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Dark Harvest (2023)
Boring movie with the most predictable of twists
So this movie is based on a twist revealed late in the 2nd act but if you were to ask anyone who watches the first 10 minutes of the movie that if this movie had a twist, what would it be? They would 100% get it right.
I mean this movie isn't exactly The 6th Sense where it depends on that big reveal, but it is a pretty major part of the movie. It's amazing that nobody in this entire town has never bothered to ask the question that the main character asks about an hour into the movie. The really unfortunate part about this is that once they ask this question there's still another 30 minutes left in this borefest of a movie.
I don't know what else to say about this movie.
You will see the twist coming from a mile away
They never really bother explain the why of the twist, just that it is the way it is.
There really is zero lore development in this movie, just all the boys of a certain age in this town are tasked to kill this monster every year.
The kills and effects aren't bad but they also aren't interesting.
The last act of this movie is so focused on that twist that they never bother going into other question that weren't answered in the first 10 minutes. Why does this spirit haunt the town every Halloween? Why is it only 18 year old boys that can hunt it? Why the starvation? What happened that made this year go so badly? Why has nobody bothered asking the *really* obvious question that answers this movies twist?
It doesn't answer or even bother asking any of those questions. It's just a bland movie. Barely even a popcorn flick.
Infrared (2022)
Mostly boring filler
This is basically the gist of this movie:
* two tapes are found. One is about 10 minutes, the other is rest of the movie.
* literally nothing happens in the first hour of the 2nd tape.
* things start to happen suddenly and it's great for about 2 minutes.
* villain basically spends the rest of the movie monologuing
* the end
Skip this movie.
It's just a giant snooze fest of some guy trying to make a generic ghost hunter show except he's really bad at it. At one point he mentions he finds his producer and crew on craigslist and given the camera work I believe it.
Most of the entirety of the movie is just someone badly making a ghost hunter type show.
A Town Full of Ghosts (2022)
Ending felt very rushed
I was really digging this movie up until the last 15 or so minutes.
I liked the setup-- couple buys an abandoned town in order to turn it into a tourist destination, but things begin to happen as investors pull their support.
That works great and works well as a found footage movie setup. The problem comes in at the last 15 minutes when things start to go down. It pretty much goes from creepy piano to axe murderer. The movie is only about an hour long, it felt like they cut about 30 minutes out of the movie.
If they had only lengthened this movie by about 30 minutes to perhaps explain why the maze, why the wasps, show characters transformation, talk about the brothel, etc this would have been a pretty good movie. Instead it goes from happy couple buys a town to everyone dies in a maze with weird time hops.
On the found footage front, this movie does a bad job. Initially, it sells the FF reason by saying they're making a youtube show. In the end, you have the husband running around with a GoPro he never had and it makes zero sense why he's still holding the camera. A good found footage movie makes you believe why the person is still holding the camera, this is the opposite of that.
Skip this movie.
Elevator Game (2023)
boring
The movie started off well-- it had a decent setup, acting wasn't terrible, and seemed well made.
As the movie went on though, it just kind of kept getting worse. It had some stereotypical characters, but it looked like they were going to have some sort of depth. Nope! That all kind of went out the window about 20 minutes into the movie. They're all one-note and just kind of there.
Then they get to explaining the origins of the elevator game and why everything is happening and it's just...nonsensical to say the least. The game itself and ghost and some of her mannerisms just all clash with each other. It makes zero sense. They just thought things like "hey, it would be cool if there's a creepy red world" and "what if the ghost walked like the ring girl?" and "ooo and what if she hums this nursery rhyme randomly about elevators?" It's all just kind of dumb and did nothing for the movie.
Skip it.
The Death of April (2022)
Lower budget, less interesting Paranormal Activity
This is basically if Paranormal Activity, a movie that already had zero budget, had it's budget completely slashed and made about 15 years too late.
Megan is a little interesting, but aside from that the movie is just really dull. Just imagine Paranormal Activity but even less happens. The twist is this is made to look like a documentary, but this has already been done to death and done better. If this were made 10-15 years ago I might say watch it, but the paranormal activity movies have been done to death and the found footage documentaries have been done to death now.
