Dark Amazon

A group of scientific researchers head into the Amazon rain forest in the search for a cure for cancer & film their every move (unoriginal!). This is more Blair Witch than Cannibal Holocaust, so those wanting gore move along. To be fair good use is made of the real Amazonian locations. Sadly that's the only good thing. Acting is mediocre. The twist at the end is reasonable, must admit I didn't see it coming. However, what lets this film down so bad is that it is incredibly boring! Nothing horrific happens until about an hour in & when it does it really is tame. It may only be approx. 80 minutes long but it really does drag. Just like zombies & slashers the market is over saturated with poor found footage movies - and this is one.

Astonishingly dull Blair Witchery taking place in the Amazon jungle. Characters with limited personalities are frightened by unsubtle animal noises. If the barks and warbles sounded as if it was deep in the jungle, or far in the distance, that would be more effective, but the snarls sound as if they have been recorded close to the camera in post-production. This is impossible, however, because we are told that the footage we are watching is actually real, even down to the ambient incidental score present during the rare moments of tension.

"I need to go pee."

"Why are you filming this?" "It's in my blood."

"OMG, OMG,OMG, OMG, OMG."

I couldn't get worked up about this at all. My score is 3 out of 10, with an extra point for a fairly satisfying revelation toward the end.

Yeah, this film certainly doesn't try and reinvent the wheel, but it's far from the worst found footage movie out there. The cinematography is decent and looks like a movie instead of "shot-on-$hi!eo" like so many other films looking to make a quick buck. There's gore but nothing approaching most Amazonian-Cannibal films like Green Inferno.

Yeah, there's certainly a lack of creativity for the monster since they use the sound the predator makes to indicate he's there and what we see of the design is at the very least better than SyFy channel movie CGI. The narrative kind of falls apart at the end with a stupid reveal that could've been left out without impacting the movie's plot.

My biggest complaint is the almost "conspiracy "-esque message thrown in the end about cancer and big pharna which I found to be in poor taste.

Bottom line, it's worth a watch if you're bored but you likely won't watch it again.

Fake, fake, fake. What really annoys me about this movie is that they try to pass off this movie, as being real, with-out actors. Say the footage is real footage of the victims. It is so obvious that this is all actors . There is no way that people so squimish would agree to go to the amazon forest with huge spiders, dangerous wild-life, crocs, snakes. One minor animal noise and they all freak out. One small spider they all freak out. Not to mention their hair looks clean and blow dried.and they wear eye makeup and lipstickThey caught a frog and acted as if it was this major achievement. They have no food or water with them. They wear flip flops and bare feet in the jungle. Seriously? Oh and the one guy wears a designer watch and pink satin eye cover.