the audience applauded

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

If found footage is your thing,you will loveee the film

PHOENIX FORGOTTEN is a pretty interesting addition to the overworked found footage genre of film. It ably mixes the science fiction and horror genres and has some nice nostalgia value for those of us who were X-Files fans back in the 1990s. The story is one of mysterious disappearance and strange lights in the sky; the usual alien abduction route, then, but one done with appropriate eeriness. Much of the tale plays out in 1997 and I liked the way that the filmmakers shot on digital, copied their work to VHS, and then re-recorded to digital to give it an appropriately dated look. The performances are adequate and the narrative, although drawn out a little, comes together nicely for a BLAIR WITCH-style climax.

Just goes to show what is someones trash is someones treasure and looking at reviews on here I nearly did not bother watching this and that would have been a shame as its a good movie and certainly as good as any other found footage movie out there and better than a lot of them to.I started to watch this with a finger close to the stop button on the remote but I never stopped it. In fact I was riveted from beginning to end. I loved the way they blended real events and news reports with the fiction parts of the story which really grabbed you and the lead in with all the footage of the kids messing around made you want to watch until the end to see what happens.Don't always believe the reviews on here and watch this movie you might be very surprised.... I was

I try to watch movies without reading the reviews of others. Because everybody is telling a movie "Bad", then my preconception will be bad too. So, I watched the movie without others influence and can share what I felt by watching the movie.The starting of the movie was really good. For this kind of movie, you need to first set the plot sothat we can care for the characters. Initially, sister of one of the three victims tries to investigate what really did happen to her brother and his friends. I liked the part when Sister went to different people associated with the investigation, and what was the present account of the incident that happened 20 years ago. The old movie collection was very believable, I almost felt like that it was really a documentary, not any acting. Director has put a lot of effort to really make the clips seem like amateur captures. The way everyone acted within the clips, is praiseworthy.But the movie becomes boring at the later half of the movie. I guess, the director himself did realize the ending story is not a great one, so may be he just pushed on to finish the movie somehow, rather than taking a lot of care to shoot the movie. I must admit, the female teenager acted really well. There was a time when shows like X-files used similar concepts of UFO, but now this UFO thing is just an old past, no one cares about UFO anymore. And the movie might have lacked the budget to make the last scenes more believable.I feel sad to see so many one or two stars in reviews, I would like to appreciate the work of the director, of the female actress, the editors who worked hard to make the clips look like real ones, and so on. It is a movie to watch when you can waste an hour and so to just relax. There are definitely many more bad movies than this one.