Well Deserved Praise

Perfect cast and a good story

good back-story, and good acting

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Was not entirely excited by the idea of the story (though with the right execution it may have worked in a moderate guilty pleasure way), with it being nothing new and with the fear nothing new would be brought to it. Coming across 'Desaparecidos' by chance and having an appreciation for horror, despite not expecting an awful lot the decision was made to view it with an open and fair mind. 'Desaparecidos', a Brazilian found footage (have never been a fan because it has nearly always been done badly or worse) horror, turned out to be one of those films that didn't really excite on paper but seen also as part of a low-budget horror quest on top of having appreciation for the genre, and didn't fare much better, in fact it fared even worse, in how it was executed. Do not take any pleasure criticising the film, but it didn't work for me at all in almost every aspect.Some lighting was not bad and had some atmosphere, but was generally too dark and drab. Especially when it was very difficult to appreciate, let alone enjoy, it properly when the editing especially was so confused and jumpy and the camera work inducing excessive nausea.Audio is obvious and intrusive and it honestly feels like a woefully inexperienced under-budgeted film in terms of how it is directed.One of the worst aspects was the acting, which is unspeakably dreadful all round. Have not seen acting this unnatural-looking in a while. The script is horrendously stilted and the characters are not interesting or rootable at all.Furthermore, there is no tension or suspense whatsoever. The film is far too dully paced and uneventful to be thrilling and is just too silly, jumpy and predictable to evoke any sense of terror. Some of it is not very easy to follow either.Summing up, nothing good here and everything is awful. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I'm so sorry, but I have to say it, I'm so glad it was over. This was by far one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Desaparecidos is a Brazilian found footage movie with about 70 minutes. Even though it only has 70 minutes it looked like 5 hours to me. I must say though that my opinion should not be taken as serious as it should, mostly because my biggest problem with the whole movie was the language. Since Portuguese and Brazilian are both referred as "portuguese" I thought I could watch this without subtitles, and actually I could, but I wasn't able to understand a huge part of the dialogue and that ruined it for me from the beginning. Brazilian is a really messy and loud language, in my opinion, and in situations of fear and panic it gets even worse, making it impossible to understand anything from my point of view. But that probably isn't a problem to foreign people because they will always watch it with subtitles. That said, I also had a lot of problems with the rest of the movie mostly because there's nothing going on all the time. Some guys get kind of lost in the woods while looking for a friend, and apart from that they just spend the whole movie running and screaming hysterically, and that's it. There's no people disappearing throughout the movie, just the one who was already missing, and they spent at least 50 minutes just running around, screaming. The fact that it is a found footage movie makes it even more annoying because all we see are leaves and trees and woods, nothing much. The end was rushed just to make them all disappear like the title says, so they ALL go missing in the last 5 minutes and not throughout the movie as it was expected as a horror movie. To end this, I must point to the fact that the police at the end is grabbing evidence with their bare hands, no gloves no nothing, and they don't seem to really know what they're doing.

This is an interesting film, it's the first of its kind in Brazil (horror/mockumentary) and it delivers what it sets out to do, which is take the audience on a roller-coaster ride. Its not the scariest movie (it has a audience rating age 14), but it has its doses of panic and pure agony. The film reflects and depicts with accuracy the young hip Brazilian culture and it makes fun of it, as do many horror films. Its not a Hitchcock movie, and it could not be as it was shot "Blair Witch" style for under $25 thousand and went from concept to screen in less then a year. But it should not be dismissed either as it has earned its place in the Brazilian film history books. The director and crew should be hailed for taking the risk and making a film without the help of government money (99% of films in Brazil are shot with soft - government money) and for exploring the horror genre, something forgotten by young Brazilian filmmakers. Audience reactions have been mixed as the film was part of a large transmidia project (also a first for a Brazilian film) that ran for a year on the web prior to the release of the movie. Due to this fact older and more cinematic audiences did not understand the full implication of the film. Younger audiences have approved the film and haild it as the film that will kick start horror films in Brazil. Released theatrically on 12/09/2011.

If you are new to Brazilian cinema, please do not take this film to be a good example of the country's production.The writer/director set out to do a "Blair Witch Project"-like movie, incorporating fake social networks profiles and fake news (somewhat alike to what was done for "The Fourth Kind").The end result was dismal.The movie fails to create a credible atmosphere from its beginning throughout the end. The actresses are reduced to screaming their way through the film - one of them can be seen frequently giggling. Acting is bad. Very bad. Monotone intonations abound. When overacting is not the case, what you get is expressionless faces. Sound and visual effects are risible at their best, sad elsewhere. The creature is crude. The argument is all but nonexistent. Dialogues actually increase disbelief. There's an excessive and unrealistic use of profanity by the characters, especially before the "plot thickens".Bottom line: if you sit and watch paint dry, you can at least hope to accomplish something in the way of meditation - no such relief can be found in this movie, even though it is as exciting.