One of my all time favorites.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The first 10 minutes were typical shallow millennial social media type story telling, which was enough to make me just turn it off completely.

Two friends embark on a round the world trip of a lifetime but only a few days in Derek gets viciously bitten by a woman he met in Paris but has no recollection of what happened. Then in Italy he becomes sick but he has also gained superhuman powers (he can smash rocks with bare hands, lift a car, run at 60km/h, etc). On the downside he has become a vampire and in need of human blood... This is filmed in the style of found footage. Yes, this has been done to death and I'm not a great fan of this format. However, shaky cam aside, this is a pretty well made film with some decent scares and special effects. The film starts off quite humorously but that changes after about 20 minutes and from there on is a full on horror movie. Worth seeing.

Yes, Found Footage, FOUND Footage, FOUND FOOTAGE!I repeat myself because I was duped into watching this and yet, it's never mentioned in the synopsis that this is found footage - my least favorite subgenre of films. Now, if I was told, I'd probably have avoided Afflicted, but to be honest, I'm glad I still watched it.Well, I'd give that statement a 50/50. Half the time, they had good ideas, a new twist/spin on the horror monster and it's well acted with decent special effects. ANNND then there's the other half that glorifies the found footage tropes that never make sense and are FOUND everywhere else. Like some of what this is ripping off: Chronicle.So two BFFs head off to basically backpack the world when no one wants them to go since one of them has a brain thing that might kill him. All-but immediately, the troubled half gets (roll credits!) and now they have to deal with his new "super powers" and problems that come associated with those abilities. Since this is found footage - and boy, they grind that idea into the ground - and horror, the movie should've been best served as a much shorter clip in a future V/H/S sequel. Totally would've worked much better as one of those segments than an entire feature film.That said, at least it picks up in the third act that almost makes me ask for more. I don't fault the filmmakers as they did make an actual feature with effective FX and the actors gave their all. Plus, it was a nice twist on the age-old story. Too bad the first half stood in their way and could've been easily condensed to make this the best V/H/S short of the installment.***Final thoughts: Another positive, the lead and his brother (I think that was his sibling, anyways. Can't get me to watch this again...) were cute. That's always a plus when watching a format (shaky cam/why am I always taking the camera with me?) I don't care for.

This is a great idea with good acting but for Pete's sake, quit insisting that you're fine when you and everyone ELSE knows that you're NOT! I degraded this movie big-time because of how long throughout the story he keeps insisting and insisting not to see a doctor when his friend keeps pestering and pestering him to. And even moreover, any friend would just give up after awhile and walk away from him, leaving him on his own, it's that ongoing and he's being that much of a moron. It's absurd. I stopped watching about a third or halfway through because it's so stupid.