There's just not really much of a reason to watch this movie.
Bad Ben (2016)
Just a pretty dull haunted house movie
I get that this movie had an entire budget of $300, it definitely shows, but sadly is just kind of comes off as dull. I love a good low budget found footage movie and this movie does a lot with its low budget, but it's ultimately just a really dull guy wandering around his house as the same "door opens/closes by itself gag" plays out over and over again.
It has a few tense moments and Tom can be fun to watch at times, but it's mostly just him sitting in a chair. Or laying in his bed. Or talking on the phone. For the first hour or so of the movie, it's pretty much that and the door gag. Nothing really happens for the most part. When something big does finally happen, it abruptly stops and goes back to Tom just wandering his new home and basically just yelling at the ghost to get out. In the last 15 minutes of the movie there's about a 10 minute sequence of him literally doing yardwork and nothing else.
Watching this movie though often feels like a cruel joke on the view. It feels like it's asking you "but just how mundane of a haunting can you stomach to watch?"
Anyways, it's put together well enough and told well for the most part. The last minute or two of the movie something finally really happens and it's exciting but not nearly enough to save the movie.
Deadstream (2022)
scary, funny found footage. This movie has it all.
I went into this movie expecting nothing than a stupid horror comedy found footage movie I could mostly ignore. What I got was a movie that delivered on humor and scares.
First off, I've seen a large number of movies that love to focus on an influencer and work really hard to make that influencer someone you hate. They make you hate them so much you just don't watch the movie. They are always written as completely uninsteresting with nothing to say or someone who is so deeply unlikable you don't know why they're an influencer in the first place or so over-the-top annoying. Whatever way they're written, you generally just don't want to watch the movie and hating everyone in it for the wrong reasons. Shawn is actually well written and well acted. Yes, he's annoying over-the-top energy, but not-so-much you just want to turn the movie off. This is a *really* hard thing to write and Deadstream makes this look effortless.
So with that said what is this movie? Shawn is a popular streamer who got cancelled 6 months ago due to a stunt he pulled. Fresh off his ban, he's gotten his sponsors back and he wants to make a name for himself again. His channel is about him facing his fears in the dumbest ways possible so he decides to go big for his big return-- stay overnight in a haunted house.
As entertaining as I thought Shawn was, I assumed this movie was going to be a bore when he got to the house. It's a small house with not a lot to do, but this movie fills the time brilliantly. Shawn comes equipped with cameras he places all over the house in real time which he very cleverly names, and an action backpack filled with everything from duct tape to holy water to a portable sound track. Spoiling nothing, he makes great use of all of his tools.
Once the movie gets going, and it gets going near instantly, it doesn't stop. Once things start to get crazy you actually start to get major Evil Dead 2 vibes and it's just fantastic. It's all or mostly all practical effects that have that 80's charm and look great. Even though the movie is legit scary and tense at places, you'll also be literally laughing out loud at all the crazy and stupid things that happen. Shawn sells his role pretty brilliantly.
Don't discount this movie because it's another found footage movie or a movie about an influencer. It is deeply entertaining and will quickly become one of your favorite found footage movies.
Pool Party Massacre (2017)
not great low budget slasher
There's nothing groundbreaking here-- girl throws a pool party, uninvited guys show up, and people start dying. The kills are fun and the movie is cheesy in that special camp sort of way you want it to be.
My biggest problem with the movie is after people start dying, you expect someone to eventually notice and the remaining people have to react. That doesn't really happen until the last 10 minutes with the final girl in this movie. One-by-one each character finds a reason to go off alone and the killer picks them off. It's fun at first, but by about the half way point it's just killing characters you already don't care about.
When it gets to the last few remaining characters, you really just want it to be over. The kills are cheap and fun but it begins to wear thin by the end and the characters aren't nearly enough to carry the movie all the way through.
Unboxed (2022)
I don't normally like to rip on student projects with $100 budget but...
