act twist, this one is a fairly straight forward, traditional horror movie, such as Hanmer may have made in their heyday, albeit in a modern setting. 

It's odd then that, loving Hammer as I do, I found it slow. It's basically the same criticism  I leveled at (actual Hanmer movie) The Woman in Black; while I love old movies, there's something about the slow pace of them that doesn't quite work when modern film makers try to pull it off. 

With that in mind, this is going to be a short review, as the first two acts leave me with little to say. 

The third act almost makes up for it though, delivering some genuinely good scares, tense moments, and some great creature and gore effects, and a brilliant twist that seems like I should have seen before, but honestly can't recall an example of. 

If the center section of the movie had been a bit shorter, and if the characters had been a little more likeable, and a lot less stupid ("a column of unmoving fog? We'd best go into it one at a time and see what's going on in there", "of course, strange girl from an unfriendly village with a strange religious cult; we'd love to all go into that bard full of coffin sized crates, then not keep an eye on you while you lock us in") I could have gone as far as to recommend this one, as it stands, I can only rate it "meh".

(Yes, I do know that The Wicker Man wasn't a Hammer movie)