FlashCallahan Another week another found footage horror. I'm a big advocate of the found footage genre, ever since the behemoth of The Blair Witch Project exploded onto our screens in 1999, we have had an abundance of film makers trying to emulate that films success.Many have nearly succeeded, like Cloverfield, P.A, and Skew to name a few, but there have been a plethora that have really failed to make the cut.And here is another example of a failing.So we have your atypical team of teens going away for the weekend to have a party and a something a little more spicy, but of course, we always have the one with the video camera, the one who knows about the legend of the house/place, and the one who for some reason thinks it's a good idea to do a Ouija board...And this is where the film fails, it never offers anything original, we just have our gang hearing very loud noises in the shadows, one swears that they have seen something, the others think that the party boy of the gang is playing a prank, and then they begin to get picked off one by one.The setting looks like an abandoned working men's club, the cast are your atypical unlikable group you can't wait to see the back off, and that's the film.It's boring, and even though it has quite an encouraging premise, the makers never really give the concept the respect it deserves.I'm sure I will trudge through more found footage films that are just as bad, but you never know when that gem will pop up next, so in some sadistic way, it's worth putting up with dreck like this.I'll suffer for you guys....

The_Celluloid_Sage I really don't know where to start with this one, there is just so much wrong with it. I will start by saying that this review is only for the first forty minutes of the film. That's right, didn't even make it to the end, which is actually a first for me. OK, the director and writer hails from Brazil. Seems he has written/directed/edited/produced a few things over there and runs his own production company (Red Line Films). This appears to be his first English speaking feature.We follow a group of highly obnoxious college kids on a trip out into the middle of nowhere to go to what seems to be an old disused hostel of types (though they have keys for the joint). The guys barely have the maturity level of ten year old, and the girls...well, while passable to look at I guess could not be anymore stereo-typically 'helpless females' if they tried.Let's get to the film style. This is a found footage, but the shaky cam is beyond bad. I normally don't mind stuff like this, but after twenty minutes even I was starting to get a headache. Suffer from motion sickness, stay away from this one (in fact, stay away from this garbage regardless). Now, anyone with half a brain (and remember folks, Ireland and specifically County Sligo is not a big place) would maybe set off in the morning to get to your destination? Not these bozo's.They arrive at a lake (which takes them all of four minutes to row across) in the middle of the damn night, then hike (once on an apparent island) to the hostel...where more school-ground humour is to be inflicted upon us. It never got any better and by all accounts from other reviews around the web, I didn't miss much.Now, I believe this was filmed in 3 days. It really shows. Secondly, they used an estimated budget of approximately two thousand Euro. This doesn't show. Quite frankly I'm struggling to figure out where the money went. Maybe on the shopping trip at the start of the film...petrol maybe? Perhaps they bought a new mobile phone to film with on the way? I have no idea. They couldn't even get a real Ouija board for the film which you can buy for a tenner! Now in fairness to the people involved, I admire that they are trying to do what they want. But seriously, surely at some point in time, you have to realise and accept, that you're just plain not very good at it? Also annoyingly, let your product stand on its own feet, don't get your mates to big it up. Of the 313 current votes on IMDb, 45 idiots rated this film an eight or higher! Please, stop! This is one to truly forget folks.The Sage's Rating: 1/10

blair_r Horror movies are awesome and the ones that frighten you and make you sit at funny angles are worth they're weight in gold.There's a lot of rubbish out there believe me I've watched them all, I just cant help myself no matter how bad. Because of this that makes me a bit of an expert. So when I tell you ya must see it ........ Get on it. The characters are excellent the acting is quality I was sat at a funny angle for the second half. Not saying the build up was not up to scratch because it was it gets the horror going really well. I was forever stopping the movie and rewinding to see if anything was going on in the background. Deserves to be up there with The Blair Witch, Rec, Cloverfield and Evidence. All Fantastic FF horror in they're own right. A Must See for True Horror fans. 3:)

HorrorOverEverything First off I would like to say I really hate it when people who are attached to a film come on here and give it positive reviews, just let your movie speak for itself, why try and trick people into seeing it? With that said I feel like I must say that those fake reviews in no way effected my thoughts on this film or my following review.So here we go again with another cliché found footage film. Since the success of Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity we have seen a huge influx of these types of movies, and honestly I think it's safe to say that this may be one of the worst ones that I have seen (I have seen a lot). The film kicks off with a group of friends driving out to a hostel, once they get there we are treated to about an hour of them talking over each other and saying things that no body cares about. We never learn anything about our characters, we are never given any information that would make us care about them or what is going to happen to them.So after an hour of nothingness things start to pick up a little bit, there are one or two flashes or a creepy girl in a dress and then things just get obnoxious. There is a point in the final 25 minutes where one of the female leads screams almost non stop until the final scene, a high pitched extremely annoying scene. I really wanted to shut the film off at this point but figured I had made it that far so I might as well finish it. So the friends just run around in the dark while they get picked off one by one (I guess, it doesn't really show what happens to most of them), then we get one more really poorly edited scare scene and the credits roll.This is a bad movie, odds are the people who made it knew it was a bad movie. Found Footage is the go to genre for film makers who don't have an original idea or any kind of budget. Obnoxious characters, no real dialogue, bad effects, and a terrible pace make this one of the worst found footage films ever made.