The Dark Tapes

The Dark Tapes is a four story horror anthology. I'm a big fan of horror anthologies and the stories in this one are all original and had surprise endings that I didn't see coming. There are a lot of found footage films out there, but The Dark Tapes felt fresh and was the most unique found footage film I've seen in a long time. The stories are well written and entertaining and I think this film proves that you don't have to have a big budget to make a good movie. There are some genuinely creepy moments and not a whole lot of blood and gore,so I would think this film would appeal to a wider audience than some of your "typical" horror films. This movie is anything but typical. If you like horror and want to see found footage presented in a new way, definitely check out this anthology. It's a lot of fun.

I love anthology films, especially when they are of the horror variety, but this one was just a complete failure from beginning to end. The acting was atrocious for most of the segments, the script was inane and poorly realized, and the way the film was edited was so amateurish, I wonder if the director hired one of his kids to do it. The only saving grace about this film was the SFX. Some of the creatures really did look frightening, and had the film focused more on them, it wouldn't have been so bad. Instead, we got a lot of crappy acting, a lot of simplified dialogue, and some horrendous pacing. Not a quality film in the slightest, anyone would do themselves a favor and avoid this travesty and never speak of it again.

I really didn't expect too much from this movie. I can honestly say that I have never seen an anthology horror movie that I like, and I can add this movie to that list. Not great acting, pretty cheesy dialogue, obviously a low budget, and costumes lacking imagination

HOWEVER, the stories had some potential! Given a better budget and more time (i.e. extending an individual story into a full length movie), and stop the stupid handi-cam/skype filming style, which has been done enough now movie creators, there could have been a half-way decent horror movie here! But they made terrible choices and it was bad.

Student-film quality. really terrible. watched about an hour of it. could tell it sucked immediately. not scary. poorly made on almost every level (1 viewing)

Honestly, there is bad, and then there's bad. I rarely give a movie such a low rating, but this one deserves it. I haven't looked into the background of this yet, but it seems no one, and I mean no one associated with this movie has ever done one before. the script reads like it was written by the failing high school student in AV class, the editing is all over the place, to the point that you can't even tell what's going on anymore, none of the movies even remotely come together in a coherent plot, the sound effects are WAY over the top, I can go on and on. I don't understand how these people get money to do this, its the worst filming imaginable. and the worst part? some of the stories had potential! this found footage-type movie is just overdone, and this movie actually gave me a headache.