SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

vixenwench-856-618860 Michael Boi tried to excuse this inane attempt at a movie by saying it was supposed to caution people about internet predators. This is just exploitation. A total waste of time. Who the hell calls internet video chat "webbing"?! Did the director really believe that's how teenagers talk? And supposedly he took the blowjob description "word-for-word" from interviewing a 13-year-old girl! I think the only thing he did remotely correct was to show me how to dispose of this DVD. Seal it in a plastic barrel with decayed human remains and then bury it in a shallow grave late at night. So glad they recorded every FaceTime message and their webcams were constantly recording whenever they used their computer. The "torture porn" picture that was "too disturbing" for a fetish site's webmaster could have easily been my last appointment at the orthodontist.

skuggi_drago I found this on Hulu and decided to give it a shot. I was expecting a Lifetime style drama about how talking to strangers on the internet is bad. What I got however was a found footage style thriller/horror film. It opens by explaining this is based on true events and then goes on to portray the footage as "real". You are told from the beginning when the girls go missing. The majority of the film is spent following the very stereotypical girls doing cliché teenage stuff. The acting goes back and forth from being painfully believable and just feeling really forced. After Megan's disappearance the creepy element really starts to kick in. There is one scene where Amy is sitting under a bridge with a teddy bear. While she is explaining why she keeps it there, a figure appears in the background behind some bushes. It is a very simple thing, but the way it was done creeped me out. From here on the movie takes a turn for the very dark and disturbing in a way that I wish I had been warned ahead of time about. The last 20ish minutes is very hard to watch and I would not recommend that anyone who is easily triggered watch this. It has been a few days since I watched this movie, and the images from the last half are still sticking with me.

mwcanadian-99023 **may contain spoilers* This movie is just bad in so many ways. I'll start with the first problem. the director is so bad that he yells the word "action" and it can be heard! That's not the best directing there. The 2nd problem is of course the acting. I give them credit for trying, but these two did not act like teenage girls, the one girl Amy was particularly bad with the one scene that causes controversy and Megan is so annoying that you kinda don't care if she did go missing.The 3rd problem is how disturbing it felt watching it. I just didn't enjoy the disturbing movie and it wasn't just disturbing for that one controversial scene, it was disturbing for the unrealistic parts. For one, Amy doesn't tell the police about Josh right away. Two, they don't really take her too seriously and somehow it gets leaked that she gave the police information. Honestly, this is a movie that should be avoided. They said it's based on a true story (or a bunch of true stories or something), but the closest true story i see is the Ashley Pond case, but that case had a huge difference. In Pond's case, she and her friend were murdered by another friend's dad and not by an online guy they never met. Ashley and Miranda didn't get picked up by an online predator, just a sicko dad who wanted his daughter's friends. This movie is trying to get the message about not falling for "online predators" but i think they would've done a much better job giving this message out by making a short show about online predators or supporting other movies or shows that give the message out better than this. if you want to watch it, then that's up to you, but trust me you won't enjoy it. The first part of the movie is just dull as dirt (until the director says action, then you can laugh at that) while the second part of the movie will just disturb you and the ending is just bad.

mikelepost There are so many things wrong with this movie that I don't even know where to begin. I guess I will start with the format.I'm not a fan of found footage in general, but Megan is Missing is exceptionally lazy in that it barely even adheres to this conceit. In order for the movie to work we the audience are expected to belief that teenagers in 2007 communicate almost entirely via video chat and that these conversations were recorded and stored. We are also expected to believe that photos and video of sexual assaults and murders were made available to the filmmakers. Since the film is never once convincing as found footage I have to wonder why the writer / director chose to tell the story this way.The acting ranges from barely adequate to absolutely atrocious across the board. The two main actresses are never convincing as 14/15 year olds and their performances are mediocre at best. Everyone else who appears on camera - the news anchors, the parents, the other friends - is downright embarrassing. They are not helped at all by the largely expositional and tin eared dialogue.While I am sure there are 14 year old kids out there doing drugs and having sex at random, the portrayal of those types of teens in this film did not ring true to me at all. The pervy, leering tone of the film reminded me a lot of movies I've seen by Larry Clark, where we the audience are theoretically supposed to be wringing our hands over the wasted youth of today etc. but the camera keeps ogling the hot young bodies on screen.This is particularly true of a scene where Megan recounts being forced to blow a 17 year old camp counselor when she was 10, giggling about it the whole time like it is an embarrassing sexual story and not actual rape. There are several other scenes of unnecessary sexuality in the film including a rape scene that make me feel like the film is implying that Megan deserves what eventually happens to her. That, or director Michael Goi is just a pedophile.The first 50 or so minutes of the film almost entirely consist of banal, repetitive dialogue and bad acting. Then we get to the two pictures of Megan and the final 20 minutes. This is the point where Megan is Missing shifts from being a terrible after school special and instead becomes a sadistic found footage horror film. These scenes are undeniably a gut punch and the only reason to see the movie at all.Here's the thing though: To this point Goi has positioned the film as one of those message movies that are supposed to serve as a wake up call to parents. But the film ultimately is pervy and disgusting exploitation. The director's claim that Megan is Missing is about anything other than presenting the highly sexualized torture and murder of its main characters is completely disingenuous and reminded me a LOT of the opening crawl to Chaos (2005) claiming that it was intended to save lives.The ONLY audience for this film are horror fans looking for something disturbing. That is fine, but I'm just warning you the movie absolutely sucks, nothing happens for the vast majority of the run time and you'll feel like you need a shower afterward. Consider that a warning or an endorsement.