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I love found footage movies...too bad this one blows

posted 9 years ago by pona
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I watched this one last night on Amazon, and what a disappointment. I LOVE found footage/faux documentary genre of horror, but this one went so wrong.

SPOILERS AHEAD:

The first third of the movie introduces us to an assortment of immature teens (who except for one, look WAY older, especially the tattooed fighter). These guys get together, get drunk and reveal that they intend to catch the main guy, Zach's, girlfriend being unfaithful with some unknown dude named Carl. First plot hole--of which there are many--Zach should know who Carl is, but has never heard the name before. Zach's girlfriend's BFF, Presley, reveals this information to Zach and then Zach starts fooling around with Presley (so now isn't Zach a cheater too?). For some reason (that never gets explained), the tattooed guy gets violently pissed when the other dudes call the girl a slut for fooling around with Zach. Presley then begs the gang not to confront the cheating girlfriend, because Carl is very disturbed and dangerous, but the guys do so anyway.

On their way to confront the cheater, they each arm themselves with some weird fantasy-genre weapons, like a short snake dagger and a wicked looking Freddy Krueger/Wolverine piece.

I was getting excited, as here is where I thought the story was going to get extreme and raw. The confrontation turns bizarre and violent, however not in any entertaining way.

Halfway through the movie the footage stops and now we see see the aftermath of the events years later as two cops are interviewed about the murders. Unfortunately this cuts out any suspense as we know who survived the event. There's a missing 15 minutes of the video that the cops then find and this puts a supposedly more sinister cast on the events. Not really. Meh.

Worse, it's so painfully obvious who's interviewing the two cops, you're scratching your head wondering why they're so dumb.

This part was just a lame ripoff of "Shutter Island," a movie I disliked, but looks Oscar worthy compared to this mess.

Yet another found footage that starts off interesting then veers off into boring, and will have you asking "Why is the camera still running?" Well, at least there were no stupid CGI effects or supernatural twist.

Has anybody else seen this Atrocity yet?

[–] dutchusc 9 years ago

SPOILERS

"Worse, it's so painfully obvious who's interviewing the two cops, you're scratching your head wondering why they're so dumb. "

The police were in on the "charade" from the beginning to help Bobby's rehabilitation right?

EDIT: I just realized what I think you mean. How come the police didn't recognize the camera operator?!

[–] Thrill_KillZ 9 years ago

It's pretty sloppy and disjointed, but possibly worth a watch very late when sleep is likely to interrupt the film. These films are great when you're in need of a watchable but forgettable horror flick. I wouldn't recommend it for anything else, but the above situation.

I give it a 4.5/10 which is much higher than the sh!tstream of horror flicks that Amazon Prime has picked up, they have been including every single solitary "film" out there, many with budgets of $150-$300, I love a good indie low budget competent horror/thriller but they should have someone screen them before adding them to their free watch list. Just because people have a subscription doesn't mean that they are willing to watch anything, they could really use a quality control guy to actually watch these films before blindly adding them to their title list.

[–] davannacarter 9 years ago

It never ceases to make my jaw drop that in the age of free pirated content people still pay to rent movies.