Special Agent Marcus Thorne and local tracker Sarah Jenkins venture into the Florida Everglades to investigate the disappearance of three college students. They discover the hikers are being absorbed by a collective of mutated, mud-covered people who have become part of a primal, symbiotic hive-mind. After narrowly escaping the "wild things" that treat the swamp as a hunting ground, Thorne is left shaken by the encounter, concluding that the wilderness is actively recruiting, rather than just destroying, its victims.
Special Agent Marcus Thorne and local tracker Sarah Jenkins venture into the Florida Everglades to investigate the disappearance of three college students. They discover the hikers are being absorbed by a collective of mutated, mud-covered people who have become part of a primal, symbiotic hive-mind. After narrowly escaping the "wild things" that treat the swamp as a hunting ground, Thorne is left shaken by the encounter, concluding that the wilderness is actively recruiting, rather than just destroying, its victims.