BeSummers
Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Filipe Neto
Another European horror film, very low budget. This is one of those "found-footage" movies that, unfortunately, have been used a lot by amateur directors, with little money for great productions and good cameras. The result is another suffering film, with a deeply mediocre cinematography. Is it necessary to shake so much? Okay, the movie is "found-footage", but we still have to be able to figure out something about what's being "filmed" (I put quotation marks because we cannot really call it filming), did you know that? The plot is basic: two idiot Americans (always the Americans) are vacationing in Barcelona, in search of the normal things that American teens want to find in Europe: a lot of cheap fun, girls willing to get laid easily, loud music and other amusements for Americans with an IQ below 40. But what looked like a lucky night with two naughty girls will end badly, when a bloodthirsty ghost appears to shred the whole world.The movie takes a while to get where the action really starts and this is annoying, but then we end up missing that, because the rest of the film is a succession of racing, falling, bleeding... all mixed with the usual sound attempts to scare the audience and a lot of fake blood splashing around. Unfortunately, when the film begins with these things, we're already so bored and so tired of these two idiots that we just want them to die quickly for the movie to end.
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.
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.
befoulmetalroosa
This has to be one of the most obnoxious, annoying, and downright offensive movies I've ever seen. It starts out with a gross out gag to end all gross out gags. A guy puking his guts out in a toilet with no water. Urgh! I couldn't watch it, for fear of vomiting myself, it was so gross and disgusting. Did they feed the actor syrup of ipecac to make him vomit like that!? Sheesh! Then we get to Barcelona. Let me tell you, these two young 'men' made America look bad, as if we don't have enough help with that with Bush Jr. and Trump. 'Barcelona women think Americans are gods or something' is the gist of the reasoning for going bar hopping. Really??? The hook up and subsequent hunt through a darkened house was formulaic. There were a couple of decent jump scares, but come on. It was a really dark house with the spotlight on the handicam the only source of lighting. Someone jumping at you out of the dark would make anyone jump. The story itself was insanely stupid, and the ending just bites. After offing the killer 'ghost' and his 'best friend', the guy leaves a heartwarming (hear the sarcasm?) message to the girl who dumped him, telling her that she was the only one for him and that he'll be waiting for her, only to drop himself off of the third floor landing of the stairs.It was so effing stupid. The whole movie. Stupid. A waste of celluloid. The young men playing the 'friends' were pathetic and weak. Screaming unintelligibly at each other as the nightmare (for us) continued. The drunk hook up was a waste. She was only there so that it wouldn't seem weird for two guys and one girl to be in the same house together. Just, blech.
