Twist ending?

Basically what happens in the last fifteen minutes or so is:

The crazy guy(Julian) ties up the young guy (John), then lets him go so he can hunt him down, or something like that. John gets the drop on him and ties Julian up explaining that "the ties won't hold you for long, but long enough so I can make it back to the car".

Then it shows John making his way through the forest and then bedding down for the night. In the morning he wakes up. As he lays there gathering himself, John looks up as a knife is coming at him. Cut to black. Next scene opens about waist high on a extreme close up of a large piece of wood (apparently stuck in the ground) while there is some movement around it. You hear this "squish" sound and then see blood start to run down the stake.

Cut to day 37. A helicopter and a search party apparently searching for the lost men. The search party calls out their names but nothing. One of the searchers finds the stake (probably with John's head on it, although we never really clearly see it), and radios for help. Then the same searcher turns around and sees Julian standing there naked, but covered head to toe with dirt. It looks like he was rolling around in black ash or something. Julian has this animalistic pose a la Predator, or the creatures from "The Descent". The other searchers hear the guy scream. Zoom in on Julian standing over the body of the searcher, cut to black.

Open on a picturesque view of the forest (or trail or whatever). The rest of the message from the beginning of the film plays. It's just the same kind of "you'll be changed forever" crap that picks up where the beginning left off. Fade to black. Credits role.

It was an ok film, but the filmmaker was mistaken when he thought filler was the same thing as suspense (or build up). It just kind of drags to the point where, when something does happen, you're annoyed when the moment is over because you know you're going to have to sit through more B.S. filler before something actually happens again.