Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

MattyGibbs 5 friends go on a hike but encounter more than they bargained for as they meet up with a Bigfoot like creature. This had the potential to be better than it was. Unfortunately the characters are not particularly likable or memorable and so I found my mind wandering as the film progressed. Although it has some good periods they are interspersed with periods that I found downright boring and so the film didn't flow properly. For a low budget feature the special effects were pretty good and to be fair there are some really good tense scenes which stopped this being a total write-off. For me the final half hour was far more gripping than the first half so it's definitely a film that you need to persevere with to get any pay off. This isn't a bad film but it's not great either. If you're a fan of this genre and have a forgiving nature then you should find this sporadically enjoyable.

darthslug Exists is a good example for found footage done right. It isn't as annoying as i found many of those movies to be, with Evidence and Area 407 being some of the worst i've seen. The characters act understandable most of the time. They mostly try to survive and don't try to be the hero. The most important part for me though, is that there really aren't any obnoxious characters, shouting the whole movie just crap, like in my 2 examples. Another important point for me is the quality of the visuals and the effects. WETA did a good job with the special effects and everything about it looks really good. And the movie looks great. It's no "we do found footage, because we can't buy a good camera" movie. Sánchez used good cameras and he also clearly liked the work with a GoPro on his segment for V/H/S2.In short: It's a good looking found footage movie about Bigfoot, without super annoying characters. Definitely worth a watch, if you'd ask me.

Scarecrow-88 Eduardo Sánchez returns to found footage, a genre that made a name for himself (and also done him serious harm it seems), also tackling the Bigfoot subgenre as well. A group of friends decide to trip to a cabin (two brothers of the group have an uncle who owns it and has warned them *not* to come to this territory), hitting something while on the way. Come to find out, it was a sasquatch. Well, perhaps that sasquatch (or another?) is not very happy being hit by a vehicle in his neck of the woods and retaliates much to their puzzlement (they didn't realize they had done harm with said vehicle to the extent that would enrage the 'squatch so), leaving behind a body count as a result. Will any of the five survive? The group consists of Matt and brother Brian, their pal and his girlfriend, and Matt's girlfriend. After this excursion into the woods of Texas, their lives will never be the same.What makes this stand out is that the harm the humans cause is not known by them. They didn't intentionally provoke the sasquatch or wish to earn its wrath. It comes down to territory, invading it with your vehicle, and through the accident causing irreparable harm no one will come out of fully unscathed. Brian (the one without the girl; there's always a guy who represents the kind of "loser" of the bunch without a pretty girl by his side) is the character who can somehow communicate with it in a way that doesn't totally spurn the creature to destroy him. There's an exact purpose behind why the sasquatch is out to obliterate this group. They find a shot gun in the basement of the cabin, which comes in handy to wound the creature, but it more or less just makes the thing even madder than before. The recording camera is used extremely well in instances where the sasquatch can be seen in brief glimpses, charging towards characters, reaching at characters, tipping over an RV with characters hidden inside as it tumbled over a cliff, a character lifted off his feet and tossed right into a turned-over tree, a slight capture of one character with her hair pulled as she's lifted off her feet and suffering a neck snap in the process, and acknowledging the presence of the creature in how it sounds in its breathing, anger, movement, and rampage. The destruction of the cabin (what is heard and the aftermath) is epic. The use of the camera in this day and age can provide a number of inventive angles and visual tricks even civilians who aren't in the filmmaking business can pull off. Like the helmet cam, as an example. I think it is time to realize that our scrutiny on "found footage authenticity" is like beating fists at the air. We might as well put away questions like "why would he continue shooting after his brother goes missing, the cabin is destroyed, and his friends start to die?" Or "would any of us be free to see all of the events play out like this in their entirety?" Sometimes we just have to let go and allow the show to do what it intends to do: entertain or thrill. I think so often, the found footage is rightfully criticized if it is just an excuse for people trying to break into film using a cheap format at their start without delivering anything fulfilling for horror fans. Willow Creek is an example of a Bigfoot movie similar to Exists that doesn't quite give its audience much to really offer praise to. On the side of Exists, though, you get plenty of the 'squatch. It certainly is visible and ultimately isn't rendered just a bloodthirsty monster killing people for kicks and giggles. There's a reasoning any of us could understand once Brian is forced by the sasquatch to recognize what the flies buzzing about are attracted to. Thankfully, too, there's no tiresome CGI, and the suit isn't laughable. Great lengths were expended to see that this provides a creature and doesn't abhor it. The characters that endure horror when it goes off aren't total cretins, but fun-loving buddies just in the woods at the uncle's cabin to have a good time. So there's a dramatic angle that works because of the tragedy of it all: an accident leads to everyone being damaged...some worse than others.

bowmanblue 'Exists' is about a group of teens who get stalked in the forest by Bigfoot. Only, I just so happen to have seen a horror film before, therefore within the opening five minutes, I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen every step of the way.The group of friends is like every other group of friends you've seen in every other horror film where five friends go into the woods and come a cropper with rednecks/aliens/vampires (delete as applicable). It's kind of like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' but with Bigfoot. They bump into him in their car and – guess what – he doesn't take kindly to the hit and run and decides to hunt them down. But, before they're totally wiped out, they crack jokes, are oversexed and generally annoying (plus you have the black man here who feels the need to constantly point out that he's black –just in case the audience couldn't work that out on their own).Some aspects of the film are 'found footage' or at least they appear to be. Thankfully not all of it, so it doesn't confirm to all the latest 'found footage' clichés that come with the annoyingly overused genre. Naturally this film doesn't really have much of a budget. Bigfoot does himself towards the end and he's not that bad. However, before that you're left with the obligatory 'jump scares' and darkened searches through the woods.If you like horror films, watch one you already own. If you already own it then you already like it. That way you don't have to bother with this one. It's not that bad, it's just not original enough to warrant a viewing.