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.

Uglier than Blair Witch More poorly written than Skew Less original than Paranormal Activity

This is by far the worst found footage movie I've ever seen. The genre still has legs and there are still original movies using it but these creators decided to play it safe and remake the same tired plot thats been done a thousand time prior. Difference is they decided to make it an anthology which did the film no favours at all and just gave them an excuse why there is no character development or movie depth.

The TLDR of this is, if you're a horror fan and can't find somethig you haven't seen, this is an okay watch if you can excuse bad dialogue and low budget effects in exchange for decent jump scares. Full review follows.

Found footage is love it or hate. I love it. I've watched every single one I can find and let me tell you, there are some real crap fests out there. This is anthology style with a main story tying them together.

The dialogue in this is bad and the acting is worse but I can tell you that it's better than most of the found footage out there. The biggest issue you will see in found footage is cramming all the actual horror into the last 10 or 15 minutes. This one thankfully doesn't do that. The first sequence (not including the main story) made me jump a few times, it was my favorite. The second gets a little cheesy with the effects but you have to assume this was done with no budget, the third fell victim to the cheesy dialogue pretty hard core but it got me to jump once or twice.

P.s. the high rating reviews are suspect, I admit that.

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.