Mortal Remains

I thought it's pretty great watching this movie with good acting throughout. Sort of a documentary (fake) about a mysterious cult horror director from late 60's, early 70's that went missing after a while and the story about his last movie called Mortal Remains. Now it's a pretty believable story because of good writing of the acts and decent acting. Keeps you hooked till the end...supposed to have been shot right before The Blair Witch Project, mentioned couple times but has nothing to do with it. Gives you that serious tone of the story that's going on because of it. Enjoyable movie.

A fine addition to the FF genre. The best thing going for this film is it's feel of authenticity...you can almost get immersed in the story and forget that it is fiction...which is want you want when the movie is questioning whether the original movie was real or not...

I would call myself an avid film watcher... especially of horror films. But I also watch the latest Marvel releases and my wife forces me to watch any rom/com on Netflix the minute one comes out. Story lines people! It seems that every Marvel film, every horror film and especially every rom/com I see reuses the same old plot. Which is why I found this film refreshing. At first I thought it was interesting because I thought it was real. Then I realized it was one of those mockumentary movies. Then I started second guessing myself again. A movie that made me THINK? What a novel idea.

I have been a fan of found footage since watching The Blair Witch in the cinema, yes we could actually go out and watch a film back then. I have seen so many films in the years since then, all types. I still look for the non famous films, usually these are cheaply made and much better than the 100 million + that Hollywood thinks it needs to make a hit, which usually they are duds, check out the new Wonder Woman film, what a waste of money. So came across this little number yesterday. It wasn't nothing new that hasn't been done before, then again what has? The movie is a part documentary and part film, so okay I thought it was okay, then the first part in the cemetery, in which I found the film itself seemed to pick up it's pace. As it went along, the film went really good but I thought it came unstuck at the end. Now it completed the film, if you follow the film it makes sense, I won't give it away. I thought it would have been better with a different ending.

The mythos and world-building of this faux-documentary are amazingly well crafted! The lengths that the creators have gone to in order to build mystery and intrigue around the project are impressive and very well executed.

The same can be said of the film itself. Well written, well crafted, and well executed.

I really don't have any complaints at all about this one. If you like found footage, chances. are you will really enjoy "Mortal Remains."