I feel like it's fine to make a movie that has been done to death but if you do decide to do that you should make sure to do it well. Unboxing is a movie that feels like it's a student project made on a weekend with about $100 to spend and does nothing well.
The acting is pretty terrible across the board, some of it you might expect to see better in middle school theater. Laura, the main character, probably does the best but even she is not good at all. She kiiiind of starts selling it at the end of the movie, but the rest of the time she's just kind of...not there. Just vapid streamer. Special shoutout to the other end of the acting spectrum, Eddie del Carmen for possibly some of the worst acting I've ever seen in a movie. I guess that might be ok to be that bad of an actor if he were a better writer/director, but, well...
Of course it's hard to blame these actors when the roles you're playing don't actually have any character. It's a stretch to even call some of the main characters cliches. Laura has the most depth of any of the characters and it her entire character goes only as deep as "girl who is an influencer." The rest are typical stoner boyfriend, shy nerdy kid who wants the girl, and finally "friend". Oh yeah, and influencer agent who wants her high school client to dress sexier.
Aside from the characters and acting, the camera work is bad. The editing is bad. The music is bad. The dialogue is bad. The story is bad. Just bad all around.
So what is this movie?
This movie centers around Laura, a high school girl who is some sort of professional mak-eup streamer/influencer. She actually has an agent and everything, an agent so devoted to her that she sits in her office during Halloween to watch her client. So Laura gets all sorts of influencer gifts and giveaways, a completely professional setup, has thousands of viewers and has even hit more than 1,000,000 views but she is just a terrible streamer. Zero personality, zero interesting to say. Maybe that's what people look for in a streamer? I don't know.
Anyways, it's Halloween night and instead of going to the final part of the year (yes, her friends make sure to tell her it's the final party of the year even though it's only Halloween) she's doing the worlds worst live stream. She soon starts getting blackmailed into doing increasingly worse things on stream for the enjoyment of some random person. They never really bother explaining why this person does what they do...they just kind of do it? Motives are for losers.
Where was I? Oh right, bad movie. Laura does the things, killer starts upping the ante. You've seen this movie 100 times probably and you've definitely seen it done better. I'd like to at least give the people in this movie credit for trying hard but I don't think they even did that. The best thing I can say about the movie is it's only 73 minutes. Skip this movie.
Shelter in Place (2021)
Mostly ok until the completely nonsensical ending
This movie is a slow burn and I mostly like the first 2/3's of it. It's a newlywed couple stuck sheltering in an empty hotel where they're the only guests and there are only two people on staff. After a few weeks of this, they're going a little crazy.
I dig all of that.
But then the ending happens...and it really just makes zero sense. It tries to be wild unexpected and it tries to make you question what is real and what isn't. What ends up happening is this odd ending that comes completely out of left field and makes zero sense.
Skip this movie, it's not worth your time.
Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Just skip the first 45 minutes.
The first 45 minutes of this film are pretty much a waste. All you need to know is Gary is a guy that likes to go on hikes and he disappears. You learn this in the first few minutes of the movie and then they spend 45 minutes on that.
At some point, they suddenly realize this guy has a blog and someone actually thinks to look at it. Things pick up a little, but not really enough to save the movie. They spend another 10-15 minutes just amazed that this guy has a blog and then finally get to his final day.
At the end there's a final sequence that starts out pretty tense...and then it just keeps going. Gary and the killer play cat and mouse around a tree for a long time until the killer finally gets him.
This is one of those movies where you know they had about 20-30 minutes of movie and then did everything they could to hit that feature length, including plugging a sequel. Just skip until they find the blog, that's about where the movie actually should have started.
Followed (2018)
Very tired by the numbers found footage (from someone who greatly enjoys FF movies)
This was far from the worst Found Footage movie I've seen but it was also far from the best. It doesn't do anything new, special, or interesting. It's just kind of there. Person with a film crew stays at a haunted hotel because he wants to build his brand. Bad things happen, and he wants to stay because his brand is really important. This has been done about a billion times in found footage movies and unfortunately it doesn't really do it that well.
