Fantastic!

Boring

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Blistering performances.

If you like gore, then Vlog is for you. Starring Brookes Marks who plays her Vlogger-self Brookes Marks, Vlog tells the story of our usually underwear-clad Vlogger who decides to post the day to day aspects of her life. These mainly include her ever increasing-in-numbers sex, I mean, love life. Brooke receives a strange recording directing her to a website that show a series of clips of her then boyfriends and friends being murdered. The clips are bloody, gruesome and creative. I loved them.There are discrepancies with the police work and club scene recordings but I can let those slide for the gore work.Brookes is annoying but I still liked her. I wanted to see who she got killed next. And then the ending came, which is pretty cool, but the films selling point is definitely the blood and gore and if not for these the whole movie would've been a bit blah.Worth a watch if you're into bloody scenes.

I had high hopes for this film before watching it as it seemed like an interesting premise, and the Saw connection was a bonus too.It started off okay and seemed like it was going somewhere good but the film was overall, a bit of a let down.The only positive was the gore, not enough to call this a gory film, i.e. Saw or Hostel, so it's not really even worth a watch for those who just want to see blood and guts.The "twist" at the end as somewhat annoying, although I had never guessed the outcome and it. But for some reason I just found it boring, maybe because the film had basically been boring up until this point.Also, there were some unrealistic parts such SPOILER: police not seeming to care and the fact that it couldn't be verified that a woman was murdered in a club full of people :SPOILERBy the end I was failing to see much a similarity to Saw, so I watched the end credits to actually see who was involved that I would have recognised from Saw. Low and behold there was no-one, it seems only production company is the same.Overall, it could have been a good film but it was a let down.

The trailers and previews imply this is a true story, even to the point of giving the lead character the same name as the actress playing the role. A lot of the movie is filmed as if it was a real video log, complete with the shaky, slightly out of focus recording.It isn't, and they give up on the pretense quickly.Minimal sex, minimal nudity, which seems odd for a porn star. Minimal blood, and a low body count, so you can't even watch it as a slasher movie.Little more to say. I can't even rate it as a guilty pleasure.If you really, really, really love Brooke Marks, rent it. If you have a buddy who loves Brooke Marks, buy him a copy. If you're wondering why I bothered to add this to the end of the review, it is because there is a ten line minimum on reviews, and I was done with this epic after only seven lines.Adding that will probably get this review discarded by The Powers That Be, but I really didn't have anything else the least bit useful to add.I suppose I could have recapped the plot of the movie, but if you watched the trailer, you already know pretty much everything I could tell you without spoiling what few surprises this movie has.

From the producers of SAW, VLOG is a groundbreaking extreme-horror film about a real-life webcam girl (Brooke Marks) whose online murder is not what it seems.I have some issues with this film. First and foremost, I recently watched a movie called "iCrime" wherein a web star gets kidnapped. The feel was very different, but I think the overall inspiration was the same. And in both cases, I think the idea of a vlog is really stupid. (This film can be defended, somewhat, because it was made three years ago... why it took this long to get released is beyond me.) I disliked Brooke Marks (the character, not the actress). Now, this is possibly the way I am supposed to feel. But she is everything that is wrong with a superficial, shallow culture. She uses people, sex is meaningless to her. She is vapid, and nothing more. When her friends start dying, I cannot feel much sympathy for her.I take issue with the way the police are presented. Even if the police at first think it is a hoax or prank, once they begin to think otherwise, there should be a little better police work. Maybe an IP address can be untraceable, but I am fairly confident they could trace a phone call. And blood splatter, no matter how well you clean, is probably detectable with Luminol. I find it hard to believe that anyone can be completely vanished.Those concerns aside, the selling point for the film (and what saves it fro man even lower score) is the gore. Great blood, guts, decapitation, explosion (and thanks for explaining how to make fertilizer bombs). The film takes such a drastic turn that it almost seems like a film within a film. But, hey, if it was not for these murder sequences the entire movie would not be worth a pile of festering dog spit.As you can see from my summary, they are trying to play up the connection to "Saw". But there really is not a connection, at least no obvious one. Twisted Pictures was involved, but there is no actor, director or writer from the "Saw" franchise involved with this one, so if you need more "Saw" action, go rent "The Collector".