Synopsis
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
2011 Directed by Howie Askins
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
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I'm going to give this a bit of an extra push for the sheer gumption of it. The incredibly generic setup is a thin facade, lending to me speculating quite a bit early on. Where it winds up going though is a baffling, mile a minute mashup of everything the writer thought it could have turned out to be when they started brainstorming. It's a delirious and bloody excuse for an extended action set piece, moving beyond the need to give you any real answers as it acknowledges its own absurdity.
It's hard for me to give this a really good rating, as I had a lot of problems with it. But what I can concede is that at a…
Suppose the director had a catalogue of ideas n didn’t think he’d make another movie so bundled them all into this one. Some work! Some don’t! One moment with a blaring earsplitting noise in a campsite sent shivers alllll the way through me so it supersedes most horrors in that sense. Super weird unwavering relentless chaotic mayhem, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the hell out of it despite fairly generic tendencies, brass as balls n the sheer moxie gutsiness had me hooked
Possibly one of my favorite found footage films. It starts off like soooooo many others in this dub niche, with a bunch of friends taking a trip to the woods, whilst one of them is making a documentary about one of the guys on the trip. They set camp, crack the booze, joke about sex and then, slowly, shit starts to happen. But where many are satisfied with a couple of distortion effects and off camera screams, this one just builds and builds and builds.
One of them goes missing, the others go searching, and it just starts going bat shit bonkers, throwing more and more and more weird shit at the audience AND delivering! Yes, the shakiness and digital…
Horror Hunt #57 (March 2023)
3. 2011
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Y'know, for being a found footage film that was allegedly shot on a 12 thousand dollar budget after the director felt inspired by Paranormal Activity this ain't too bad. It is even a bit of fun I dare say.
At first this follows the usual found footage trappings. A quartet of dudes and dudettes head into the American wilderness to shoot a documentary. What's the documentary about? It's unclear, I'm not even sure the characters know what it's about. Anyhow, the documentary crew soon find themselves in deep shit when their campsite is besieged by a strange monstrosity. Some people get torn apart, and some others escape. The people that escape soon…
A found footage movie, made by somebody who actually took time to study the genre and apply its strengths, EVIDENCE; or, as I like to call it The Big Foot Project, is a relatively brief feature that mixes the most famous found footage film with the pacific northwest's most famous hairy Henderson. About 3/4's into the film, when you expect the final girls to stand in the corner of the Blair Witch's basement, the film turns into a Resident Evil haunted hayride attraction.
The jump scares made my wife yell and jump so there's that too, haha. 👻☠🕸
Another found footage film about four friends who go off into the woods to make their own handheld cam documentary. Ho hum.
But wait!
Evidence is nothing like any other found footage film i've seen previously. For a start the young cast are slightly more believable than usual which is always a help, rather than the constant bickering and in fighting they are clearly friends.
Then about half way through the films slender 77 minute run time things take a turn. A turn i never predicted or could have guessed. Even as the film's end credits roll you'll find yourself gripped to work out exactly what is going on.
I'm not going to spoil anything here, but to anyone who…
Evidence has one of the weakest initial reasons for being found footage ever - one friend wants to document another on his first ever camping trip, and they bring their girlfriends along.
OK…
As I’ve said before, I avoid camping, but if I ever did go again I would document everything on my phone, because certainly I would wind up dead and you’d have to investigate the footage to determine what happened to me - which was probably my fault.
At first since they rent an RV I thought they might not be morons, but no, once they get to their destination they hike into the woods to camp, apparently unaware that’s the devil’s choice of recreation. Then they…
The two most terrifying words in the horror genre: "Found Footage." As in, "Jesus, not another found footage movie!!" That's what you will probably be muttering to yourself if you start watching this low budget, asshole-kids-go-camping movie. You'll spend almost an hour rewatching every found footage cliche that's permeated horror since way back in the damnable Blair Witch days.
But then things get weird. The techniques stay the same (Worse, even. Apparently their camera is a piece of crap that is constantly cutting out and getting fuzzy). But suddenly weirdness starts to pile on weirdness, and all we get by way of explaination is whatever we can quickly piece together as our protagonists run at full tilt, screaming and shaking…
Some of the most seizure-inducing shaky cam I've ever seen and a plot that escalates so dramatically in the final 15 minutes it makes the first hour or so seem utterly pointless. The main monster is beyond rubbish and the characters all suck a fat one but hey, it's low budget horror and I wasn't really expecting much more.
I totally adored this frenzied found footage flick when I first watched it, the rollercoaster ride it suddenly propels you into was pretty damn wild but I haven't watched the movie since, afraid that I would be disappointed. But, yesterday I did, and it still holds up pretty damn well. Too bad about the first 45 minutes with one of the most excrutiatingly douchebaggy main documentarians ever. Still, that finale is kick ass.
Ambitious found footage horror that throws in everything but the kitchen sink. This one aimed high and maybe over shot. But it is fun to see how crazy it gets.