First off, I had some major sound issues with this movie. The voices were super low and the music and various FX were super loud. It's not my setup, it was this movie. It made things really obnoxious because if I wanted to hear what the actors are saying, I had to turn the tv up very loud. Anytime the bad things started happening or the cliche camera glitches started happening, things got very *very* loud. And since I am on it-- the camera glitches. I love found footage movies but just stop it, ok? I can stomach adding a music score to your found footage movies, but stop it with the camera glitches every time something bad is about to happen.
Anyways, the main character is an incredibly unlikable social media influencer and that's kind of the point. The guy playing him does a decent enough job at this as does the rest of the cast. Nothing stands out, but at least they did a decent enough job there. The story is...well there's a twist at the end that lands with intensity of a wet noodle and there are a bunch of threads of things that happen at the hotel that goes nowhere.
This movie is basically a waste of your time, even if you're a very big fan of found footage movies. You've likely seen other movies that do the exact same thing this movie does but better.
Spree (2020)
Complete bore
When this movie was originally pitched I really wish there had been someone in the room that said something along the lines of "you know, maybe making a movie focusing on a failing uncharismatic and uninteresting social media streaming isn't a good idea. Like we're literally making a movie asking people to watch a guy that nobody wants to watch."
Things finally start picking up an hour in but by then I was already bored out of my mind.
Haunt (2019)
Pretty forgettable, some tense scenes and a lot of pointless backstory
For the most part this wasn't bad. There was nothing actually surprising in the movie, I don't think they could have made this more by-the-book but there were some pretty good tense scenes (The Escape Room!).
Movie starts off with shy girl that lives with two other girls for...I don't know why they live together or are friends actually. They're not in a sorority, I think they're just living together for convenience to the movie. Anyways, they go to not a frat party and shy girl meets not a frat guy nice guy. They hit it off and before things start going too well for the two fatty mc loud frat guy shows up and spills beer on her. Now shy girl, nice guy, fat loud guy, and three girl friends all know each other and go to a haunted house for reasons.
During this time pointless redneck boyfriend who may or may not be an ex is driving around looking for shy girl, throwing pumpkins at houses, and just being a menace. He really serves no purpose to the story. He shows up later to save them and then immediately dies. Good job guy, way to earn your screentime.
Anyways, they finally get to the haunted house. It starts off cheesy and gets scarier and scarier as they figure out things are real. There's a lot of backstory for shy girl how she grew up in an abusive house (iT wAs HaUnTeD tOo!) but I honestly didn't pay attention to any of that.
The murder face mutation clowns were fun for the most part. It was fun watching them work their hell house and in general that was all a good time.
The movie ends with shy girl and nice guy frat guy escaping, surprise. The twist ending is one murder clown survives only to find that shy girl Home Alone'd her house in order to kill the murder clown.
The end.
Kamera o tomeru na! (2017)
Lives up to the hype
I have been putting off watching this movie for years. I've heard only rave reviews for it but I have to be in the right mood to sit down and watching a subtitles movie. I have to admit, at about 25 minutes in I paused this movie, saw there was more than an hour left, and wondered what garbage movie am I watching and is it the same movie that everyone else is raving about? I had no idea how they were going to drag another entire hour out of the movie. I was very close to turning the movie off and moving on to something else but I stuck with it and I am glad I did.
No spoilers, but still with those early bad special effects, bad characters, bad acting, and bad everything else just watch it and be amazed how everything turns out.
Scare Campaign (2016)
Short, sweet, and great.
I can think of few horror movies that get to the good parts quicker than Scare Campaign. This moves at about the speed of Red Eye and it is great. While lesser films might spend the 30-45 minutes on subplots, character development, and other things I just don't care about, Scare Campaign pretty much gets right to it. I actually had to pause the movie midway through just to make sure I wasn't watching a short, but nope, I was only about half way through.
I don't really want to give anything away about the movie, but just know it's very good and a great 80 minutes.
