The Fear Footage

Saw this at Grindsploitation film fest a while ago and it was awful. The one good thing that came from it was that me and my mates had something to joke about over drinks afterwards. It was so stupid I've never seen such a mess of a movie, clearly everyone involved has never done this before and it shows. Go to film school, take influence from other directors, or quit. This was horrendous.

I love found footage, and I love low budget films, but this one misses the mark at nearly every turn. It's an anthology with a interwoven story tying everything together, like the V/H/S movies do. The first segment here has a few decent scares, but they are jump scares. The rest of the segments were an absolute chore to get through and incredibly disappointing. The story that ties them all together actually has a really cool premise that is pretty creepy. The issue was that by the end, when it actually starts to get creepy, I was so checked out from being irritated and bored. The only redeeming part of this film was ruined for me. I gave this film 3 stars because the interwoven story actually had creativity and potential.

Found Footage movies are usually bad lets not kid ourselves here they are the first port of call for zero budget filmmakers and they tend to absolutely stink. The Fear Footage is an example of this, the money clearly had absolutely no money no actors and nobody with the ability to write a good script. I think its the height of disrespect that the creators didn't even acknowledge the cast on this page as well and the hefty number of 10's and identically worded reviews/cloned reviews kills the films credibility even more. Despite there being lots of bad found footage movies there are some good ones so skip over this and find one of them.

While away on business I need to occupy my time and film screenings are a great one. I managed to watch this little gem during something called the creepy crypt or something to that effect. It's one of those found footage things and after seeing several good reviews online I was quite excited when leaving my hotel room to go and see it. The crowd were lively, the location was a bit cramp but okay but the movie was terrible. I wasn't going to leave a review but the creators are very vocal about putting reviews on here and/or redbox so I indulge. It's a dark gloomy film with no character its all been done before and I don't understand why people make these movies. Found footage is dead, its been done time and time again and needs a rest.

To summarize it's not as bad as some of the stuff my hubby has made me watch over the years but since I had netflix in my hotel room I should have stayed there.

I love extremely obscure homegrown and indie projects, especially found footage ones, so I decided to support the creator and watch this little film. A lot of people have called it things like "one of the scariest movies" and "one of the best found footage films," it is absolutely not any of those things. Some have called it "generic" and "trashy" and "amateur," and it is all of those things to a certain extent. That being said, I found this film to be quite charming for what it was. I really enjoyed the first two segments, and the frame narrative was very interesting, although I felt that the third segment wasn't very good. The overuse of jumpscares is also really cheesy and lame, although that's mainly just because I'm not easily startled. I wasn't expecting anything on the level of the VHS series or the Blair Witch, so I'm able to look past its lower quality, in fact I actually have a soft spot for trashy indie stuff. It's probably in large part due to my rose-tinted glasses when it comes to found footage and indie stuff, but yeah, fun film.