UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

djbethell-746-488986 Sadly the other reviews do this film little to no justice. It breaks the rules and it's anarchy is unexplainable - you won't get many answers here, so those expecting the expected fare won't cope well with this journey into utter insanity. Enjoy this for what it is - a break-neck horror-train to the bitter-end.

chaosbaron The movie starts out with your standard slow buildup of characters conversing to each other, filming for no reason, creepy things being found or heard. All the standard clichés. Why I felt the reason to review this film was because this movie really went above and beyond with the shaky camera, screaming into the mic, and pointless static and video glitching. I couldn't even tell what was happening at the end of the film, it looked like you gave a 5 year old a phone camera and had them run through a haunted house, then added all sorts of shitty interference filters in after effect. This is too bad, as it seemed there were some interesting creatures and a stranger plot to be explored.... at least I think there was, it was really hard to see what I was looking at.

Ocrisia I've been reading the reviews and I really think the majority of people who wrote reviews either weren't paying attention or otherwise are partially brain dead. The story is NOT confusing at all, it's actually pretty straightforward. There are NO ZOMBIES. THIS IS NOT A ZOMBIE MOVIE. One reviewer wrote that the monsters are monsters because "they were exposed to a virus or some DNA" and besides the fact that that is not how biology works, again, no one is "exposed" to anything. The main premise of the film is that 4 young adults go camping, and things go horribly wrong. The guy who wrote the movie, Ryan McCoy, plays an aspiring documentary filmmaker (also named Ryan-all 4 major actors in the movie were called by their real names) and he is attempting to do a documentary about his friend, Brett. Before going further I want to point out that there are almost no boobs in this movie (one reviewer said something about "40 minutes of boobs later" which just causes me to think that he didn't even watch the thing before reviewing it) but at the beginning, while Ashley is packing, Ryan films her cleavage and she flashes him her nipples. For a split second. That's all the boobs in the movie. So Brett, Ryan, Ryan's girlfriend Abby, and her friend Ashley borrow a friend's RV, and they drive up to a pretty secluded area up in some mountains. They hear some weird noises, see a weird looking creature in the woods, and everyone wants to leave but Ryan. He has the keys to the RV, so they stay. The creatures start stalking them, they ruin the RV, and so they're stuck in the woods.We find out the creatures are coming from a testing facility presumably controlled by the government. There are no zombies, but when they run through you realize that the creatures were probably once human, or at least part human. There is one man in the facility in a hospital gown who acts crazy, and he makes the same sounds they heard in the woods. There are other creatures too. From what I understood, it is a bioengineering facility, and they'r making new creatures, some with human DNA (which is probably why some of the creatures were smart enough to do what they did the whole beginning of the film) but there are creatures other than the ones that were out in the woods as well, like a giant beetle-y bug that runs down a hallway. Some of the creatures that had seemed smart originally (the ones from the woods) do seem much less intelligent, but hey, some people are pretty stupid too, so maybe those creatures were created from the less intelligent people. I don't know. They don't explain everything, but that makes it better in my opinion. I watch a LOT of horror movies, and I'm pretty picky I think. You don't see many movies like this. I don't even like zombie movies, they're overdone and they've become so mainstream that they're not even really scary anymore. So I repeat- this is NOT A ZOMBIE MOVIE. It's better. It's much more original. For a found footage film, they show a lot, it's not all just screams and crying and the audience guessing. It looks like it was made with a very low budget, but it's much better than SO many bigger budget horror movies I've seen. It's creepy, it's not torture porn, it's not a remake, it's not a haunted house movie, and there are no zombies. Just for that it stands out to me. But it's definitely worth watching. It's a movie that makes you think a little, Anyone who is confused by this movie just either wasn't paying attention, or has a problem when it comes to using their imagination at all. If you're looking for a movie with a premise you haven't seen much of recently, give this a chance. It's def worth checking out.

pauljwilliams9 EVIDENCE is a 2012 found-footage horror film directed by Howie Askins from a screenplay written by Ryan McCoy, who also stars as our amateur camera operator.The set-up is a familiar horror-film trope: a quartet of attractive yuppies trek out to the wilds and inexplicably disappear, leaving behind their video footage to later be found for our enjoyment, yet still oftentimes fails to leave any resolution. The group we travel out with this time is Ryan (Ryan McCoy), who's filming Brett (Brett Rosenberg), and their two girlfriends, Abi (Abigail Richie), the shapely blonde, and Ashley (Ashley Bracken), the shorter brunette, covering all the bases for the younger-male-heterosexual audience. (And I don't know why found-footage film-makers continue to use the actors' real names as their characters' names. For authenticity's sake, I know, but in this day and age, give the audience more credit, please.Whereas THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, REC, CLOVERFIELD, et al. provide valid reasons for our cameraman/woman to be recording every single thing that happens, EVIDENCE's script is a little lazier with the reason we're seeing this footage: This is Brett's first time camping and his buddy Ryan wants to document the experience. It should be noted Brett is probably a thirty year-old man.We quickly travel out, via an R.V., to the beautiful mountain ranges of California. EVIDENCE learns from, in my humble opinion, the sins of a majority of found-footage movies: making us wait an eternity for something, anything, to happen. It's only fifteen minutes in that we're provided with our first scare, a daytime occurrence, too, that is very effective.Prior to this first scare, and continuing on after, are the requisite arguments and dissension among our group. Some of the first act is uncomfortably close to BLAIR WITCH, but after viewing the film, I wondered if this was by design and they were just toying with the audience. Questionable acting skills and fair writing make these arguments feel very manufactured and unnatural. Some casting choices pulled me out of the film, too, which is always unfortunate, but especially when you're passing off the movie as "real". The group is visited in the night by a creepy vagrant-type. With his bright white teeth and chiseled features, this jumped out to me as clearly a handsome actor bummed up for the scene.Once we get rolling, though, the movie is very enjoyable. There are plenty of jump scares and satisfyingly vague creatures that hunt them. One sequence reveals a creature on the R.V.'s reverse camera charging at the vehicle and it's very creepy and well done.Ultimately, the movie comes down to the third act, and it delivers, just not in the way I thought, or hoped. I was enjoying the glimpses and jump-scares in moderation. The finale offers creatures, government/military goons, blood, I don't know what the f*#k that was, zombies, gore; it's all there and makes you yell out, "Holy s#*t!". Yeah, there's a complete shift in tone, pacing, and even genre to a point, but Askin's direction and editing make for a non-stop, first-person shooter-esque experience. His skills are really on display here. We all know going in that we're not about to witness the next "Wuthering Heights" or "Casablanca". It's a fun seventy-eight minute escape.In a 2012 interview with the U.K.'s Daily Record, writer/actor Ryan McCoy states, "In January 2010, Paranormal Activity had just come out on DVD. I bought it, watched it and thought they had done so much in the set-up but somehow lost it at the end…I started thinking I could do a found-footage movie. However, my goal was to make it bigger with a last act no-one had seen before." Mission accomplished, my friend.CrashPalaceProductions.com