Truly Dreadful Film

A lot of fun.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I usually don't do reviews. I read reviews and I give scores - but rarely make a review. But for this film, I just had to. The first 57 minutes, absolutely nothing happens.. You see them sit in a car talking while they drive. Then a car drives past them and slows down aaaaand drives past them again. They eat, and they move on - sooo back to driving and talking again. They come to the house - they talk some more and now drink a little - nothing else. And BAM 57 minutes has passed.. And what has happened? Nothing.. Then the narrative changes to the "bad guy's" camera as he films them doing everything we just saw earlier.. Just through a different camera... Some of the cast disappeared. How? No idea. Who took them? No idea. What happened to them? No idea. Really disappointing.. And why the f... does the bad guy make some weird clicking noise? Sounds unnatural, like he is supernatural/alien/mutant of some sort. But we don't know - 'cause we get told nothing.. My advise -> don't waste your time on this. Move along and find another movie instead.

To be fair, I generally like low budget found footage films. I always expect bad acting and dialog and most of the time have fun with it. Not in this film's case. The biggest fault in this film, to me, was the complete and utter lack of character development, especially in a film where ninety percent of airtime is character interaction. We never learn how these characters know each other and many questions arise about who these people are and why they react to things the way they do. For instance, Miriam being shocked to tears over her friends giving her a birthday cake on well her BIRTHDAY. A bad childhood? Neglectful parents? Who knows? Cassie's bizarre reaction to Mark zooming in on Tanya's breasts with the camera was another. At first, she blows it off, yet later has a meltdown over it. Do Mark and Tanya have a past? Has he cheated on Cassie? Who knows? While confronting Tanya, while lost, Mark says something about her "insecurities." Again, a past? We learn the most about Leo, who is largely off camera, as he talks about his plans for the future. We learn Cassie hates her job. We learn zero about Miriam and Mark, though. Then there's the extremely attractive and equally annoying Tanya. For the first third of the film she whines incessantly about being ill, yet it's never said why. Hangover? Bad Sushi? Read the script? Also for someone who was violently ill, how is it she can down a Smirnoff Ice once at the destination? Why would someone go on a nature trip if they hate the outdoors? How can any of these folks stand her? I have to say that had the time spent on having the characters just babble mindlessly been spent on getting to know them, this film would have been far better.

The acting is so crap. Who in the world did they cast for this? Can't seem to work out who in the cast is more annoying or who needs a slap more. Less is more people. As for the movie itself the plot is simple and undeveloped. The scares come but they are too few in far between, and there seems to be no rationale for why this stuff is happening. Apparently it took only 3 months to write and boy does it show. It wants to be Blair Witch (hence the plot similarities) so desperately but succeeds in only coming across as being desperate. Check out the website for this crappy film and you'll see how brainless the film makers are. Dominic Perez if your reading this don't bother making any more films. Your friend was right, making a inaugural film is reserved for people in their early 20s. You shouldn't have even bothered if you're going to make films as inept as this.

To give you an idea of how unbelievably brain-rotting this film his, here is an example:There are ten minutes of just footage of the furniture. The effing furniture.Oh, it gets better.(Here come the spoilers)There are ten minutes of cars being filmed with little dialogue and nothing much else. During this film, nothing happens at all, then there is a few minutes of banging and screaming, then the credits roll. Hell, the director even makes them feel pretentious. There is no story, no character study, no explanation, no meaning or purpose, no violence, no nudity, no sex, no blood, no acting- skill. You don't find out what happened to half the cast, they just disappear.You get the impression that the murderer is a stalker but you don't get anything more than that at all. He has no ties to the characters, no explanation as to who it could be and if there is some crazy hidden subtext, I sure as hell didn't get it.Films like this shouldn't just get avoided. They should be sent back to the maker with a effing complaint. Can't believe someone got the opportunity to make a film and made this instead.I can honestly say that this is the first film I have seen that manages to have no closure, no twists, no ending and yet also manages to allow no interpretation at all.