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Montauk Chronicles

  • 2015
  • 2h
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4.2/10
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Montauk Chronicles (2015)
Documentary

A study of the dark legends that surround the Camp Hero Air Force Base in Montauk, Long Island.A study of the dark legends that surround the Camp Hero Air Force Base in Montauk, Long Island.A study of the dark legends that surround the Camp Hero Air Force Base in Montauk, Long Island.

  • Director
    • Christopher P. Garetano
  • Writer
    • Christopher P. Garetano
  • Stars
    • Al Bielek
    • Timothy Clair
    • Paul Ehlers
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.2/10
    350
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    • Director
      • Christopher P. Garetano
    • Writer
      • Christopher P. Garetano
    • Stars
      • Al Bielek
      • Timothy Clair
      • Paul Ehlers
    • 31User reviews
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    Al Bielek
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    Timothy Clair
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    Paul Ehlers
    Paul Ehlers
    • Jack Pruitt
    Paul Fagan
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    Chris Margaritis
    • Preston Nichols
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    Erik Swanson
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    Stewart Swerdlow
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    TheCynicReels

    Interesting interviews bad editing

    Destroyed by cheesy sound and visuals . Cheaply put together .
    9jill-hanson-261-562768

    Visually Stunning, Informative Film.

    Christopher Garetano's Montauk Chronicles is one of the best documentaries I've seen, if not number one on that list.

    As you would expect of any first-rate documentary, Montauk Chronicles more than delivers in the content department - with candid interviews of the men who were themselves subjected to this horrific project - but add to its unrivaled substance, Christopher Garetano's artistic vision and extraordinary attention to detail, and you have a true example of cinematic masterpiece.

    Montauk Chronicles is undeniably visually stunning, almost immersive - more rich, polished and alluring than even the best that Hollywood has to offer with all of the many millions of dollars spent on mainstream movies who's only hope is to entertain. Christopher Garetano has distinguished himself as a master documentarian, having created with Montauk Chronicles not just a film, but an experience - and that in this day and age is a level of care and expertise not often exacted, even by those most honored, the appointed crowned royals of the filmmaking elite.

    For Truth Seekers on any path, of any level of curiosity or experience, this is a MUST SEE FILM. MUST SEE. Watch it, then tell your friends to watch it.

    Jill Hanson Founder, Host The Q.Psience Project on KGRA-db
    7rprince-832-6294

    Nothing impressive, but still entertaining

    -Montauk Chronicles (2015) movie review: -Montauk Chronicles is a documentary following a series of 'alien' events at the town of Montauk. Basically it is a UFO documentary.

    -It was 'aight. I don't care much for documentaries like this, but I was at least entertained.

    -The story was true, but definitely told in a biased way.

    -The pace was surprisingly good.

    -The people that were in it were interesting, but not that interesting. They were real, but also very biased. You can tell they had already formulated their opinion, so when the film opened with an opening stating it would tell an unbiased story, and then only interviewed the people that believe it, it kinda lied.

    -The music was not great and sounded really synthetic, but that also fit an alien film.

    -Basically if you can be entertained by documentaries where you don't buy into anything anybody ways, but are somewhat interested by it, Montauk Chronicles would be worth checking out on Netflix or anywhere else you can see it without paying for it.
    2banglainey

    Just Not Good.

    I was hoping for a lot more from this, but the directing style is just not good at all. It starts off like an actual documentary, but then goes into a cinematic narrative, but then also switches back to interviews done documentary-style, and then narrative, and then cinematic theatrical recreations and special effects and sometimes there is nothing going on but still images of weird creepy stuff with loud noises.

    This style was just not pleasant to watch. The director needs to pick a theme and stick to it, it's almost like he made 3 different movies in one and the result is just not good. I enjoy bad horror movies, I enjoy crappy documentaries, and I enjoy really nouveau-art type horror where its mainly creepy images and strange music and very little else, but all 3 combined just did not work for me. I kept getting into the documentary part, and then it would switch and I'd be like, darn I was enjoying that. Then they would have a really artistic visual/musical scene, and I'd get into it, and then it would suddenly end and the boring narrative would return.

    The movie itself is total garbage, there's little to back it up, and the 3 eyewitness interviewees seem to provide no evidence of any sort. I guess the main old guy they are interviewing is actually an author who wrote stories about this Montauk Project claiming truth, but at the time his books were heralded as fiction, and of course there is no one else coming forward saying any of it is true except for another old guy who seemed senile, and some young guy who claimed to be a psychic genius of some sort who survived all these crazy experiments involving aliens, time travel, psychic warfare, and conjuring monsters into existence with their brains (but if that's the case why isn't he solving the mysteries of the universe and instead just being a regular, depressed looking guy. No really though, I think the other 2 interviewees were probably just fans of the book series and probably senile themselves).

    At one point, one of the old, senile men claims there were projects like this going on in every major city in the USA, and that probably a hundred thousand people died from this experiment. That's pretty far-fetched, since only 3 guys seem to remember it. And I'm still not clear what exactly they were experimenting on- seems like they said every sort of conspiracy was going on.

    I mean, let's just pick one conspiracy and stick to it, guys, cmon now, we can't do ALL the conspiracies in one film/documentary/slideshow of creepy images with loud and uncomfortable noises intertwined with live interviews and abstract recreations intertwined, it would have been better to just pick one focal point of the film and one directing style.

    The one thing that really, really, REALLY bothered me about this movie was the background music during the talking parts. I liked it, BUT, it was way too loud, which made me feel like it was a really low-quality budget movie that nobody actually checked the sound levels on. I mean, it was so bad that at times, during the interviews, I couldn't make out what these mush mouthed old men were saying because the background music would reach a crescendo and drown them out!

    Gave a 2 rather than a 1 because it did have a little bit of onteresting parts in it, and it did have some good visuals and was a little creepy.
    8ham-ma242

    Shocking and a must see

    The information is great, but the visuals were really satanic. I innerstand the subject, but the whole atmosphere gave it a really shocking/low vibration. So be careful.

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      • January 17, 2015 (United States)
    • Country of origin
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      • Miami, Florida, USA
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