Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
... View MoreThis movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
... View MoreYes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
... View MoreMostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
... View MoreI love me a good spook movie. Even if it's not a very well made one. But this one goes from somewhat creepy. To really bad and annoying the last 30 mins. I found myself looking at the clock shaking my head wondering how much longer can this go on? How much weirder can it get? Who are those crazy zombie dudes running around in gas masks? I was just waiting for the Cloverfield monster jump up and grab them at the last minute on the way out, LOL I guess it just goes to prove you can make a movie about anything. If you can manage to dumbfound your audience enough to sit to the very end .
... View MoreBrief synopsis WITH spoilers so that you don't waste your time like I did: Nothing happens for the first three quarters of the movie, then the two people we're hoping die do, then we follow two girls running for their lives through a compound filled with Bigfoots (Bigfeet?), lunatics, zombies, and people in trucks talking through loudspeakers and shooting. Nothing is explained. Longer synopsis: For the first three quarters of the movie, the camera is held by a man-child with anger issues and a beautiful girlfriend. He goes camping with a buddy, Brett and his beautiful girlfriend. The documentary is apparently about Brett. Why? I missed that part. I'm not sure it matters. While camping, they hear weird noises, bushes shake, a weird guy shows up at the campsite and creeps them out before wandering off again. Understandably, no one wants to be a part of this "documentary" anymore. They just want to go home. Man-child is taking his pet project so seriously that he soon starts filming nothing just to annoy everyone. When there actually is anything to film we see blurred shapes, shaky cam, static, the light conveniently going on and off, or nothing. Then Brett disappears. The girls worry. Man-child tells them to shut up and refuses to stop being a talking asshole behind the camera, then can't understand why they don't want to talk to him anymore. Finally, we see a body part. Then a hairy creature. I'm thinking, "Cool! A Bigfoot story! Okay. I can watch a little longer.." Then another body (man-child finally bites it, thank God). Then a LOT more shaky cam and screaming while the girls run, using the camera's light to find their way. Where are they running to? We don't know. They don't know. Somehow, they end up in a walled compound. Then the movie turns into a mishmash of Bigfoot meets The Crazies meets Resident Evil or something. I still have no idea. We watch as several "things" follow the girls and should easily slaughter them because of the bright light they're carrying and all the noise they're making, not to mention them leaving shelter almost as soon as they find it. Then it's not just Bigfoot anymore, it's lunatics and people in the distance with guns in trucks. Somehow, the women manage to escape over and over again until one of them gets her head blown off in full view of the camera (it's like a single frame - blink and you'll miss it) and the other gets picked up by a helicopter which is there for some reason. Did the girls just conveniently stumble upon the place as it was falling apart and someone called a helicopter? We don't know. This thing is a MESS. I would give it more credit for creativity and turning the whole thing unexpectedly into a "secret experiments gone wrong" flick if the ending didn't rip off the movies I've already mentioned. The ending was okay, but it was a little like watching a film of someone go through a haunted house. Just a bunch of "scary things" that don't relate to each other with no explanation. They're just there to be scary. The first part of the movie had NOTHING to do with the end, and the ending just leaves you confused about what exactly you just watched. I'm not going to slam reviewers who liked this movie. I'm glad some people did. I did not.
... View MoreThis is one of those films that greatly benefits from being very short, only about 1 hour and 15 minutes, and probably could've stood to be 5 or 10 minutes shorter, even. it's unclear what the actual subject of the documentary the characters are filming is, but it doesn't matter and no one cares, this is a Boogin Film and we want to see the boogin, while not actually seeing the boogin in case the boogin costume/puppet/effect is poor quality and draws us out of the immersion. the film does a great job of balancing that, giving us perpetually tantalizing quick shots of the boogin while not letting us see very clearly what it is. Its very first appearance is rather Bigfoot-y, while the first time you get a frontal shot of it, it looks like a giant sloth, and the more the film lets slip of it, it ends up looking rather like an orangutan or gorilla with the head of an owl. this film treads over a lot of clichés of found footage horror, including the disbelieving friend, a red herring stranger encounter (in the form of a wacky ass guy with a gun claiming to be looking for his dog), and a secret government facility with weird shenanigans happening. However the film does good by not lingering on these tropes, either drawing them out or having a strained sequence where, for example, the main characters wander into a government lab and come across a working computer or big binder fully explaining all the details of what's going on and them having a big revelation like "THIS is where all the Bigfoot sightings come from!" or "THIS is the source of the Philadelphia Experiment!" the entire sequence through the government facility is one of perpetual running, with no time to sit still and look around or take in what is happening. More of the Boogins begin to appear, and when we get the reveal of their source, it continues to not let us get much more information or any clear reason why the Boogins look and act the way they do. the end credits sequence is rather messy, with lots of pseudo digital distortion making it difficult to see or read things on screen, while also showing a quick compilation of random clips apparently taken in the government facility involving the boogins. it's not clear whether these take place before or after the film itself, and they too give very little actual information on what is happening and why. And I like it that way. I love movie mysteries that are either unresolved or only partially solved. I love that there was a whole world of backstory in this secret government facility that was completely denied to us because we were busy being chased by murderous owl-sloth boogins. Our lives are in danger, we shouldn't care about any of this. It was a fast and fun ride.
... View MoreHad I known that this was one of those mockumentary type movies with unfathomably bad camera-work, then I would never had wasted $2 on buying the DVD. And I will go as far as saying that the movie isn't even worth the disc it is pressed on.The storyline is just your typical found footage type; a group of people are filming a documentary when they find themselves in deep trouble.After having suffered through 79 minutes of unbelievably bad camera-work, I can say that this movie was bad on every level and every aspect. And it is not clear what the event actually was. Zombies? Disease? I don't know, and after the movie ended, I can't say that I really cared about what it actually was.The acting in the movie was adequate, but that did nothing to salvage this awful train wreck of a movie.As with all movies in this bad found footage genre, then the camera-work was all over the place. And that is really something that doesn't go well with me at all. If I pay money for a movie, then I expect a proper production, and not just getting something that I could make myself with my own digital video camera.I suppose that some evidence is better left unearthed, unheard of and unseen, and "Evidence" is definitely all that.
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