Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I had absolutely no clue whatsoever what to expect before watching The Wicksboro Incident. I didn't read anything about it so I started watching it without being influenced by reviews or anything. The first half hour I was wondering if it was a documentary or a fictional movie. You could say that that is not bad because the acting was believable. It's only when the old dude started searching the shelter in the desert with a coat hanger that I was for 100% sure it was just a fictional movie. From that point on it got way less interesting, with some stupid turns in the story. Nothing much believable anymore, and so also more boring. I have to admit that there was a bit of suspense as well but the story was just not strong enough to make it good. And then the handy-cam filming, it will always be something I dislike. I don't get why they continue making movies like that because it really doesn't bring anything more besides being annoying.

"Documentary,", about some old crazy person, a cameraman and his lover, friend, business partner, whatever, investigating a town that completely disappeared off the face of the planet 45 years ago. Turns out, that crazy old fraud was right.Anyways, this isn't a documentary, and anybody that thinks this is real should do the world a favor and take their own life. Anywho, this would've been a great, groundbreaking, thrilling little film if it were made in the early 90's. Now, it's just boring. There was nothing thrilling about it. I don't know. I mean, it really could have been something cool if something, anything worth half-a-sh*t happened. Nothing did. I found is humorous that this old crazy person could detect aliens among us with a toy her bought at K-Mart... My girl asked me, "Is this real? Did that really happen?" Of course I said, "Of course this is real, and that did really happen, just not in Texas. It happened in Kansas. The actual name of the town that disappeared is Chanute." Chanute is a town 20 miles away and it's still there. Knowing she knew of this town, since it's where we met, I scrambled and came up with a story about how this happened to Chanute in whatever year the movie said and Chanute was rebuilt in it's entirety in the late 70's. We were both born in 84.At first she was shocked, then she figured out I was full of sh*t. Probably because I was laughing at her when she seemed to believe me. I got a little off base. I just felt the need to tell that story. Anyways, back to this waste of time, yeah, well, um..., nothing happened. A car crashed, a guy got shot. Story over. Again, I must say, this movie really could have been very thrilling. Had the love triangle that starred in the film decided to confront one of the aliens that they detected with the Fisher Price thinger, or if there was..., well..., something that happened. It seems like the director was really trying to pass this thing off as real. The sheer logistics of making a town and all of it's inhabitants completely disappear off the face of the earth, with no one being none the wiser, even in 1953, is extremely, highly improbable. All it takes is one person moving away after graduation in '52. However, if you can suspend your common sense for however long this thing is, it's still not good because nothing happened at all. This is one of the most boring horror/sci-fi/thrillers ever made by anyone, anywhere, ever. If I were to film my Rat Terrier humping my neighbors Darth Vader lawn gnome, it'd be more thrilling, and more sci-fi, than this movie. His wife coming out on the porch in her nightgown to shoo my dog would make it more horror.

i just seemed under the impression that this is a true story...Lloyd in this film is either telling the truth or hes a better actor than I've ever seen....what troubles me is the scene that Lloyd is killed...what hit him in the head?......the other issue that troubles me is when they sell the camry....not many people i know carry their car title with them to be able to make a fast exchange like that...the device isn't all up to par either...I'm sure many know more than me on the subject but why the flashing leds in the clear bubble other than for looks?....so is this just a movie or is it really a documentary? if anyone has any thoughts on this please comment here or preferably email me at the address provided...I'm one of those that have to know the truth and don't trust our government with anything lol.

This is a pseudo-documentary, that is a movie designed to look like a documentary. It's hard not to compare it to the Blair Witch Project (since they borrowed the style from it), but it probably owes more to John Carpenter's "They Live", in terms of plot than anything else.Basically it starts off telling the tale of a guy who claim to have been a scientist in the 1950s. It seems he worked on an early version of the microwave oven, but for reasons unknown, he and his fellow scientists played with it so it would pick up brain waves. And they noticed that they would occasionally get strange readings.And of course, the only obvious conclusion they could jump to is that they were actually aliens, not people, causing the strange readings.So he claims that he and his scientist buddies were transferred to a small town in Texas (Wicksboro). Then everyone mysteriously vanished. And he fled and changed his name. But 40 years later he came forward. But the only people who were interested were these 2 guys, would be film makers.So these 2 indie filmmakers start investigating his claims. Which basically consists of just going to the library, then going to Texas on a road-trip to actually look for the town. They find it, but run into the aliens (in human guise, of course) and the rest of the movie (the bulk of it) is fleeing from them.Part of the trouble with it is that it's just not particularly creepy. It would have been a lot better to have borrowed some stuff from actual UFO folklore, rather than just a re-tread of "They Live". There's no shortage of things they could have borrowed from.There should have been far more on the actual investigation, I think. Just going to a library wasn't much.I also think the premise is pretty silly. I mean, I am into UFOs and often go to talks and seminars by strange people who give lectures and have slide shows about supposedly hidden bases and conspiracies and stuff. If there was one that was real, no would could tell the difference from the dozens of other supposedly real conspiracies. Heck, Netflix has a whole section on supposedly real alien conspiracies.Lastly, it's supposed to be a documentary, but clearly it's a finished one. It's got lots of stuff that would have been put in last. Like dramatic music while the guy is running around in the dark. Or in the ending, it briefly cuts to a still photo of a guy earlier in a film, who the guy at the end mentions. (Which also was a great way to destroy any tension that was building up.) Stuff like that generally gets done last in a movie. Even if it was supposed to be added just after the footage was shot, I don't see how the cut away to the still photo could have been added at the end, plausibly. So it just makes little sense.All in all, a really pointless movie. Would have been better if it was just a Blair Witch rip off. Though the acting is somewhat better.