Expected more

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Found footage and all that. Ah well, I mean there are worse movies out there and I guess if you accept the way this was shot and the fact it does not have a big budget (CGI looks ... well computer generated! I know - duh! But you get where I'm heading with this).So it begins rather quickly, the inciting incident ... at least that is the notion we get after a couple of minutes ... but then it does take it's time to get going. And we get annoying people doing crazy (dare I say stupid?) stuff. Anyway, there is action, there is horror and there is blood. But there is also a lot of boring bits throughout and a lot of cliches ...

Not bad at all, when you realise the main actor was also director, with a budget of 20,000. Definitely watchable, could of been a good story but the ending lets it down somewhat.

So I'll be the first to say that most found footage movies are stinkers. It has become the genre that film makers go to when they don't have a very original idea and want to make a film for a low amount of money. I tend to avoid them but "Hungerford" caught my eye with it's trailer and I am very glad I checked it out.The story starts off like most found footage flicks, we are introduced to our main characters and are given an explanation as to why they are filming everything, in this case it is a class project. I quickly noticed a difference in the characters in this flick as opposed to most films in this genre, they actually seemed like real people. It wasn't your usual group of beautiful people with wooden personalities, this actually felt like a real group of friends and it made me actually care about what happened to them.The action gets going very fast, and once it does the movie does not let up until the credits start rolling. Unlike a lot of other found footage films, a good chunk of this film takes place during the day which means they do not hold back on showing you everything that is going on. There are not a lot of camera cutaways or shaky running when things get going, you get a front seat view to all the bloody action. The effects were actually pretty well done considering the movies budget.The film does have its flaws as well. There were some moments where the dialogue was very cheesy and felt unrealistic. Plus I felt like the last 1/4th of the movie felt a little rushed.Overall though this was a pretty fun movie. It never dragged or felt dull and it didn't feel like another generic mediocre found footage cash in. I recommend giving it a go.7/10

A bunch of housemates live in the English town of Hungerford . One day a strange electrical storm strikes the town . The housemates think nothing of it but a couple of days later the inhabitants start acting strangely More found footage a subgenre this reviewer got bored with a long time ago . That said director Drew Casson and his co-writer Jess Cleverly have make a film that while it initially didn't appeal to me didn't have me scrambling for the off button when I got in to it . Indeed for a film that has no budget , an amateur cast and whose cinematography is confined to one single camera being waved about HUNGERFORD has much more entertainment value that it has any right to which says a lot about it . Much of the impact is down to the story starting quickly with an effective image of a storm of sorts which considering the non existent budget is very well done . The storm is an unexplained transportation method for alien parasites that take over their human hosts similar to THE PUPPET MASTERS then it's zombie horror all the way . Yeah it's far from original but what it does it does very well . Some things don't entirely work like deodorant being used as a bug spray and Casson and co miss a trick in not using radio reports for exposition in order to wrench up tension as more and more people succumb to the aliens . Since HUNGERFORD is so self assured I often found myself wondering if the production might have been better off doing a more conventional film and abandoning the found footage concept all together