Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

gideonstube I love me a good spook movie. Even if it's not a very well made one. But this one goes from somewhat creepy. To really bad and annoying the last 30 mins. I found myself looking at the clock shaking my head wondering how much longer can this go on? How much weirder can it get? Who are those crazy zombie dudes running around in gas masks? I was just waiting for the Cloverfield monster jump up and grab them at the last minute on the way out, LOL I guess it just goes to prove you can make a movie about anything. If you can manage to dumbfound your audience enough to sit to the very end .

NeilJThomas Just so you know, there are minor spoilers here.Unlike some of the claims here, it's not actually a "found footage" movie. It's filmed in that style though, portraying events which are purported to be real, from a 1st person perspective. however if you watch closely the last 10 minutes or so you'll realize it can't be found footage. I'm trying to avoid spoilers here, unless it's absolutely necessary.there's some good ideas here, some of which i'm sure we've all had while watching yet another horror movie made in the wake of "the Blair witch project", you know the sort, when you think "if they had shown that (censored) there, the tension would really, really go through the roof". well, they finally did, you'll realize what I mean when you see the bit about the trees.That's the good part, the bad part is that it's yet another of those movies that can only scare that class of viewers that cover their eyes at the first sight of anyone that's simply running in the dark screaming. i've already watched this movie 12 times in the last month, all of them with different titles, all of them with the same plot:"remove protagonists from the perceived safety of urban life, and throw them into an isolated, unknown location. have them hear and even glimpse a threat, but never clearly enough for them to understand exactly what it is that's after them. never show the threat clearly enough that the viewer can identify it either. reveal that the threat is strong and fast enough that it can run them down and tear them apart if it should choose to do so, then reveal that they're obviously facing the son of a scooby-doo cartoon monster: whenever they're out in the open and vulnerable, the monster stands there and watches them, listens to them ... does things to the trees around them ... but otherwise leaves them alone. when they see proof that the monster is lethal, get them to run like headless chickens from a to b to c, in the dead of night (hardly ever a good idea) yet the scoober never quite manages to catch them, only showing a desire to do so if and when they reach shelter."unfortunately they've made so many of these movies that it's become virtually impossible to come out with an innovative conclusion to these events, or even an innovative plot twist. they've been repetitive up to the very end, they might as well have a rational, if repetitive, denouement, but somehow that doesn't satisfy the filmmakers. fortunately for them, the found footage genre gives them an easy out, and this is "close to found footage" enough that it can be bent into the same kind of ending: EXPLAIN NOTHING. NO. THING. to be fair, in this particular movie, at the very end an unseen man's voice actually puts a name onto some of the things you see, SOME, and it's more of a hint to get your brain working in the intended direction. if they had shown some restraint about what to put on screen at that point, it would even have worked, but they chose to put a large number of people behaving inexplicably at the end (the message apparently being that they're either mental patients, or at least they've gone mad) and that doesn't work well with the (SORTA) explanation provided by the unseen man...it's just another mess of a movie. there are a few decent special effects at the end (up to that point there had been only three moments with special effects) but they're off the screen before your brain catches up with what you've seen, and personally I wish they'd invest more money into coming up with a coherent and believable script throughout, rather than for special effects in the last 10 minutes of the movie.like all the rest, it's a lightweight horror movie that only easily scared people will appreciate, you know the kind: they will invariably tell you that they've "watched it from behind the sofa".

