budget limitation and time restriction and shoot a script and then cut it and cut it and cut it . this crew be a group of good and young filmmaker while thoughtful in this script yes and allegorical clever in zero dollar effect when time and knowledge be all you have and rely on actor and friend and kind others for their time and devotion and location while and get a first feature in the can and a 1 in 1000 thing . these guy make film . good one . check out their short collection heartland horror and see the development . and i can vouch and work with them be about the most fun thing you will do in the business . i be stymie by harsh and insulting criticism for this film and wonder if one reviewer even hear one word of dialogue and ponder one thought or concept and or if all that be desire of this work be the visual gore of bashing and slash to satisfy some mindless view of what horror should mean to an audience . let the empty acre bring itself to you . don not preconceive what you expect it should be just because it get put in the horror or thriller genre due to it supernatural premise . it a drama with depth beyond how far you can stick a blade into someone with a reverence for a message that doesn not assault your brain visual center and but rather and draw upon one empathetic imagination to experience other suffering of mind and spirit . mark ridgway and curtis and the empty acre .