To me, Sanchez just falls back on making the same movie here that he made before. The second half of Exists is still better than most of The Blair Witch Project. Now I definitely got more engaged in the film when the first half was done so that I could actually get to the meat of the story. I found many of the characters in the film to be poorly written with no character development whatsoever. It only looked good when we finally see it on film. When filmmakers take use of shaky-cam, the creature comes off looking like a hairy dude in a suit. So then why have it on the poster? Why get a terrific company like WETA to do your creature effects? Why do this and then deliberately obscure the creature. I mean, I get it, you are trying to do the Jaws thing and keep the monster hidden. Something out for revenge.įor a film that never hides the fact that it’s a movie about Bigfoot (Brian Steele, Terminator: Salvation, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues), this film sure likes to keep Bigfoot at bay and hidden for most of the film. The group enjoys their time at the cabin for the entire next day before finding themselves hunted by something. When they hit something with the car, only to find nothing outside, the group ventures by foot to the cabin. Brian (Chris Osborn, #REALITYHIGH, A Close Divide) and Matt (Samuel Davis, Last Flag Flying, Cabin Fever) have an uncle Bob with a cabin that they can stay at. It merely stumbled.įive friends have set out on an outdoor adventure in east Texas. Sadly, this one didn’t stumble into greatness. He and Daniel Myrick proved that the concept can work, and then he tried some other stuff, and then went back for his next project: Exists. Eduardo Sanchez ( The Blair Witch Project, Lovely Molly) is quite well known for really creating the found-footage subgenre, or accidentally stumbling across it. Rated R for language throughout, some violence, sexual content and drug use.įound footage will never really go away there will just be good ones that surface in the pile of trash. Nothing more to say on the subject.įor my review of Eduardo Sánchez’s The Blair Witch Project, click here.įor my review of Eduardo Sánchez’s Exists, click here.Ĭast: Dora Madison Burge, Samuel Davis Roger Edwards, Chris Osborn, Brian Steele, Denise WilliamsonĨ1 mins. Eduardo Sánchez just didn’t make a good movie. I think you can make a good film with this central idea. There’s nothing good about Seventh Moon except perhaps the kernel of an idea that this legend is real.
I don’t know enough about either of them to really care that anything bad is happening (I also wouldn’t have a clue what was happening anyway). I have no idea what happens in this movie after the first ten minutes because the camera can’t focus on a single element onscreen.Īmy Smart and Tim Chiou are probably trying their best, but the screenplay is pretty close to just screaming and yelling, not too far off from The Blair Witch Project.
The cam is shakier than it is in most found-footage films. This movie isn’t a found-footage film, but it is shot with a shaky cam that’s so noticeably bad and confusing (dare I say headache-inducing) that it’s incomprehensible to even know what’s happening most of the time. First of all, let’s settle the big problem here. There’s not a single element of this film that works. Melissa (Amy Smart, Just Friends, Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars) and her Chinese American husband Yul (Tim Chiou, Fat Camp, TV’s Living with Models) are celebrating their honeymoon in China, and everything seems to be going very well, but one night, as they are taking the car back from a festival they were attending, they become stranded in a village that they do not know…and they are being followed by something not human. Is Eduardo Sánchez ( The Blair Witch Project, Exists) capable of doing something that isn’t found-footage? Until today, I’d only seen his found-footage films, and they were hit-and-miss for me, so I was interested in seeing what else this director had to give. Rated R for language and violence/horror.