Absence

The movie was okay and had a lot of potential. The brother is SUPER annoying and sometimes makes it hard to watch. I almost stopped watching because of him. The lead actress is great. I think the movie would have been better without the brother. There are times you wonder WHY IS HE STILL FILMING and a couple things are left unanswered... Other than that I think it's worth a watch if you can sit through the annoying brother.

I hated Blair Witch. I totally hate found footage movies. It' s the absolute bottom of the barrel for movie plots. Just plain lazy.

If anybody EVER sat there, filming everything when catastrophic events were happening, I'd take their camera away from them, put it in a pillow case and beat them to death with it.

Such an unreal plot, inane, weak, and lame.

Here's EVERY found footage movie...(Screaming)...(Shaking camera)...running...grunts....(more shaking camera).

Stop it already.

Don't be lazy. Put some effort into the movie for Pete's sake.

Here's an idea. If you can't think of a good story, can't find people who can act, and have only $5 for a budget DON'T MAKE A MOVIE.

I read the reviews and waited for the film to pick up but all it did was p**s me off. The slow pace did allow you to connect to the characters but as I waited for the tension to build the film ended. don't waste your time with this rubbish movie, you'll have more fun staring at the wall. I recently watch the conjuring and truly enjoyed that. I saw this recommended and hoped for similar thrills but feel I wasted over an hour of my life. I hate to write negative reviews but I hope to save you the same fate as me and would suggest to avoid at all cost. There were a couple of points when I thought it might pick up so I hung in there until the end and even after the credits just in case, but nope.... it was p**s poor to the end

Within the first 5 minutes you'll know if you'll like this film or not. It's obviously a found footage film, which doesn't automatically make it terrible, but we can rule out anything over 8 stars right off.

So I tried to keep watching and it seems like the camera is constantly at arms length away from the actors, and this gets annoying really quick. It reminds me of people taking selfies and such. The acting soon gets out of control, over the top and I had to skip ahead. After a few skips I'm half way through the movie and my field of view is consistently too close. This is too much.

I came here to see if anyone else noticed this or if it was just me, but I found out the spoilers and glad I didn't finish it. Zero ending? Ahhh just terrible through and through then.

Absence is pretty much absent of any real excitement.

Absence begins with Evan, a young film student who is documenting his sister Liz and her husband, whose 7-month old baby fetus mysteriously vanished from his sisters body.

The trio escape the questioning from police and media attention and head off to a cabin in the woods. They, nor the doctors have any explanation for what happened to Liz.

The documentary shooting is real but sloppy for a films sake. No-one holds the camera twenty-four-seven and you do put it down when needing to do something (as is what happens in the film). It can be annoying for the viewer's pleasure to watch a wall while hearing a conversation in the background.

The central mystery of the disappearance takes a while to get into and the scares are far and few between but it does have the odd scene and shot that was worth the wait.

The ending was expected once it happened but I enjoyed it all the same.

If you're not a fan of found footage, you may not like this movie but if you are you'll want to give it a go.