HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

GL84 Trying to get past a breakup, a pair of friends head to Barcelona to find women, and when they take a pair back to their house they end realizing that they've become involved with a dangerous demonic force intent on killing them forcing the pair to try to get out of the house alive.This was a decidedly decent if wholly underwhelming found-footage effort. One of the more enjoyable elements here is the great work it does at presenting a rather intriguing and potentially suspenseful situation. The idea of taking the rather familiar route of the girl being some kind of demonic spirit creature at the end of the night means that the clichéd set-up means that there's plenty of fun to come from the creature going out to kill them as that kind of action is what sells this. There's plenty of brutal, gory bloodletting that emerges from this kind of action as all kinds of encounters and confrontations with the demon spirit makes for an enjoyable time. Along with the great amount of fun that comes from how it works out the final twist at the end, which comes off with a slight bit of originality and does end this on a somewhat enjoyable note. While these here make this one watchable enough, there's a lot of problems with this one. The biggest problem here is the fact that there's just not a whole lot of interest in the first half here as we're continually around this annoying and really irritating group of friends who are really not worth spending time with. The fact that they continually rag on each, push each other into situations they don't want to be involved in and are just basically not that interesting with all the dude-bro comments doesn't make for an endearing or enjoyable start to this one. Not only that, the film's entry into the particular found-footage genre means that very little of the film makes any sense at all, from how the film's battery life is able to stay lit the entire seventy some-odd minute running time while having the bright flashlight feature enabled the entire time to why the pair are continually wanting to record the matters of what might be their last moments alive instead of trying to save themselves or wondering why the film is able to be recorded in the first place with the indestructible nature of the camera being able to stay on whenever it crashes to the ground or gets thrown into the wall with the videographer. None of these efforts are all that intriguing and really just make this one part of the genre which fall into all the usual problems here and that doesn't make for a fun time here. Likewise, the other big problem here is the fact that there are so many moments of questionable decision-making that continually puts them in danger rather than being realistically played out to try to get them out of the house, and for the most part it's what really holds this one back.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and excessive drinking.

davejderisi I dig up many horror movies on the web I haven't seen yet. This one seemed to surface on its own. "Hooked Up" follows two young guy friends who venture to Barcelona looking for some plain old fun. They meet two girls and one of them knows of an abandoned house they could go party at. Already being drunk, they all decide it would be a good idea to go check it out. One of the guy friends is filming everything on his iphone. The director probably really did shoot most of this film with some type of iphone camera, but its not noticeable at all. The camera work, for found footage, is top notch. It seems the director really had an in depth idea for this movie. Once they characters enter the haunted dwelling, the movie really takes off and what follows is a ton of disturbing, loud, and bloody mayhem. I really liked the character development in this movie. The acting seemed really raw and realistic. The two leads had very different personalities but were still close friends, which is often the case in real life. I really liked how we saw Peter, one of the leads, kind of slowly go mad. From the opening scene we saw how Peter had a little bit of a temper. Once trapped, his anger escalated really fast, resulting in him acting very impulsive, violent, and selfish. Towards his best friend.This movie is also very scary. It takes an approach somewhat similar to REC, or possibly even Grave Encounters. A group of people trapped in a big building. Although they are similar, they are also very different. This film has you guessing if what is going on is supernatural or not. Then just when you think you have it all figured out, another layer of complexity is added. As soon as the friends enter the house, the movie moves at a fast horror packed pace. This is also a very imaginative horror movie, because the director plays with many different horror tropes, including one of my favorites: (**SPOILER ALERT**.............) a hungry, skinnily deformed, very scary person chained in the dark in a corner on one of the floors of the house. This was very unexpected for me, and it scared the HELL out of me. Peter is the one who finds this person, and even after all the mayhem that had already been going on, Peter decides to trust this person to lead him through out the very dark and scary house to safety. This is an extremely intense and scary scene for the viewer, as the questionable person keeps on turning around to the camera to make sure we are still following her. Her voice is very scary and the way she fast walks is very unsettling. Through this journey amongst floors not only does Peter lose his sense of direction, but so does the viewer, leaving us in a state of complete vulnerability and filled with dread. The fact that this is a found footage movie makes it so much more effective. The way Peter blew up mentally was entertaining, raw, and believable. The female characters were pretty. The horror was intense. Overall I rate this movie 10 out of 10 because it is rare that I find a found footage film that is truly unforgettable, and this is one of them. Follow my other reviews!

FountainPen I detest movies which start with a 3-minute segment showing a guy (or gal) vomiting into a toilet bowl. I detest movies which feature two thoroughly worthless and unlikable nerds, one of whom looks like a reject from the Baja Marimba Band AND Zapata's outlaw band, while the other looks just like an ordinary nerd. I detest movies which utilise the shaky-cam, hand-held "technique". No, it is NOT edgy, avant-garde; the word is that this film was shot using an i-Phone. I detest movies which are shot mainly in near-dark. I detest movies in which the fake blood LOOKS like poor-quality fake blood or ketchup. I detest this movie. Truly, I cannot think of anything positive to say about it; it is an hour and a half of boring, infuriating nonsense, with "actors" who need to go back to their day jobs. There is no suspense, no creativity, no indication of any cinematic talent. Truly, the movie stinks. Out loud.

ASouthernHorrorFan The story is a tightly woven blend of American horrors abroad and urban legend that mixes xenophobia with a baser celebration of the macabre surrounding ghost girl hook-ups that has evolved from the modern urban legend field. Although I wrestled with the film's framing around the found footage style to tell this pretty cool story, I succumbed to the fact that it is that basic irritant I have with pretty much all found footage films-"would, given the circumstances of such a horrific series of events, would a person realistically continue to hold on to the camera to continue videoing the events?" Especially when the story unfolds chronologically without breaks. Aside from the "found footage" issue I have, generally, I enjoyed many aspects of "Hooked Up". I found the acting to be believable, the premise plausible, and the emotion genuine. There are a few moments when the dialog isn't delivered quite as convincingly as I am sure the director and story hopes for, but for the most part the drama, suspense and energy is alive in "Hooked Up". There isn't much lull in the excitement or high drama here, every scene just amplifies the next as far as character drama. It is a cool, thrilling story and even in found footage it unfolds chillingly. The special effects in "Hooked Up" are pretty tight as well, the blood and gore looked realistic enough. The death and violence are visceral and quality. The cinematography ran the expectant gambit of found footage gimmicks, First Person POV, shaky, shadowy scenes, quirky angles and confusing scenes that have obscured views with sudden thrills. Some times it works and sometimes it doesn't. Luckily enough of the scenes work to create the intended nightmare sequences with enough energy to complete the story arc. Overall, "Hooked Up" just passes enough to be a cool Eurotrip horror, but not enough to be a must see. Plus the ending was really hokey and somewhat cliché. For found footage/paranormal fans this is an okay flick, for a wider horror fan base, "Hooked Up" doesn't really offer much that hasn't been seen and done before.