Even Lambs Have Teeth (2015)
At least it looked like everyone was having a good time?
You know a movie is going to be a special type of bad when all the music is either really bad synthesizer music or bad open license music. The two main actresses and a few of the supporting cast members do a good enough job, but everyone else...listen, at least they all looked like they all had a good time working on this movie.
Other than that, the movie quickly introduces you to a few sleezes and then introduces you to the big bad scary sleeze without telling you why he's the big bad scary sleeze. I've already spent more time writing this review than any character in this movie is given. It really doesn't matter anyways, after a silly shopping spree the girls zip from one kill scene to the next, not really pausing for anything like exposition. At least it kept the runtime low.
There's also the subplot of the super cop uncle that every time he introduces himself he can't decide if he's a detective or an FBI agent, so he just tells everyone he's both. It doesn't matter, he's largely pointless. I think he was literally added in at the last minute because they needed at least 71 minutes of run time.
The movie finally ends with the girls making it look like one of the sex trafficking murder rednecks killed everyone and then making it look like he committed suicide. They did this by shooting him in the head...twice. Yup, after shooting the final guy in the head, they mention they know how to stage a crime scene because they've seen Dexter, and then use his dead hand to shoot himself in the head...again.
There's really not a good reason to watch this movie.
They're Watching (2016)
2/3 waste of time, 1/3 fun
I like what this movie was trying to do, the last 10-15 minutes make up for a lot of the bad, but the movie just takes so long to get anywhere.
The first 45-60 minutes are just getting to know the crew. You quickly learn who they are, what they're about, and what they're there to do. After that, they just kind of wander about a small Eastern European town for 45 minutes where nothing big actually happens. All of that could have been established in 15 minutes but then the movie would have the problem it would be about at 30 minute film. Luckily the movie ends in a way you rarely see found footage movies end, especially low budget ones like this. It's crazy, stupid, over-the-top, and fun, it just takes a long time to get there.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
All style, no substance
I don't really know what I was expecting from Zach Snyder's Justice League. I had seen the original one and remember thinking little else other than complete waste of time. It wasn't as bad as Batman v Superman and definitely wasn't as bad as Wonder Woman 84, but it was bad. Now that I've seen this one, I can safely say it's better but still a bad movie. Zack Snyder as a director hasn't really grown any since 300. He's really good at making visually impressive movies, but he's flat out bad at telling stories and developing characters.
I basically have the same complaints about Zack Snyder's Justice League as Justice League. There's no interesting villain, there are no interesting characters, it's too busy trying to play catchup and make an extended universe team-up, and everything is too serious and grumbly for its own good. Now with this cut you can also it's in 4:3 for no good reason and it's two hours longer.
The added Darkseid stuff doesn't really add anything. It's basically there's one big bad looking for a doomsday plot device and then halfway through the movie the big bad finds a new doomsday plot device so the new big bad can come. Don't ask me how they forgot they left the new doomsday plot device on Earth, but they did and they were all surprised to find it. It's very dumb.
Tacking two hours onto a bad movie doesn't make it better, it just makes it longer. Maybe if he hadn't relied so much on slomo he could have at least taken an hour off the run time.
Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019)
I guess it's better than Hell House II
I liked Hell House III a little better than Hell House II, if only because it didn't recycle the ending and they kept the villain monologue short.
It's obvious that Stephen Cognetti is very good at making creepy, tense, found footage scenes and I'm pretty sure that's all he's good at. In fact, he's very good at specific types of terror in found footage movies. It was brilliant in Hell House, but in II and III, we've seen it all before. It's still creepy and tense in this movie, but we've seen it twice now. We've seen the clown head turn, we've seen the ghost wander into the background, and everything else Hell House has to offer. All three of the movies play about the same.
Aside from that, this movie brings in a lot from the other movies. They go REALLY overboard in the first 30 or so minutes where it's just constant cuts to previous movies, it's a bit much. After that, they try to give the new characters life and you're just left feeling kind of eeeeeh. This movie didn't drag in the ending nearly as badly as Hell House II did, I at least wasn't counting down the minutes to the end, but this does almost nothing to expand the lore and the characters they introduce just aren't interesting. They try to give some of them some dimension, but it doesn't really work.
