Catskill Park

Camera movement was horrible, like parkinson disease, gave me vertigo the first 30 minutes

I think high school drama class students could have delivered a more convincing portrayal of the main characters in this movie. The acting is forced, almost comedic in parts where the film is supposed to be serious and suspenseful. The constant arguing between the two male friends early in the movie is annoying and it made me want to turn it off after about 15 minutes. Although painful to watch, I kept at it and finally some action took place around the 30 minute mark. However, the film goes downhill from there and this found footage novelty isn't worth your time. The effects are lame and the camera angle of the characters running through the forest in the dark is unrealistic; the lens is too far away from the actor for him to be holding it with his hands. It's obvious a third party non-cast member was holding the camera in front of him. Skip this piece of garbage and save your time.

I enjoyed this movie. It might have been low budget but the acting was good and the movie had high tension throughout and it was creepy. I would recommend it to all science fiction fans.

If any effort had been put into this at all... even the slightest bit, I would have given it a better score.

But this is the worst kind of ultra-cheap "let's make a movie because who knows, some suckers will pay to see it and we'll at least get our $15 investment back" tripe.

Shame that when they 'found' the footage, they couldn't find a light, some dialogue (and no, screaming, shrieking drunkenly at each other, crying, and sniffing don't count), some even remotely likeable characters, or perhaps some action aside from bumbling around the woods in near complete darkness.

Seriously: this was so bad, I refused to waste more than 15 minutes on it. I jumped forward several times out of curiosity, and every single scene was a couple of idiots stumbling around in the dark woods crying and dribbling crap, and not making any headway.

My advice? Go watch grass grow. It's 200x more exciting, and you'll be getting in touch with nature.

So much wasted potential, even for the overdone 'found footage' genre. Needs much more of a build-up to the "scary parts", I use that term loosely...it just dives right in less than halfway through, and the first part is annoying picking and bickering. I have no idea how it ends and I don't even care enough to skip forward through the boring parts more than I already have. I don't understand why, if there is ONE camera, it keeps switching to different views in a matter of seconds, it's distractingly obvious there are camera people there and it's HEAVILY edited. No one in a forest would waste their battery on bickering.