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Island Zero (2018)
Ooof
This is just embarrasingly bad.
Starts off as your average low budget whatever horror that you will be mildly interested in while watching and then forget in a couple of days. But then it get worse and worse.
The acting is bad, the movie has no atmosphere and therefore is at no point scary. But since no one tries to act scared it seems almost appropriate.
Movie is obviously very low budget, but you can't seriously pretend that making the monster invisible is somehow a good workaround. When not invisible it's depicted in infrared as an outdated 3d model flailing around. Ooof. Whenever the movie comes to a point where it would need a special effect, camera shyly looks away. Not like in artistic way or in any way integrated into the narrative or visual style. Camera just lifts up a bit and then comes back. Never seen anything like this before. But then there are a couple of gore shots and effects are, again, embarrassingly bad. Like one of those fake movies from the horror movie mill bad.
Now checking it out, it seems like it's a vanity project by some toilet romance detective "literature" writer mother with her son in a director seat. Man the only way this could be more embarrassing if she actually starred as her self insert the tough doctor(Tess used to be one, yeah).
Everyone involved should be slightly ashamed of their choices. Not a lot, but still. Maybe it would take away some of this second hand embarrassment I'm drowning in right now.
Savageland (2015)
Where is the movie?
Well this movie has a clear cut message of WHITE PEOPLE BAD and I guess illegal immigrants living in some isolated community are not treated as full citizens?
Don't know about the first one, I'm not American. Maybe their white people are that bad, maybe they are all hateful rednecks. The other one is a bit strange to me, since one would absolutely expect limited resources of a country to be used for the people of that country first. So this certainly flies over my head, but I guess that's a different culture for you. No judging, you people do you.
But you should probably make an actual movie if you want these messages to not fall flat more than they naturally do? We get a bunch of interviews intercut with each other, and sometimes there's some spooky smudged picture of zombies flashing on the screen. Be scared, the demons of photoshop will get you! There's a bit of dude walking in the desert while giving an interview. Good on him, getting some exercise.
I'm looking forward to the sequel which would be some black dude's podcast but he occasionally throws napkins with fbi crime stats scribbled on them at the camera.
Zhou (2022)
Invisible Cameradude's Bizzare Adventure in the Land of CGI Maggots
Movie couldn't decide wether it wanted to be a found footage or not, so we get multiple hand held cameras filming at the same time, laptop cameras, security cameras, any object that could potentially hold a camera becomes a camera and seamlessly integrates with every camera footage and am I a camera? And on top of that I guess some random invisible dude following our characters and making sure a camera is always pointing at our characters even when no one is holding it. He's the true hero of this movie, sacrificing his face exposure so we wouldn't be too immersed in this movie. Or so the director doesn't have to think too much about angles and timings and all the hard filming stuff involved with found footage genre. There's something spooky! Quick invisible man, take the shot! Who is filming this in movie logic and who edited it and why am I so bored? I bet it was the Cameradude, he did it all.
Ah, don't think about that stuff, here's a jump scare! Here's a couple more! They're not effective at all since there's barely any suspense but they're there because that's what you put in horror movies, right?
Oh, and here's what feels like 2 hours of a little girl acting. There's a point where she gets into a dangerous situation and you think she's about to die so the movie could get into something that is less of a slog. But back she comes, so we could be forced to care about her for the rest of the movie.
Involving viewers in movie's curse is an ok idea, but you want the immersion for that to work. Stick to found footage basics if you want that to happen. Or make a normal movie and then tie it somehow. Or just film some little girl pushing her lines out if you're into that, I don't know man, I just hope the Cameradude is ok.
And don't use CGI maggots. Just don't.