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The couple rave reviews are obviously fake, but the movie is not complete garbage or unwatchable by any means.

The acting is about average but adequate. The cinematography and sound design, while not great, are serviceable and do nothing to add or detract from the experience. The gory practical effects are actually decent, but the bigfoot itself (which is rarely seen) is pretty shotty.

The characters are blatantly stereotypical with the corporate shill, self centered journalist, ex-marine badass, the smoking hippie, and the good-natured scientist who's only there for the much needed money.

The story itself starts out very cliche, kind of like 'Anaconda' but with a bigfoot. The first three quarters of the film feels very much like this, but the story takes a strange turn at that point and it becomes something different entirely. I give them props for trying something a little different here, but doesn't quite feel like it's part of the same movie and very out of place.

Overall, it is watchable but kind of loses itself at the end. It's not going to win any awards and is fairly forgettable, but if you want to turn your mind off for a little bit, you could definitely do much worse. 4.5/10

This movie started off really well and moves along at a nice pace but the ending really lets it down, could have been so much better. decent performances from some of the actors and the nice premise. for me the ending let it down, felt like they couldnt come up with a good idea. worth a watch but dont expect to much

The movie started off as your typical "made for TV" movie where careers go to die. And that's fine. We see a billion of them, some are okay, others are just garbage fires. This one was shaping up to be an average monster slasher in the woods type. Some shaky cam, but mostly regular movie shots. And it was okay. Nothing great, but okay.

And then they added something that came out of nowhere and made absolutely no sense, and just completely derailed everything. Honestly, up until that end part of the movie, it was passable time wasting. But then it just got terrible and nonsensical. And then AFTER that, we got an ending that actually fit. So that last section just had absolutely no place in the film.

It's a shame. Definitely not worth watching. Completely ruined by a pointless addition.

Film crew goes deep in the forest searching for Big Foot after campers are found dead. Cliches abound. Production value isn't bad, but boring as most of the characters are one dimensional and stereotypical for this type of movie, and the special effects are largely nonexistent. Oh, and the twist ending does nothing to better the film: it actually makes it worse. Really don't bother.

In this day and age to make such a bad movie. It's ridiculous right from the get go...i.e. the reporter is going bush and she's wearing a white dress, high heels and hand bag. This movie is utter garbage with really bad acting.

"Hoax" is part slasher, part creature feature and all backwoods horror. The story starts of strong, with slasher heavy events that are very reminiscent of the beginning of 2009's "Friday The 13th". The overall arc is paced a little slow after that strong opening, it is filled with unnecessary exposition and character building. The focus becomes more about attitudes and drama.

The story does pick up just after the hour- fifteen mark with a return to strong creature inspired horror to finish things off, and a cool twist that leaves things open to be explored later. The acting is pretty decent, several cast members are recognizable genre actors, the development of the characters is pretty decent. Some of the dialog is passe, and empty, creating a bit of a drag on the gravitas.

Now the horror elements are a blend of CGI and tight practical effects that offer up a bit of indie grindhouse. A lot does happen off screen before letting us in on the results. So the film never dives full-length into splatter territory. Still, I liked more about the horror in this movie than I didn't. At to that the cool cinematography and atmosphere created by the locations and Hoax is a fun flick for creature feature fans.

Now there is a twist that comes in the end that pulls in backwoods horror ground that was a great surprise. I didn't see it coming but I loved it. "Hoax" does have some flaws, a few characters are weak and lack substance. At times the dialog that seems to dominate the breadth of the film's story at times seems to do more to stretch film length than to add to the movie's plot. Overall though it is a fun indie horror some quality moments.

Do not waste your time with this garbage, It's hard even to watch a trailer let alone watch the whole movie.

Unfortunately this film has attracted alot of dislike and hate from viewers which i can partly understand as if you're looking for a big budget with a new take on Big foot, then i guess i would feel a little disappointed, but this film is for your real 1980's horror fan, a little treat to take us back when we were young. It's middle budget with nice location and the story has some twists, some very well done gore and moves quite quickly. If you're a real horror film fan you will notice the numerous horror references, with great nods to creature features and slasher movies, amongst others, also with a small cameo of Adrienne Barbeau, and featuring Brian Thompson & Ben Browder, with a great music score from Alan Howarth ... if don't know who these people are, then this movie is not for you!

I was very surprised to see such a low rating (currently 3.6) when I came here to leave my own rating (then decided to leave a review as well). It's almost like a lot of the people who are leaving the 1 star reviews have never seen a truly awful horror film before. Birdemic anyone? There's plenty of 80s SOV horror films that are the definition of terrible.

I've seen thousands of bad horror movies, and truly enjoy hundreds of them. Zombie 4: After Death is one of my favorite horror films ever. I'm a huge fan of the old 70s and 80s Italian horrors (Zombie 4 being one of them). I love nearly all of Lucio Fulci's filmography, along with Hell of the Living Dead, Burial Ground, Monster Dog, Paganini Horror, Howling 2, Howling III, Howling V: The Rebirth, The Beast Must Die, The Werewolf and the Yeti, The Dark Side of the Moon, Spookies, The Slayer, Demon Wind, The Final Terror, Cannibal Apocalypse, and many others. So I know what truly bad horror films are, and Hoax isn't that bad. In fact, I rather enjoyed it.

