Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

So much average

I'll tell you why so serious

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Where do I begin with?.....It was like a bazzar of clichés.I am usually not bothered by clichés or classics,especially in horror films,but in this particular one,all I could think of after the first 10 minutes was C-L-I-C-H-E !We have a group of teenagers,driving with a car in a remote cabin in the woods.Of course nobody knows they are there,almost nobody amongst them knows that and they never stop to question the sighting of a weird creature until it starts killing them no matter the opportunities they had to check out.We have a white male leader,he is kinda dumb but with a SEEMINGLY clever not blonde girlfriend.Then there is the black guy,who is REALLY dumb with an even dumber blonde,very sexy girlfriend.He is tough,chiseled and always ready to curse and start a brawl.Then there is the weird weed-smoking camera-man who nobody likes.Ring any bells?...The group meets the creature at the very beginning of the movie,but what can be more important than healthy wondering "what was that?" and survival?Oh I know!Making a video in the most remote area possible about people who dive in a lake with their bikes.After that point,they encounter the strange creature a couple of times but always ignore it until it gets angry and tries to crash them.Of course,what better way to ensure the creature finds you?You smoke weed,go outside all alone in the middle of the night and start screaming like a maniac in a shameful effort to speak "it's language" and attract it.The next morning they try to escape but there is a branch pinned through their car's front windshield,so naturally their jeep becomes totally useless.I mean com'on,no car ever starts up without a windshield,right?Then there are various scenes with stupidity levels far over 9000.People getting smashed while their friends choose to just stand and film them die,falling over a cliff but instead of running filming it,a huge monster that cannot fit through a door has an underground nest so small,that a normal person must crawl in order to squeeze through,women always yelling,guys always shouting every time on the worst moment possible,sudden outbursts of sadness giving up life-at least for 30 seconds,then remembering other people don't actually matter,giving you can get away- or anger wasting bullets to the air and so on so on....The clichés never stop and idiotic decisions the group makes only manages to show the lack of imagination concerning the ways they could die.The monster itself,Mr.saskatsatun or whatever they call it,is Bigfoot but only manages to look like a mutated diseased gorilla.The whole movie walks over the borders of unbelievability.I do not know if I am being too harsh or if I would like it more had not I seen so many found-footage movies,but it seemed boring,unoriginal,full of clichés and ridiculous.You could not empathize with the characters,you not could believe their impossible reactions.If it's your first found footage movie or you are under 16 or you are a big fan of Bigfoot,then there is a chance you'll like this.Personally I was hoping for the monster to kill everyone so it could get over. 4/10 and that's only because I have seen worse.

5 friends go on a hike but encounter more than they bargained for as they meet up with a Bigfoot like creature. This had the potential to be better than it was. Unfortunately the characters are not particularly likable or memorable and so I found my mind wandering as the film progressed. Although it has some good periods they are interspersed with periods that I found downright boring and so the film didn't flow properly. For a low budget feature the special effects were pretty good and to be fair there are some really good tense scenes which stopped this being a total write-off. For me the final half hour was far more gripping than the first half so it's definitely a film that you need to persevere with to get any pay off. This isn't a bad film but it's not great either. If you're a fan of this genre and have a forgiving nature then you should find this sporadically enjoyable.

Dora (Dora Madison Burge), Matt (Samuel Davis), Todd (Roger Edwards), Brian (Chris Osborn), and Liz (Denise Williamson) travel to an isolated cabin in the woods. They hit something on the road before arriving in their destination. Soon they are hunted down by a Bigfoot. Will they survive to the creature?"Exists" is one of those teen horror movies where the viewer knows what will happen and only guesses who will be the next to die. The story does not have originality and abuses of the clichés associated to an awful camera. The only "originality" is the Bigfoot, instead of a maniac, or a vampire, or an evil spirit, or a monster or whatever. The rest is the same, with characters taking stupid decisions or actions to die, like Todd screaming and shooting in the woods to attract the Bigfoot. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Eles Existem" ("They Exist")

Obviously the director is allowed to make movies based on his previous movies. In this case though, he is interested to show the monster and he has added music too.That is a baffling decision honestly. I know certain found footage movies have added music. But if you are adding music to this extent, then why not drop the shaky cam and have a normal film then? Leave out any pretense of realism and make a regular horror movie. The music is effective though. It is not annoying and it enhances the atmosphere. Obviously the shaky cam thing bothers me often but generally I am able to look beyond these aspects.The movie doesn't waste time on character development or in building atmosphere. In many ways it is surprising since Blair witch or Lovely molly were pretty all about atmosphere. This is a total action film. Even if the monster is shown, it doesn't really bring down the movie. The monster makeup is realistic. The monster is also shown rarely and only from a distance for the most part. There are quite a few effective scenes here. What I liked about the monster is that he actually seems like a genuine threat. He is not a large lumbering predator, he is actually quite fast and even clever. He thinks like a human being.I didn't like some of the characters and their attitudes but in general the characters are not so important in this movie. Rather it is the action which never lets up that is more interesting. It is also not longer than necessary, it is short and to the point.Overall it seems derivative now, it doesn't show anything new. But it is a very entertaining action filled found footage movie.7/10