Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

d b So my girlfriend and I decided to give this one a shot because we are fans of found footage horror movies and really liked the Grave Encounters movies. We didn't expect too much from this movie, and that's about what we got. To sum up sxtape quickly, just imagine Grave Encounters...now remove all the parts where stuff actually happens, and you have this movie. Firstly, having only 2 characters for the bulk of the film really limits what can happen, especially when the story and dialog are as horrendous as they are here. The characters are not developed whatsoever and I feel like they act in completely random ways during the events of the movie and I don't get any kind of definition as to their character or personalities. The setting itself is great, but highly underutilized. Once again, we have yet another movie in an abandoned place where the director expects the location to carry the movie and make it "creepy" and "unsettling" by default without adding further elements to conjure those moods. So, we're left with a movie that mainly involves two people walking around in an asylum (that was performing lobotomies in 1982 apparently! to hell with sense. oh and the water and power still works. suuuure) and talking about random stuff (sometimes sex, sometimes "this is weird we should leave...but let's stay for some reason"). I didn't get the feeling that there was anything beyond a very loose story arc for this movie (there is going to be a boring intro, a "creepy" overly drawn out mid section, and a brief & very predictable climax). There was some stuff that happened, but there was no particular purpose behind any of it and none lead to any significant developments. One huge flaw I found with the movie is that any time a scene starts to pick up - you hear something in the distance, ominous music starts to play, some ghostly voices echo in the background, the cameraman starts to run...OK this is about to get good...and then, bizarrely, the camera shuts off and comes back on a second later in a different location where nothing is happening and nothing became of whatever situation was about to go down. This completely kills the mood. I have no idea why this "technique" was used over and over throughout the film but it made it a chore to sit through, since any time you think something is about to happen you are jarringly let down. I think there is also a plot about ghosts or something, but it is never fleshed out, nor does it have much bearing on anything that happens other than to provide a boo scare or two.Ultimately, this is just a bland attempt to follow in the footsteps of movies like Grave Encounters. Not the worst thing ever, though not particularly worth watching unless you absolutely must see every found footage horror movie out there.

IlyaSp7 Jill, she gets caught on cameras having sex with the other guy and tells her BF we only kiss... now what is point in movie?!? it shows guy thats do anything his gf wants she WHORE like 100% WHORE sleeps with other guy and his gf walk in see them and joins in? then that Jill has nerve go back to Adam like nothing happen...1st it was nice scare movie but that Jill WHORE kill movie. each movie need point start and end that movie did start so so 50% end Jill kill movie 0% rating. whats point in movie?!? All movie long she walking tells him she loves him and how she wants to be with him. than she go having sex with the other guy.how I see it the movie kinda had point in till Jill did what she did. now I know that in 2014 movies sex is normal thing but people what happen are we making cheating on bf or gf normal thing too now? what next?!? we will show rape movies? than nude kids under age? what are doing. what messg do this scene carry? it's OK to cheat, than tell your BF we just kiss?What next?!?!? next movie will give us messg it's OK to rape?!? and they did not even show that they got her and put her in jail... I don't know but I will never let my kids watch that movie its not even movie just messg every movie is messg that gets inside your brain, and that movie messg whore messg I ask you will you let your kids watch it? or tell your people about it? I think the person who made film did not really think what people real need. we need movies with point not cheating lesson.

walter radunsky While SX_Tape is not one of the best written films directed by Bernard Rose, it is nonetheless wonderfully executed. As far as found-footage horror films go, this is the best and most terrifying one I've seen. I can only assume that the low ratings received for a film this well done and frightening has more than a little to do with the behavior of the films protagonists, which many critics found "hateful" and "annoying." One such user review is even a word-for-word copy of a review published in 1INFLUX Magazine. I'm guessing that the characters got so far under the critic's skin, he couldn't help but to discredit this film anyway he possibly could. But truly bad or mediocre films are not so provocative. The lead characters in SX_TAPE are in fact self-absorbed, careless, insensitively voyeuristic, sarcastic, and self-destructive; but so are a great deal of today's youth. While depicting a boyfriend choosing to film his girlfriend bleeding rather than turning off the camera and helping her is unpleasant, it is nevertheless an honest reflection of a society in which there have been so many instances of people using their cell phones to record videos of others in trouble instead of calling for help. Once again, Bernard Rose has held a mirror up to our faces, and many of the critics don't like what they see. And whereas critical reflections of society were once praised, in today's mob-ruled media, they are vehemently despised.

Liam Blackburn The first half of the movie is pretty uneventful in terms of shocks or scares. It seems slow and pointless until you realize it serves to build up a complex dynamic between the two main characters. This film should be judged as a thriller not a shocker or paranormal. It's more about the characters than it is about the ghosts. Ultimately it seems like the ghost is somehow part of the main girl's psyche or something like that. There is definitely a connection to her being objectified by her video-taping boyfriend and the ghost etc. It's like the boarded-up institution is her inner-emotions and the ghost is the unleashing of them. She keeps wanting to go into this old abandoned mental institution but he doesn't want to. It's like he won't listen to her...But then she gets caught on cameras having sex with the other guy and the she shows her true demonic self anyway. Even in the end she shoots him and complains how he never listens to her.The first time they leave the institution you actually see the ghost in a split-second screenshot as the camera turns around. When you see the ghost later on in the movie it isn't that scary but it isn't cheesy either. Considering this is a really low-budget movie, the acting is really good and it holds its own as a solid FF film....and the ending is cool. You just have to think deeper instead of only looking on the surface.