Deprivation

The "found footage" genre may have been beaten to death,but once in awhile you find one that's really well done. This is one of them. The story of three guys losing their sanity due to sleep deprivation has been very well executed in this film. The acting is solid,and so is the story. I personally have worked on some films like this (not found footage horror) but lower budget films,and you can tell these guys put a lot of care and effort into this project. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND checking this creepy one out.

DEPRIVATION is the first low-budget film where I wondered where the budget actually went: supposedly, it cost $500,000, but the action takes place mostly in a large cottage, there are only four actors and three crew beside the the cast, including the actor/director/screenwriter, and apparently they did not even have a make-up artist to prevent the actors from still looking refreshed after days of supposed lack of sleep.

The premise, that three friends go to a remote cottage and try to film themselves staying up for 6 nights and 7 days could have been the source of excellent psycho-drama. Instead, the film goes the cheap route with mostly banal recollections, strange noises and unexplained happenings, and in the end it turns out it was all BS anyway.

I believe when someone is sleep-deprived, you can tell not just by their appearance but also by the change in their demeanor and speech. There was a little bit of that, but at no point could I let go of the impression that I was watching actors act.

This was a disappointment all the way through.

My biggest plot hole peeve is that they don't seem quite loopy/out of it enough for the length of time they have been without sleep. But the acting is surprisingly not awful--it fully seems like a group of buddies bickering and joking. I had questions,but they were answered in a surprising way! A refreshing take on the genre! Not a total waste of time!

I was lead astray by the positive reviews, this was wildly disappointing. The amount of unclaimed potential could have fed us all for months. If you're into movies where not much happens to characters you won't care about then this is for you.

I created an account just to warn people not to waste their time. If anyone gives this movie a good review they obviously have never watched a good film before, or wana help their buddy's out who helped make this. Like I said this is my first review and it's truly just to warn people...Plus the actors didn't even look tired... I'm like wow they look better than some single mother's juggling kids for one day, after not having 120 hours of no sleep LOL. I'm all for low budget but how this film ends just makes the whole film not worth watching. Not to mention NOTHING HAPPENS until literally the last 5 minutes. Unless you count someone crying once. Just wow I've never felt this let down before, and I've seen some pretty bad slop. Watch paint dry or grass grow you'll feel more fulfilled, trust me.