Pure Trash


Stupid characters that are completely unlikable and cliched make this straight to the trashcan movie unbearable. Amazing that there's actually people out there with taste in film so bad they thought it was better than Willow Creek.

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How are they unlikable? They seemed like an average group of youths in their late teens/early 20s.

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the black jock speaking ghetto. the dumb hot girl, the nerd stoner, that movie right? the movie that sounded like it was written by a college film student who ends up flunking out after the first year? this was another of those completely forgettable straight to the trash can movies.

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I didn't like the cliched shaky cam, but there was thankfully some conventional shooting. And the third act delivered the goods, albeit with aspects reminiscent of "Sasquatch" (2002), aka "The Untold," and "Sasquatch Mountain" (2006).

The cast just seemed like an average group of late teens/early 20s. Neither girl struck me as dumb. They were merely out to have a good time in the Texas woods with friends. The camera guy smoking some weed didn't necessarily make him a stoner and, besides, he chose not to light the joint in the final act when Dora gave him a look. In other words, he decided he didn't need it to get through the traumatic situation.

Also, a black person throwing out a little Black Vernacular isn't unheard of.

I'd watch this above the director's more famous movie "The Blair Witch Project" with its pointless cussing every third word, runny snot nose and lame ending with no witch.

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The blair witch project is a modern day horror masterpiece. This was dreck.

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I respect your opinion, but in my view they're too similar production-wise, stylistically and thematically to call one a masterpiece and the other dreck. "Exists" is cut from the same cloth as "The Blair Witch Project," but eliminates the aforementioned weaknesses and is the better for it. At the same time I'm not saying it's great; just that it's a an effective and realistic Bigfoot Indie with a shaky cam.

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Exists, is a cheap b movie made by people with zero talent. The two films are nothing alike.

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"The Blair Witch Project" was a cheap c movie, albeit iconic, and co-created by the creator of "Exists," and obviously so in light of:

- Same genre (found footage horror)
- Same setting (the woods)
- Same style/tone
- Same type of protagonists (late teens/early 20s)
- Same kind of peril (monster in the forest) (and, yes, a witch with supernatural abilities is a "monster")

The difference is that "Exists" doesn't go overkill with the pointless cussing and delivers the goods in the final act by plainly revealing the antagonist and offering a sense of closure while "Witch" did neither. "Exists" also includes some conventional shooting, so it's not all shaky cam held by one of the protagonists.

But you clearly loathe "Exists" and praise "Witch" (maybe due to nostalgia, who knows?), which is your prerogative and fine with me.

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I seem to find that all of these movies, though, have the same set of characters that are annoying and hard to like, and are acting like idiots from the start. Every film of this type, I find the character to be annoying people even before any action happens. I'm thinking it's kind of a formula so that the viewer actually feels glad when each of them meet a grisly death, lol.

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