cummyduck Do not make the mistake I did and judge this film by it's cover! After glancing at the cover a couple of times I chose not to watch the film. Anyway, one night I had nothing new left to watch so dug this out and put it on. I was blown away! The story starts with the couples getting ready to go on a camping trip in their big RV. From the get go the acting is top class and convincing, which is very important for a 'Found Footage' style movie. I got a genuine shock when I saw one of the creatures for the 1st time, which is rare in these days of cheesy CGI. The film gradually builds suspense and fear, and then once it gets rolling it refuses to stop and become a roller-coaster of a ride as you are pulled into the horror and confusion that the characters are experiencing. Just as you think you have an inkling of what is going, the movie throws a curve ball!For almost the entire second half of the film I was on the edge of my seat wondering what on earth was going to happen. At the films end a few questions have been answered but many more unanswered questions are raised. The movie finishes whilst the action is still going and made me immediately look on line for more information. I really hope they make a sequel as I want to know what has happened. My best guess is that a military experiment went wrong (don't they all), and some sort of chemical was released that mutated humans into monsters. Either that, or, because the base appears to be underground then maybe they were digging for something and found it. Really hope they make a sequel!

pauljwilliams9 EVIDENCE is a 2012 found-footage horror film directed by Howie Askins from a screenplay written by Ryan McCoy, who also stars as our amateur camera operator.The set-up is a familiar horror-film trope: a quartet of attractive yuppies trek out to the wilds and inexplicably disappear, leaving behind their video footage to later be found for our enjoyment, yet still oftentimes fails to leave any resolution. The group we travel out with this time is Ryan (Ryan McCoy), who's filming Brett (Brett Rosenberg), and their two girlfriends, Abi (Abigail Richie), the shapely blonde, and Ashley (Ashley Bracken), the shorter brunette, covering all the bases for the younger-male-heterosexual audience. (And I don't know why found-footage film-makers continue to use the actors' real names as their characters' names. For authenticity's sake, I know, but in this day and age, give the audience more credit, please.Whereas THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, REC, CLOVERFIELD, et al. provide valid reasons for our cameraman/woman to be recording every single thing that happens, EVIDENCE's script is a little lazier with the reason we're seeing this footage: This is Brett's first time camping and his buddy Ryan wants to document the experience. It should be noted Brett is probably a thirty year-old man.We quickly travel out, via an R.V., to the beautiful mountain ranges of California. EVIDENCE learns from, in my humble opinion, the sins of a majority of found-footage movies: making us wait an eternity for something, anything, to happen. It's only fifteen minutes in that we're provided with our first scare, a daytime occurrence, too, that is very effective.Prior to this first scare, and continuing on after, are the requisite arguments and dissension among our group. Some of the first act is uncomfortably close to BLAIR WITCH, but after viewing the film, I wondered if this was by design and they were just toying with the audience. Questionable acting skills and fair writing make these arguments feel very manufactured and unnatural. Some casting choices pulled me out of the film, too, which is always unfortunate, but especially when you're passing off the movie as "real". The group is visited in the night by a creepy vagrant-type. With his bright white teeth and chiseled features, this jumped out to me as clearly a handsome actor bummed up for the scene.Once we get rolling, though, the movie is very enjoyable. There are plenty of jump scares and satisfyingly vague creatures that hunt them. One sequence reveals a creature on the R.V.'s reverse camera charging at the vehicle and it's very creepy and well done.Ultimately, the movie comes down to the third act, and it delivers, just not in the way I thought, or hoped. I was enjoying the glimpses and jump-scares in moderation. The finale offers creatures, government/military goons, blood, I don't know what the f*#k that was, zombies, gore; it's all there and makes you yell out, "Holy s#*t!". Yeah, there's a complete shift in tone, pacing, and even genre to a point, but Askin's direction and editing make for a non-stop, first-person shooter-esque experience. His skills are really on display here. We all know going in that we're not about to witness the next "Wuthering Heights" or "Casablanca". It's a fun seventy-eight minute escape.In a 2012 interview with the U.K.'s Daily Record, writer/actor Ryan McCoy states, "In January 2010, Paranormal Activity had just come out on DVD. I bought it, watched it and thought they had done so much in the set-up but somehow lost it at the end…I started thinking I could do a found-footage movie. However, my goal was to make it bigger with a last act no-one had seen before." Mission accomplished, my friend.CrashPalaceProductions.com