The Levenger Tapes

I found this and "Always Watching" while browsing, and both seemed like similar found footage movies, and based on reviews watch "Always Watching" first- in short - this was much better. Usually if I fall asleep during a movie, it doesn't get revisited, and I was struggling to stay awake when I put this on, but it seemed interesting so I actually put it back on the next day. The movie was technically sound (hate when the sound and video are crappy), and kept me guessing and on edge. There were a number of instances where the movie could've gone in more than one direction, and it legitimately had me guessing as to who was in on what. For me, the true answer to how good a movie is (especially Netflix or Prime freebies) is "would I watch it knowing what I know after watching it?", and yes, I would definitely thought this was worth the time and would recommend it. Don't waste your time with "Always Watching". That's one I would not watch after knowing what I know now.

Not too bad I guess. For some reason, I really like found footage movies, but I do have one question. Why are the detectives watching "tapes" when the footage was all shot on digital hard drive cameras? Did someone take the time to transfer all of it to VHS?

In some aspects the director managed to make the most out of very little. It shows how seemingly insignificant and trivial events can look very threatening in some circumstances. Sadly, the rest of the movie was very sub par. You see that quite often. A movie maker has a talent and good ideas, and delivers on them, but he messes up the paint-by-numbers parts. Well, creativity is not enough. You have to deliver the whole package.

These sorts of movies are just crap, if you gave 1000 movie cameras to 1000 monkeys you would have 1000 movies as good as this one or better.

The trailer for this was so promising, it genuinely made this movie look terrifying and I was so keen to watch it.

I watched the entire thing, I rarely stop movies half way through, BUT I was a little bored here and almost tempted to stop it. The movie is rife with tonnes of unforgivable plot holes, it started off incredibly boring with characters I didn't find myself clicking with or rooting for, I kinda wanted them all to die 🤷‍♀️ Anyway, it's a bit of a snoozefest but had a lot of potential.