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On January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no ... Read allOn January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence - until now.On January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence - until now.
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Why do people do this? in this "found footage" is dramatic background music at some points, not that often but it is there. IT IS FOUND FOOTAGE! STOP INSERTING BACKGROUND MUSIC!
For the movie itself, its not as good as other found footage movies like the newest exorcist movie "The Last Exorcism" which i personally really liked. It is definitely entertaining to watch even though its low budget and focuses a lot on the characters and not so much on the horror aspect, its investing lots of screen time into character development but kind of fails on that level, most of the movie is just the characters driving around and being one dimensional college kids. The "horror" is about 30-45 minutes long, its the last third of the movie where things start to get weird and kind of scary (not really though, there arnt big shockers in this flick).
i wouldn't really recommend this movie unless you are a hardcore horror movie fan or just in Halloween mood like myself. (sry for my bad English, i come from Germany)
For the movie itself, its not as good as other found footage movies like the newest exorcist movie "The Last Exorcism" which i personally really liked. It is definitely entertaining to watch even though its low budget and focuses a lot on the characters and not so much on the horror aspect, its investing lots of screen time into character development but kind of fails on that level, most of the movie is just the characters driving around and being one dimensional college kids. The "horror" is about 30-45 minutes long, its the last third of the movie where things start to get weird and kind of scary (not really though, there arnt big shockers in this flick).
i wouldn't really recommend this movie unless you are a hardcore horror movie fan or just in Halloween mood like myself. (sry for my bad English, i come from Germany)
I love found-footage movies and even some of the bad ones but this doesn't follow basic rules of the genre.
1. There's a soundtrack 2. Ambiguity can be a major plus, but there has to be something in the movie that gives you something to think about after. 3. Don't fill the 90 min movie with 65/70 mins of b-role. 4. Don't let the actors go over the top until the end. 5. If you get lost in the woods then fair enough but not when there's f#%king snow on the ground and your footprints would lead you all the way back home! 🙄
1. There's a soundtrack 2. Ambiguity can be a major plus, but there has to be something in the movie that gives you something to think about after. 3. Don't fill the 90 min movie with 65/70 mins of b-role. 4. Don't let the actors go over the top until the end. 5. If you get lost in the woods then fair enough but not when there's f#%king snow on the ground and your footprints would lead you all the way back home! 🙄
Absolutely unwatchable.
I tried to power through but theres very little else other than screaming women.
I tried to power through but theres very little else other than screaming women.
Evil Things villain had evil plans and the setup and premise was unsettling and not forced but took its time delivering a pinch of jolts and the fact that it doesn't ever show these twisted psychopath or psychopaths was unnerving. The movie's downfall is that nothing much happens to make it as a whole terrifying or deliver any true scares but just a bunch of confused and scared young adults running and driving helplessly until they meet their demise with no payoff or explanation which is a all too common theme with the found footage horror movies and this one just doesn't have any action at all or much of a concrete script or story but just an chilling idea that could of resolved in a more effective way, it didn't come off as authentic at all. The acting wasn't bad per say and they have believable chemistry among each other but they had nothing to work with at all but just walk and drive around and small talk and act scared and the fact that none of the characters had much of a backstory didn't help matters either. The filming of the raw atmosphere is what helped the film lose a lower rating from me but everything else just didn't gel together in an interesting way and most of the time it's like watching some strangers boring home videos. Overall it's like Five Across The Eyes meets Them in the most ho hum way. Skip it!
I was halfway through this movie before I realized I'd seen it before. Found footage is as found footage does. But - unlike 98% of FF movies - I thought the characters were believable enough, and I didn't hate them all. Yes, there was the usual bickering, screaming, frenetic running, and overall idiocy we've come to expect, but the creep factor was actually quite effective in some places. I still have no idea how you get lost in the woods when you have 5 sets of tracks in the snow you could follow back home or why you're still hanging onto the friggin' camera, but the bar is always low for found footage. Given the "competition" in the subgenre, this one isn't terrible.
Did you know
- TriviaDominic Perez made this film when he was 40 years old. He had wanted to make a movie for years but had never gotten around to it. In 2008, the recession happened and the investment bank he worked at cut his entire division of 2,000 people. Some of the people fired had worked there for 20 years, and Dominic saw them weeping as they collected their belongings and were escorted out by security. Perez was transferred to another division, but was told that he would also be let go in three months. With this realization, Perez decided that he would make the film.
- GoofsAt the beginning when they are passed by the van on Storm King Mountain Road, they are traveling south towards the city, instead of north towards the Catskills. You can tell this by the Hudson River being on the left side of the road, instead of the right.
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- Budget
- $3,175,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m(94 min)
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- 1.78 : 1 / (high definition)
- 16:9 widescreen
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