Then there's the ending. I was sure Wynn was the domino just reading the description of the movie and that Vanessa was going to be the dead girl that "escapes", I was half right and pleasantly surprised. Tully started monologuing as everything went to Hell and I groaned. Vanessa got killed and was like "there it is!" and then they did some weird Avengers time heist nonsense where Wynn somehow saved everyone and erased everything that happened that night. I don't know. I don't really get it. It leaves a lot of open questions about where the tapes came from and not really good questions. You're just left with a that made zero sense feeling. I guess it ends with Wynn and the original Hell House crew (I guess they couldn't get the Hell House II people) in the afterlife. There's some terrible dialogue and they get a drink.
I appreciate they closed the trilogy but it was just kind of a sad trombone sound of an ending.
And one final thing-- I know this movie probably did not have a large budget but. Oh. My. God. That final act massacre. I have not seen such bad acting and effects in a movie in a long time. I think this was supposed to be a crazy scary gore fest but I was laughing because it was just so bad. I don't know where they found the actors for the people that were being massacred and the demons, but put them back wherever they came from. Also, fire your CGI lake of guy because lawl.
Anyways, not a bad found footage movie, slightly better than the second, worse than the first.
Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)
Tries to bottle lightning, fails
This is what happens when you try to bottle lightning
Hell House II isn't bad, it just tries to do all the same things the first one did and the result was just an OK found footage film that you've already watched before.
The first movie did a great job at building up to the ending, showing you just enough of what's going on to keep you interested, relying on creepy atmospheric scares, and having genuinely interesting characters. Hell House II, I mainly just found myself a little bored waiting for the ending. You realize pretty quickly they are actually doing the same exact ending as the previous movie-- the girl they're interviewing is actually dead and getting people to go to the hotel.
Y A W N
It was a cool moment in the first movie, but you can't do the same exact thing twice in a row. And that isn't even the worst part. This movie finally gives Tully a backstory and face, and it would be putting it lightly to say it's disappointing. The movie tries really hard to give the hotel and Tully way too much backstory and even has Tully do the classic villain monologue. The last 30 minutes of this movie was just bad.
The first hour, it was fine but just more of the same Hell House. It doesn't rely on really cheap jump scares and loud noises, just the same scares from the first movie. Things are just interesting enough to keep you watching, but towards the last half it just drags.
Again, not bad, just a worse version of Hell House.
Hell House LLC (2015)
Very solid and scary movie
It's always interesting reading found footage movie reviews, they're always full of people acting all sorts of snobbish about found footage movies. I generally have to wonder why these people watch found footage movies in the first place.
Anyways, I've been putting off watching Hell House LLC for the longest time because the version I had was SD and everything about it looked a bit meh to me. I finally watched it last night and it was great. It didn't rely on bad jump scares, it didn't feel the need to music, and it didn't have any sort of the usual lull these movies can get. There were some *veeeery* creepy parts and the setup for why this is a found footage movie-- a group of people making a haunted house wanted to document their process for behind the scenes footage-- works well.
My only complaint is probably the documentary part felt a little flimsy and forced. I get why it's there to setup the ending, but it just made things a little awkward. The movie starts as a documentary, then they suddenly find some tapes where it's mostly just those tapes completely forgetting about the documentary part, and then throwing you right back into the documentary part to setup the endings (and yes, I would say this movie has endings). It's just a bit odd because it's basically two movies slammed together. The tapes work really well, the documentary works less well.
But yeah, super creepy movie that keeps your attention the entire time that is genuinely tense and scary.
Leaving D.C. (2012)
Great example of a low budget found footage movie
I've been on a bit of a found footage kick this week. Last night I watched Survive the Hollow Shoals and reading the description of this, I decided it was a good night to watching Leaving DC since both seemed to be about escaping. They're both very small budget found footage movies, but whereas Survive the Hollow Shoals tries to ramp things up with constant jump scares, Inception BWAAAAAAAAAHS, and, ugh, music, Leaving DC is about 95% the main character and him methodically trying to solve the problem of something strange happening at his house in the middle of nowhere.
