The Fear Footage 2: Curse of the Tape

A couple of years ago I watched a movie called the Fear Footage and it became a bit of a running joke between me and my friends. We'd say that the movie scale was Fear Footage to Shawshank Redemption, that it was the movie all bad movies should be measured by and made the Sharknado films look like the Godfather series.

Well because it became such a big deal for us we all tracked their being a sequel and laughed in awe at the trailer, when my man pal Jason bought it for me as a joke present we excitedly sat together to watch this inevitable masterpiece and laughed from start to finish.

Like the first one it looks awful, the whole thing is so amateurish it makes Birdemic look like it had Hollywood level special effects teams. The sound guy must have fallen asleep because there was no consistency there and the story? Well I'm being nice saying there is one, this is an unintentional comedy almost like a two Ronnies sketch show but with bad lighting.

Is it worse than the first? I'd say they're on the same level and arguably the same film really. I'd like to thank Ricky Umberger and the whole team behind these movies, I haven't laughed this hard in years.

Keep your awful student looking films coming!

Have you ever seen a found footage movie before? If so you'll know they follow a strict formula.

Introduce the characters Take them to a haunted location Weird things happen People go missing They justify why they're still recording Running, screaming, night vision Camera falls to the ground, credits roll

That describes easily 99% of found footage features, they're cheap and cheerful to make therefore indie filmakers with zero money or talent pound them out like hotcakes. The first Fear Footage movie was a great example of this, non-existent budget, zero enjoyment and an all round awfully made movie brought to us by people with no imagination or skill at crafting a story.

Fear Footage 2 is almost the same movie as the first just with minor tweeks. Regardless it still ticks the above boxes and is yet another found footage movie that can be dumped onto the pile of forgettable awfulness with all the rest.

Until this found footage phase ends I suggest you avoid them and watch something with more substance.

Is this a good movie? Not really. Is it as bad as the reviews suggest? Absolutely not. So what is it? It's about as average as average gets in found footage horror. The premise is great if you are one of the few who enjoyed the 1st, like myself. It has some pretty good moments, just too many BLAH moments. Will you revisit it or even remember it a month from now? Probably not. But 1 star? No.

I waited for something to happen, I assumed the film was a slow burn to some incredible payoff then after little over an hour the credits rolled. Where was the film? Where abouts was the content, the horror, the storyline? It has none of these things, it's a series of laughable attempts at horror imagery with little to no connection. There is absolutely no story here, it's just mess.

Not an academy award winning movie, but not understanding the overly harsh negative reviews. Also it them read as being personal or written by people who don't enjoy found footage. If you wanted the first movie, and don't like found footage as so many others here have stated, then I would not reccomend this for you. Otherwise, it was entertaining, and very low budget. I don't consider low budget to be an insult though. Most of the interesting movies I've seen lately are low budget and this one is no different. Better than the first one. Only didn't give more stars because it really isn't that phenomenal. Just a good movie to pass the time.