The thriller, already acquired by LD Distribution, finds Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Katie Aselton running from homicidal veterans on a remote island.

Three buddies on a wilderness excursion find themselves in dire straits after an unfortunate encounter with some local hunters. No dueling banjos here, but you...

SUNDANCE REVIEW: 'Black Rock' Offers a Clever Take on the Girls-in-Danger Story

Black Rock Straining to be a distaff "Deliverance," indie thriller "Black Rock" is unable to shock, much less convince.

The relatively realistic focus in "Black Rock" on the plight of three athletic but by no means Amazonian women is initially refreshing. Unfortunately, the realism in this distaff "Deliverance" extends to the often-boneheaded decisions made by our protagonists, understandable in panicked reality but frustrating and paradoxically uninvolving in a movie.

Apparently I’m not alone in my growing disgust with movies glorifying the physical and mental abuse of people in general and the butchering of women in particular.

Layered conflicts mount as this lean film treks on, and they’re not limited to gender politics.

You know actress and filmmaker Katie Aselton and her indie auteur husband, Mark Duplass, from their work on “The Puffy Chair” and TV’s “The League.” Duplass has also been taking the occasional mainstream gig recently — see “The Mindy Project” and his supporting role in “Zero Dark Thirty.” They’ve teamed for “Black Rock,” a backwoods survival thriller, directed by Aselton and scripted (or semi-scripted, as usual) by Duplass.