The main character Mark is very aggravating and there are a few points he goes from zero to asshole in nothing flat, but you find yourself wishing he's alright. Every morning when he makes his update, I breathed a small sigh of relief he lived another night. Even thought everything going on in this movie is triggered by the sounds in the night, it's much more about Mark dealing with living in complete isolation, dealing with the problems he's presented, and coping with isolation. Not only is the movie asking you to decide what's going on outside, it's also leaving you to wonder why he really left DC? Did this guy alienate any friends he might have had? Does his OCD group actually care about him? What signals from his OCD group did he get and which did he misinterpret?
All-in-all, while not a lot happened in this movie, I found myself incredibly compelled to continue to see just what he was going to do next, what he was going to hear next, and how he would handle the next problem. Extremely solid movie only really brought down by the ending. I wouldn't really say it's left open, you can guess what happens, but you can tell they were dealing with zero budget and just kind of had to make due. It wasn't bad, it was just kind of a let down.
Survive the Hollow Shoals (2018)
Worlds worst survivalist goes on an adventure
This movies features Zack, a guy who watched a youtube video on surviving in the wilderness and thought "yeah, I can do 60 days in the woods." Armed with a backpack that contains the worlds longest lasting battery, a knife, and a canteen Zack leaves his girlfriend and wanders off in a random direction. Things do not go well for him.
I liked the idea of this movie, it starts off really well, but then it just kind of drags. The middle of the movie is him inexplicably trying to stay at his shelter and the last third is him trying to leave but keeps returning to his shelter. It just makes those last two thirds of the movie really drag. I was pretty much counting down the minutes left in the movie because nothing new happens in the last 30 minutes.
* Three days into his adventure he comments he isn't eating/drinking enough and he probably should have practiced more. You think? I'm sorry, did you do a weekend camping trip once and thought that was pretty much the same as sixty days? It's not like there's some entity taking all the food, he thinks things are all going according to plan those first few days. He's just really bad at this.
* I enjoy found footage movies and I try not to be a snob about found footage movies. I can forgive them ignoring he somehow has enough batteries to last two months, but I can't really forgive them adding the music and the BWAAAAHS to the jump scares.
* First night, crazy sounds start happening. Second night, more crazy sounds. Third night he finds a voodoo stick figuring hanging directly in front of his shelter. Any sane person would just say "ok, I have no attachment to this particular shelter, you win whatever is messing with me. I am leaving." But no, he just brushes it off and doesn't try to leave until like two weeks later.
* I am pretty sure they used the same footage of the woman walking behind the shelter like four times.
* After repeated attempts to leave he keeps up ending back at his shelter. There's a scene where he's trying to map out his various routes and it's just hilarious. It's hilarious because he has no idea what direction he came to this camp from and no idea what direction he has traveled. He just figures "the road is to the left." Guy, if you're survivalist you should know your basic directions. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Start off in the morning with the sun on your left or right and go. If at the end of the day it's on the opposite side you did a good job.
* Assuming it's not his terrible sense of direction keeping him lost, you'd think he'd just follow the river up or downstream. You'd *hope* he had at least studied some maps and have some basic ideas where the water leads or comes from.
Butterfly Kisses (2018)
Clever found footage premise, not the worst movie.
I am a sucker for found footage movies but this one was just kind of eeeeeeeeh.
I dig the idea of a movie about someone that literally found footage so he makes a movie about it, but the way *EVERYONE* acts towards him in this movie is just crazy. He's convinced the footage is real, cut it into an actual movie, and is trying to shop it to literally anyone. The problem is everyone is immediately hostile to him, including the director of the Blair Witch Project, and it just feels so forced. There are a lot of weird logic leaps in this movie.
All-in-all it's not a terrible watch, it just has really grating characters and the ending...is not good.