Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘The Windmill’

Written by Scott Edwards

When you’re on a trip to anywhere, if you want to know more about the area, your tour guide can make or break your trip. Needing to have all of the answers to your questions about the area, they must also be a strong people person, or the message that they are delivering may fall short on many of their guests. They also hold the keys to your safe passage, and while that does not seem to matter when traveling in the states, when you go overseas, it is very important as borders are monitored more frequently. Your tour guide has your life in their hands, so hopefully, they are looking to only deliver the good and not looking to take advantage of you and your downfalls. 
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Being figured out that she is not who she said she is, Jennifer is trying to find a way to stay ahead of the police on her trip out of Amsterdam. Seeing a tour bus that will be hitting up some of the famous landmarks in Holland, it might be best that she is able to get on it and keep a low profile. While she does not have a ticket, the tour guide gets her one and she is ready for a very memorable trip. With a hodgepodge of passengers from all over the world on the bus, she knows that not one of them will be looking for her for any reason whatsoever. 

Waking up from a nap where she dreams about her past once again, she looks out the front window of the bus and yells at the driver to stop. Seeing a man in the middle of the road, Jennifer is afraid that they hit him, but not being able to find a body anywhere around the bus, she appears to be going crazy. Not having any more of her pills, Jennifer will have to fight her demons on her own for the trip and the battle starts early as since the bus is not able to start back up. With bad weather moving in, the group will need to stay on the bus to avoid it, but someone will need to try and get some help so that they are not stuck in the middle of nowhere all night.

Seeing a mill in the distance, Jennifer volunteers to take the trek in the dark to try and get someone to help. Being accompanied by a military man, Jackson, the two make their way through the wooded area, but find out that they are not alone. Seeing Jackson get killed by a burned giant, Jennifer runs back to the bus and to her chagrin, the killer follows her. As the bus gets knocked into a ditch, the group of tourists are forced off and decide to make their way to the mill as well, at least to stay warm until help arrives. Little do they know however that all of their past sins will be put front and center as the legend of the Hendrik Miller comes to light and he is hungry for their souls.

A little bit of a different story than what I originally expected, when I thought that this would be a straight-out slasher movie, it actually does a good job of informing us that the sympathy we should feel these people is not necessary and they deserved what was coming to them. With everyone running from their own pasts, there are only two innocents on the bus that will pose a problem for the demon miller, but he has his earthly helper to get rid of them. With all of the flashbacks, you get to see each person face their sins and their respective punishment one at a time, so you are left to decide if they got what was coming to them or not. With plenty of flashbacks, a demon miller, an abandoned windmill and plenty of sinner’s blood, it is a good storyline that will keep you glued to the screen as you get to see all of the sinners pay for what they have done. Stay Scared.

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