The Levenger Tapes

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.

I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, because I've seen just about every "found footage" horror and sci-fi movie there is.

"Levenger Tapes" spends about 40 minutes being one of the worst of the genre I've seen, and ultimately, anyone who isn't a true fan of found footage probably won't like this. I mean, it comes complete with the obligatory car-trip opening in which the characters' witty banter is supposed to introduce and endear them to us. Cliches abound in the first half, and some aspects carry through, like characters making illogical choices.

But the movie turns out to be something I didn't expect, in terms of what the 'scare factor' was. Like another reviewer said, the film description on this site gives away more than perhaps it should, yet really doesn't give away the game. There was an interesting component that was underdeveloped, but pulled the movie out of the gutter for me. I urge you to stick with this one to the end.

One scene also managed to really freak me out, involving a flashlight in a bush--you'll know it when you see it.

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.

A found footage film. A somewhat original approach so for me it had some potential to be more than average if it wasn't for the atrocious acting.

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?