Savageland

2015
6| 1h20m| en
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When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.

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StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
Payno 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.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
FictionM I guess that's too many genres for one movie, but I think they're all accurate. The story revolves around an apparent spree-killing in a tiny, destitute Arizona border town near Nogales, Mx. The main suspect is also an amatuer photog and though not initially found, when a roll of film that he had taken during the entire night of the killings is developed, the story takes on a much darker tone. I have a soft spot in my heart for low budget horror films, but this one really is pretty high quality. Only one or two of the actors couldn't pull off the doc/reality part (the sherriff being the most annoying of them). There is a bit of a twist at the end, when one of the characters' book is published, and a "cover-up" is potentially revealed, but for the most part this fizzles at the end unfortunately. Over all, it's really well done for the resources they had, and the photo vs video aspect of the found "footage" was unique and really something I hadn't seen before. If you like "The Bay" but weren't really into the heavy-handedness and lack of "fright" you may just like this a lot.
ariefadityatubagus413 Here's the theory, the scariest yet beautiful place in this whole universe is our imagination., and this movie will help us to prove this theory. Found footage/documentary, since blair witch project and paranormal activity was dominated horror genre in recent year, but it was hard to mention a good one , either it was too cliche, repetitive, meaningless or as simply as didn't scary at all. With all my disappointed, then, i decided to give it a go with this movie. i was expecting a few teenager, using their camera, drone, google glass, will make a stupid trip into a haunted land, and they got eaten or killed one by one by a ghost, which is recorded on camera. But, this movie didn't deliver this. it was just series of interview about what happened in some little town which lost all of its resident in one night. there's no ghost. monsters, serial killer caught on cams, really... if there's no explanation, that it was a movie, maybe some of us would believe it was a real events. without no well-known actor, i felt that i watched some real interview. but, the best part was not about the concept. but how this movie played our imagination, what really happened in those town is reveals by the series of chronological interview, and that made me imagine the tragedy that killed 52 persons. there's no explanation about what's really happened, but it was just happens. i didn't think i ever watched similar movie. it has no jump scare moment, cheap CGI, disturbing score, or even a protagonist, but i didn't need it to enjoy a movie as a whole package. kudos!!
tjpierce-45675 A good faux documentary about a zombie attack that wipes out a small town in Arizona, after which a Mexican immigrant who photographs and survives the nightmare is scapegoated for the massacre by racist officials, who dismiss the photos as a hoax. The film's depiction of Arizona's racist rubes as, well, racist rubes, is spot on.
airsnob Yeah so I rented this after I read the reviews and I'm kinda bummed I did. It wasn't terrible but not worth the $5. Basically this is a documentary style movie about a town invaded by zombies (?) and it has some social commentary about the racism against immigrants, and the failure of our judicial system in cases that people want an easy scapegoat , and are too lazy to think outside the box . It's not a bad film. But it's also not a horror movie . There is no scary parts. There is nothing here except the subject matter and the loose assumption we come to about zombies, but even that is not entirely clear. So my suggesting is to rent another movie called "The Girl with all the Gifts" which is worth the price of a rental at least and wait to watch this one for free, or support independent film and watch it. It's interesting , it's just not a horror or a zombie film, which is what it's marketed as.. so that's the main problem. They should have marketed it properly and it would be more worth it, and not as disappointing. The acting is pretty good with the exception of the truck driver and a few of the other smaller parts .. with this style movie, the acting has to be top notch to make it truly believable . I thought they could have made this really really good. With more detailed photographs and more footage of the massacre and also not really ever having a conclusion made it worse than it had to be. I kept expecting the zombies or whatever they were ( we never find out for sure ) to attack another town. I was really waiting for that radio host to get eaten. I think that would have made this so much better. Have all the jerks that thought he killed them all get attacked and the documentary crew start filming that, the new attacks and then re-evaluating the verdict and all that. I guess this way is more realistic but who wants too much reality when it's boring and frustrating,right? I mean , this is why we watch movies. To escape the crap of the USA.