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Better than I expected

posted 12 years ago by myfavoriteritual
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The jump scares are predictable but effective. The obscure lighting and brief glimpses of freaky mutants are old hat but scary. The ending is kind of silly but sort of awesome, too.

The characters aren't very likable. They do some really stupid stuff and scream way too much. Plus, they don't even get "good deaths." They just disappear.

Overall, though, it's an entertaining movie. The camera work is surprisingly competent, in a hand-held, lost footage sort of way (the movie is not billed as lost footage but it still has that feel).

[–] pdmh48 12 years ago

I liked it, too. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, just to be entertained.

[–] antonio8885 11 years ago

Yeah even though I'm sure the main characters knew something about American tourists vanishing or murdered in foreign countries...they had to have known about the Natalie Holloway story from modern media, even if they weren't horror fans and didn't see HOSTEL or TURISTAS!

BUT...for some reason I thought this was one of the most surprisingly suspenseful and outright scariest fright flicks I've seen in a while! Hopeless & relentless all the way through!

I'm in the minority but I really liked it!

[–] Rena_Mahone 9 years ago

We agree about the movie being better than expected. As for the rest of your post...
This film is absolutely not found footage (or lost footage, as you call it). It's no Cloverfield or Blair Witch Project - thankfully.
I disagree about the characters being stupid or screaming too much; they are more likeable and smart than the average horror group.
I didn't mind the lack of gore. If anything, it made the deaths more realistic.
The ending is anything but silly.

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