Uwharrie

Another found footage ripoff made by some clowns who wouldn't even pass for film student level. Yawn. This is not a film. This is a 43 minute water boarding exercise. Everything about this film is horrible; the acting, the cinematography, the writing. To begin with it is painful to watch. Think Blair Witch minus the originality and the budget (if you can believe that). This 43 minute "film" should have been no longer than 12 minutes. It is also an insult to the genre is purports to pay homage to, Bigfoot movies. The fact is there are a lot of Bigfoot movies out there that do it 1,000 times better. These people should never pick up a camera again, not even if it is attached to a phone. The dialogue is annoying and never once comes close to being funny or original. The acting is worse than a cold reading of the phone book. At least they had the common sense to put a female in the beginning of it.

If you want to see better Bigfoot found footage films, check out Bigfoot: Lost Coast Tapes, Bigfoot County, or even Night Claws (all of these released in the same year at least deserved to be called movies).

1/10

Not a terrible film for its low budget - one reviewer online wrote about the humorous dialog as a way to endure the problems of its being low budget. I don't have a problem with films being low budget. what I do hate is the continuous use of the word Dude. If you took that word out, the opening 30 minutes would have a total of about 3 minutes of dialog. Otherwise, the silliness of the movie is somewhat endearing. Being from NC myself, I enjoyed seeing local areas on screen and hearing the "local dialog" of the hunter.

The most redemptive aspect of the movie is the final 15 minutes of the movie. The dialog is hilarious. I enjoyed the Indiana Jones reference about halfway through, as well as the Bigfoot hunter parody in the last 12 minutes. It was very witty. In addition, the conversation the two main characters have about adapting to his new handicapped status is hilarious. This last few minutes redeems the whole of the movie.

Alright, I have to admit that I think I'm finally over the 'shaky cam' movies. It seems like one person had a hit with it and suddenly it's everyone's idea of scary. Well, there's a new movie from Christopher Flowers, Uwharrie, and, even though it's shaky cam, I can't decide if it's supposed to be scary or funny.

Two friends are taking a camping trip to celebrate one of their upcoming wedding. So, naturally, they decide to document the whole event on camera….it's perfectly natural! As they head out into the woods, first they see what they think might be a bear, but it's on its back legs. Then, they're accosted by frat boys and the next thing you know, Bigfoot is on the rampage and killing everyone in the middle of the woods….and there's a lot more people in the middle of the woods than you might imagine!

At first, I was sure that Flowers and company wanted me to take this movie seriously and be scared. Then, after an uncountable amount of 'dude's and 'awesome's later, I became convinced that maybe they were trying to be funny and campy. Then, in the end, I couldn't decide, it could be someone's bad idea seeing fruition, or it could be someone's idea to spoof these terrible 'homemade' movies….I'm going to assume that it's the later, and that Flowers and company had their tongues firmly in their cheeks and got what they were getting…otherwise, some of what was going on is just to absurd to be believable!