I've really been getting into Bigfoot/Yeti films recently. There's a lot more of them than I realized. I own The Legend of Boggy Creek, Boggy Creek (2010), Exists, Willow Creek, Creature from Black Lake, Abominable, Clawed, and a few others. Hoax will be added to my physical media collection at some point.

A lot of people thought it started out good, then took a wrong turn. I rather enjoyed the twist near the end. It was unexpected and different. I thought the acting was good for the most part, and even when it wasn't it was still adequate enough for my taste. I'm glad I decided to watch it - it was well worth my time. So if you're like me, enjoy watching Bigfoot movies, or tend to like what mainstream people would consider bad movies, then give Hoax a shot.

I didn't expect much doing into this. It kind of looked like your typical Sy-Fy channel quality movie with a Blair Witch movie meets Bigfoot type of storyline. It went pretty much as as expected for about 3/4 of the film. Crew reaches location, crew starts exploring, weird things start happening and then people start getting killed one by one.

Then we reached the last 1/4 of the movie and thing really kind of went off rail for me. I won't spoil it but really there was no real conclusion. Things just kind of changed, and not for the better.

Acting wasn't great but not terrible. Effects are ok. Basically this is a film that you'll forget about by the next day.

The cast and description caught my eye so I gave it a try, The cinematography is good, I don't blame the actors. The film doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. The film references a lot of other much better movies. the characters are flat stereotypes and not even good at that, I've seen some of these actors in other things and they are fine, so I can only assume it's on the weight of the director. The dialogue is atrocious. Characters' motivations are not established other than the HotScientist trope character. Side plots are brought up but never really done. Yes, this movie might be right up someone's alley. Personally It was a waste of my time and effort. It needed a re-write and a better director for the actors. Looking him up it seems he's done a lot of second unit work, and it feels like that. most of the scenery is shot wonderfully.

I like to watch Brain Thompson in almost anything he has done and I still cannot find this on dvd or blu ray. I did find it on You Tube, and saw it twice. So if you want to watch it yourself and form an opinion, go ahead, I did not care for how the movie ended. It is a minor movie, possible a C movie, worth one watch if needing to kill time. Pauly Shore movies are F which means not worth watching.

Movie keeps you intrigued but the ending is not satisfactory. Typical characters but ending will give you a surprise and disappoint you at the same time. It's good for one time watch

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie as I appreciated it for what it was - a well done film from a talented young director with creative twists and nods to historical horror films of the past. It has a setup that we've seen before (yes) but I think that's part of what makes this a great movie. It's a true nod to yesteryear horror with a new twist.

Characters: Some of the reviews below trash this because of the stereotypical setup of the characters. True - we've seen this setup before, but this worked for some of my favorite movies of all time! I enjoy seeing the stereotypical hot-biatch wearing a dress in the woods and the frathole dude who everyone including the audience despises. I think that this makes the movie all the more relatable and I enjoyed it this way.

Music: The score totally makes this movie and it should as it was written by Allen Horwith of John Carpenter fame and the same tension and mystery are translated through this film. Loved it.

Plot: As previously stated - we're seen the general plotline before (a bunch of folks - most of them out of place - looking for something that they probably shouldn't) but it's been the recipe for some of my all time favorites. It throws you back into vintage horror and gives a gentle nod to some of the best. It has some twists and turns with a good amount of suspense and gore mixed in. Definitely enjoyable but not trailblazing into new domains if that's what you're looking for.

Cast: Again, if you're looking for a multi-million dollar budget film with big names, this probably isn't the flick for you. Brian Thompson plays the character he was meant to play again with great delivery and Adrienne Barbeau looks wonderful in her cameo as well. There are some solid performances by young talent that impressed me.

Overall: If you're a true horror/suspense fan and appreciate films like Halloween or The Fog, love catching easter eggs and nods to previous films and are looking for something young and fresh - you should appreciate Hoax. It's a good Saturday night fun film that vintage horror films will enjoy.

Beware, this opens with a truly appalling bunch of manicured, horny catwalk 'campers' acting like dicks - but mercifully, events leave them behind very quickly and become a lot more interesting.

The director's homage to the horror genre loses points for wearing its inspirations on its sleeve and ultimately resulting in a rudderless film. What appears to be one thing, becomes another, which in turn becomes another, which certainly keeps the audience on its toes.

It's an enjoyable ride, and you can't really ask for much more than that, cheeky even in its myriad 'homages' - but the final revelation will divide some. My score is 6 out of 10.

This movie is so bad my television exploded three minutes into it.

If you can get this thing for free do it! The Producers Actors and Director and anyone else involved in the making of this garbage does not deserve your money.