(HORROR) Evidence - 2012 ***

Starts off quite well for a 'found footage' movie, but then descends into a complete chaotic mess. At the end it's really just absurd and I don't really get it. Saying that I don't get many horror movies but I still continue to watch them. To be fair there are a few jumpy moments which is more than can be said for many horror movies.

(HORROR) Crowsnest - 2012 **

Starts off well, as do many 'found footage' films, and then gradually progresses to being completely ridiculous. Why do people in mortal danger have to quiver and snivel and breathe SO loudly in films like this? Of course they are going to be seen! Idiots. The also have a tendency to poke their cameras/camcorders out of their hiding places into the faces of the psychopaths and then wait until they have nearly been dismembered alive before they run away. Quite predictable, but quite amusing anyway.

(HORROR) The Tapes - 2011 **

2013 Didn't begin well with the latest in the 'lost footage' movies I have seen. For one thing, the characters were so awfully unlikeable that you begin to have some empathy with the 'baddies' quite early in. Gemma, a harsh and remarkably trashy teenager with a gormless and frankly moronic boyfriend Danny go with their college friend to shoot Gemma's Big Brother audition tape (how original and non-tacky...) but instead stumble upon what they think is the location of a swingers group near the local pub. Abandoning the audition tape, they decide to try and film the party in full flow and then sell copies of the footage for some cash. They then realise the 'innocent' swingers party is actually a sadistic devil worshiping cult that they are right in the middle of. Oh dear. Maybe the reason none of these films impress me is because they are not in the least bit new and original. They are simply the same idea told in a slightly different way time after time. 

(HORROR) Exhibit A - 2010 ***

This was a deeply disturbing film. Not gory, but very weird showing the gradual breakdown of a family as the father gets more and more stressed with money and the mortage of the family home. The last twenty minutes or so are awful, mostly because we have been given time to watch this family grow together during the beginning of the film and have developed some sort of empathy for them. Disturbing series of events and not following the typical 'found footage' range of movies that have been churned out over the last few years.