Atrocious
2010 Directed by Fernando Barreda Luna
Synopsis
A local legend becomes a terrifying reality
Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. They used to record whatever they did. Atrocious shows the last five days of this family, and the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.
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If The Blair Witch Project and The Shining had gone on holiday to Spain...done lots of sex and had a Spanish baby...
Atrocious would be it!
Nice and creepy with some quick bursts of blood, a few jumps and a couple of really dark scenes that make for a decent show.
As it is "found footage", shot mostly in nightvision it can be quite hard on the eyes. Especially if you need to read the subtitles, but that doesn't detract too much from the experience.
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“Debora, who is Elvira?”
-Doctor [Voice] (Rafael Amaya)Film 8 of 35 of The Found Footage/Mockumentary Project.
I was thinking about making a remark on how atrocious this film was, but couldn’t because it isn’t. Whilst it’s certainly nothing particularly ground-breaking, Atrocious isn’t a bad little film at all. It’s marked by a handful of fair performances from young talent, visually attractive locations and a few sincere scares.
The plot is laid out before us as the film begins; the Quintanilla family were found dead in their country vacation home. Police recovered 37 hours of footage leading up to their demise, and we are then treated to their last five days. The directors manage to create a fair amount of…
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The title says it all.
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I have never seen a movie where the title doubles this perfectly as a review.
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Hey hey found footage... we meet again. Dark, creepy places and the lurking, unknown threat seems to be great and easy formula for the FF horror genre. It works with this movie initially but is soon over. One of the big problems with this sub genre is: how do we make it plausible for the characters to keep on filming? Regardless of what happens and the horrors some people may encounter they just feel the urge to pick up the camera and keep it rolling. This movie has this problem a lot, and doesn't solve it. However, it does features a main character doing stupid stuff so maybe this would make it plausible? Normally, this kind of movie features some type of scary twist/shock in the end, it is what this FF stuff is great at. Instead of that, this movie presents some lame ending and the movie lands flat. Bo!
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From October: 31 Days, 31 Horrors
If a film is only 70 or so minutes long it really must make the most of it. This, does not. Nothing scary happens at all during Atrocious and that is, well, atrocious. Boring boring boring. Unoriginal, stupid and doesn't even make sense. Slow and dull. Did I mention it isn't scary and it's very boring? Oh I did. How ridiculous of me.
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I still struggle to get my head round how director and writer Fernando Barreda Luna came to settle on this title for his film, given its most common definition in the English language. It was left open to all kinds of branding and needed to be one hell of film to avoid the cheap shots no likely thrown at it by its many disappointed viewers.
This is another ‘found footage’ horror movie that first made the rounds earlier in the year on the festival circuit, picking up some worthwhile reviews. Being the first feature from the young director, this was clearly made on a ridiculously small budget so it needed some real sparks of imagination to make the most of…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A rare example how a lack of dialogue can hurt found footage. The absence of the character's participation avoids the issue of possibly annoying voices, but at the same time makes the silent drawn out portions of the film seem longer than they are. In the end, not very memorable.
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I have never seen a movie where the title doubles this perfectly as a review.
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Pretty decent found footage horror, very short but I enjoyed it.
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If The Blair Witch Project and The Shining had gone on holiday to Spain...done lots of sex and had a Spanish baby...
Atrocious would be it!
Nice and creepy with some quick bursts of blood, a few jumps and a couple of really dark scenes that make for a decent show.
As it is "found footage", shot mostly in nightvision it can be quite hard on the eyes. Especially if you need to read the subtitles, but that doesn't detract too much from the experience.
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Simple yet deliciously creepy found footage horror. The main character is a bit of an asshole but the whole thing works really well
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Another 'found footage' film ala Blair Witch Project about a brother and sister who accompany their parents on a holiday to their childhood vacation home. With a couple of video cameras they are determined to get to the bottom of a local legend about the ghost of a girl in a red coat that was seen in the forest. Except for a couple of scares this adds nothing new to the genre.
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Spanish horror film following two siblings Christian and his sister July, two budding paranormal investigators who post their videos onto YouTube. When they are taken on a family visit to their holiday home in the country they decide to investigate the local legend of the ghost of a girl who is said only to appear at night and who died in horrible circumstances. Once there things start going very wrong........
With a title like that the film is asking for trouble if it's not very good.
And it isn't.
It's not atrocious but it's close. We are in found footage territory again and it falls into all the traps of the particular style. The camera falling onto the floor? People…