The Barbados Project

When the newest innovation to the found footage genre is showing TikTok, it's a hard pass for me. I get what they were trying for, but there's too many moments of me waiting to pause and say "WTF is happening ???" for me to even care.

A no-spoilers review by Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast

This is an ambitious little one-hour found footage film that blends Cloverfield-style scares with occasionally good (but mostly not) acting and a really, really bad script. The end result is a SyFy-grade showing.

The dialogue, both in writing and delivery, hold this movie back, as does the unfortunately handful interactions of the camera operator. At times the acting begins to shine with something approaching suspension of disbelief, but the script just doesn't allow for it.

The real surprise of this movie is the surprisingly good CGI monsters and inventive footage integration screens. The found footage shots of cool "what IS that" nonsense runs throughout the end credits, which I thought was a really delightful addition.

Ultimately, this movie is a silly, low-budget, found footage kaiju flick. It's a 3/10 movie, but it gets a bonus IMDB star for not going on too long and for being filmed in totally badass Barbados!

• Josh of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast.