The Phoenix Tapes '97

I initially thought I was about to watch a documentary, being as it was in the Documentary section on Amazon Video. It seemed a little odd to me that they were showing extended footage with no dialogue from a narrator. Once I realized what I was getting myself into I decided to sit back and enjoy the ride. It was different from all other found footage movies I've seen. Well done on the bait and switch!

This movie is technically well done, it looks authentic and even tries to cover some of the basic FF genre cliches.

The problem is that it tries to be too authentic. This is why it barely has any comprehensive story and the events that occur are not particularly interesting or scary. It's short, gets somewhat repetitive and overall doesn't feel like an experience, but rather a short YouTube pseudo-FF film. The "father's" acting wasn't great as well.

Can't say I wasted my time (since it's relatively short), but it was essentially unable to share any sort of tension, scare or emotion with me.

I would maybe recommend it to FF genre fans, but there are much better films here to enjoy.

I likes this one it's better than most of the genre. A little bit short. I've actually watched it more than once so that's saying something about the 'entertainment value'.

Could have used more footage of beer drinking!

4 annoying guys on a camping tour drinking alcohol and making jokes that aren't funny, until they get abducted from creatures, apparently from the mothership in the sky. Like one of these in Starcraft 2. The 4 annoying guys immediately start to panic and turn into 4 Sissies. Let's hope, they will never come back.

Very much suprised by this small gem of a film, Have a slight love/hate relationship with found footage films but this one stood out and as a SCIFI lover it gave me a slight biast i guess.

Would recomend.