Fatos Estranhos

I was halfway through this movie before I realized I'd seen it before. Found footage is as found footage does. But - unlike 98% of FF movies - I thought the characters were believable enough, and I didn't hate them all. Yes, there was the usual bickering, screaming, frenetic running, and overall idiocy we've come to expect, but the creep factor was actually quite effective in some places. I still have no idea how you get lost in the woods when you have 5 sets of tracks in the snow you could follow back home or why you're still hanging onto the friggin' camera, but the bar is always low for found footage. Given the "competition" in the subgenre, this one isn't terrible.

As many of the other negative reviews have mentioned, the performances are really quite good. The concept is also interesting - an unidentified stalker filing the kids as they are filming each other. But I see two major downfalls in this film - one is the poor use of a terrible soundtrack over the last 1/3 of the film. It shouldn't have one at all (found footage, remember?) - and it's also badly done. WAY too loud, you can't even hear the dialogue through it. The other flaw is that too much time is spent on chaos without obvious cause. The group of friends start freaking out and running around too quickly, and then it just continues in that manner for what seems like an eternity. Of course, once everything falls apart, there's nowhere else to go.

It's a shame. Wasted opportunity.

I have nothing against found footage flicks let that be clear but this one here just doesn't deliver any frights or scary moments. What the makers were trying to do is to make a found footage that has a bit of a Blair Witch Project (1999) look. But this time it just didn't work out.

I had to wait around 50 minutes before the first weird thing really happens and even that part was rather stupid. You know the feeling, doors being slammed...Before that you have 5 friends meeting each other and going for a anniversary weekend at a house of one's aunt. But while driving out of New York some van is annoying them. They start filming the van but before they know it the van follows every move they make. But it isn't scary. Once at the house the van pops in again and they go to the woods, getting lost of course full of weird noises but again, nothing really happens. Once the night vision is switched on on the camera I thought, well now we are going to get it but just when it should happen, the movie is over...I thought. End credits and still over 10 minutes before the end. Oh yes, we do see that the van filmed them too, a thing we already knew from the VHS throughout the flick. And even that part I had something like, were is the evil thing? Well, the last minute we do hear some evil thing, already once heard in this flick. Fim over and I agree, an evil thing to watch. avoid it and that's a thing I don't say normally.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Why do people do this? in this "found footage" is dramatic background music at some points, not that often but it is there. IT IS FOUND FOOTAGE! STOP INSERTING BACKGROUND MUSIC!

For the movie itself, its not as good as other found footage movies like the newest exorcist movie "The Last Exorcism" which i personally really liked. It is definitely entertaining to watch even though its low budget and focuses a lot on the characters and not so much on the horror aspect, its investing lots of screen time into character development but kind of fails on that level, most of the movie is just the characters driving around and being one dimensional college kids. The "horror" is about 30-45 minutes long, its the last third of the movie where things start to get weird and kind of scary (not really though, there arnt big shockers in this flick).

i wouldn't really recommend this movie unless you are a hardcore horror movie fan or just in Halloween mood like myself. (sry for my bad English, i come from Germany)

Absolutely unwatchable.

I tried to power through but theres very little else other than screaming women.