Expected more

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This starts really well. You're presented with the mystery of three dead people as the police question the survivor.The survivor is a ditsy artist, who is filmed by her boyfriend as events lead up to the killings. It's all hand-held camera from his POV, and the characters are well drawn by the actors.Another promising thing is that there's some very good art on show, suggesting another way of seeing what's about to happen. Plus there's a good erotic element.So the couple enter an abandoned hospital to scout out a location for her exhibition, and there's a great jump scare at about the half hour mark.After that it slowly goes badly wrong. Another couple is introduced, and you soon get the feeling that the storytellers were stuck for a way of advancing the plot. The rest of the film is random running around corridors, entering dark rooms, getting glimpses of unscary creatures in hospital gowns, and it just feels like the director and writer lost the plot. The tension drains away and you end up clock watching.I'd even question whether this is a horror, because it mostly feels like an exaggerated version of how a manic artistic personality went mad. The point of a horror movie is to make the metaphor literal, and the ghosts in this story don't succeed in that. If you hang on to the end credits you'll get two gratuitous sex scenes that have at most a faint relevance to the story.It's worth a look, but the epic fail of the storytelling is unforgivable.

Lets start that I have watched dozen of these movies already and that this one really isn't that good. By using "isn't really that good" I mean super bad. I looked the movie up on this site and only because of one review I wanted to see it. Now the beginning is actually the best of the whole movie. I liked it, even though there were only two main characters. The girl is crazy. All you need to know. The guy I think, likes to have sex with her (we saw that multiple times in the movie) and I guess that is the reason why he has a relationship with her IMO.Now the storyline is pretty simple. Abandoned place with running water and electricity. Tons of rooms who are filled with "creepy" crap. When they go in, they girl flips. they go out, calls a friendly couple and they go back in. Sounds logical to me (not). From that moment the movie sucks. The guy from the couple that has been called is a huge douche who thinks he's a bad ass (carries a gun etc..) . Now This particular moment in the movie blows my mind => the crazy girl has sex with the douche in one of the rooms and gets busted by his girlfriend and then he has sex with her too (trio-style). Now, if that wasn't weird enough, the crazy girl (main character) plays with the douches gun while she gets "filled" and shot him on purpose and thereafter his girlfriend. Because (f-word) logic, that's why. And that's is it. ow yeah she also shoots her boyfriend while saying to each other: I love you baby. Tadaaa written by a 6 year old who liked sex. If you hope to see a horror movie, don't watch it. if you hope to see some soft porn, watch it. if you hope to see a ghost, you will: I think two or three times you see a pregnant woman (woohoo!) The end was unsatisfying. You hope they die because of the simple reason they don't make any sense. Whenever I watch a movie like this. I want to believe that when I am in that situation i would or could do that. Not even once in this movie. I gave it a 1, I would have given it a zero but IMDb doesn't allow it. (P.S.: every review about this movie that says Grave encounters AIN'T or MIGHT be better, stop reading the review)

I didn't want to write a review about this flick but after I saw the ridiculous 3.9 rating I had to write something good about it. The first thing to say that almost the whole movie is filmed with a hand-held camera - like Blairwitch Project, REC, Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield etc. I've seen quite some flicks in this pseudo amateurish camera style and I have to say that this and REC are clearly the best I've seen so far. You may dislike the content and characters of this movie. You may even dislike the whole plot,story or setting BUT there are 3 things you cant ignore. First, the whole cinematography is really good. It begins with gimpses of the fun-loving, naive life of Jill and Adam which slowly transforms into a very intense psychological, nihilistic, surrealistic horror show. The atmospheric shots of the abandoned mansion environment are great. And last but not least - I really liked the performance of Caitlyn Folley as Jill. Don't get me wrong, this flick is not a mind blowing piece of art and you cant take such flicks too seriously. In the very last 2 seconds the movie makes that abundantly clear. This movie is a good, solid psychological horror shocker - nothing more, nothing less - and it should be rated accordingly. 7/10Give it a try. It's a good ride.

I see the reviews are harsh, I won't be the one to break the ice on a quite good one, in order to attract attention or mislead people, but for someone who never was into found footage movies, I got to say this one kept me still, watching, waiting for more.It starts slow, some nudity, some jokes and builds up to the key point in around 20 minute. From there on, it grows more and more and starts to deliver. Sure, nothing mind blowing, but considering the fact that zombie movies and found footage are spreading like a virus lately, once you do find a good one, it's good to get things straight. In my honest opinion, SxTape is a good example and here are the reasons: 1) acting was good; 2) characters were typical and natural; 3) once the tension makes an appearance it stays there; 4) one or two good scares (let's face it, found footage can't really be scary anymore;) 5) the twisted situation involved.So all in all, I would recommend this one, if you don't expect too much out of it, it will be OK. Somehow of a "Grave encounters", maybe better, dunno exactly. Anyway, if you do go in for it, enjoy!Cheers!