a5c7b9f00b In Gracefield, three couples are spending a long weekend in a luxurious cabin when suddenly an uninvited guest in the form of a meteorite, comes crashing the party… Matthew and Jessica are on their way to the hospital. Jess is pregnant and they&#39;re going to their second ultrasound to learn the sex of the baby. Matthew is recording a video journal and in the midst of it, they get T-Boned.<br/><br/>The accident causes Jess to miscarriage, but also takes out Matthew&#39;s right eye.<br/><br/>One year later, Matthew is installing an iPhone camera into a prosthetic eye to record a party over the weekend.<br/><br/>Along with two other couples, the weekend excursion is at Matt&#39;s boss&#39;s house. His boss is letting them use itpart of recovery for Matt&#39;s accident. He&#39;s also a conspiracy theorist/trapper and built the property to catch a sasquatch.<br/><br/>Matt&#39;s friend Joe brings along his new DSLR camera and is also frequently recording.<br/><br/>During the party, a meteorite hits and Matt and Joe go to investigate…<br/><br/>That&#39;s essentially the jist. Mathieu Ratthe wrote and directed what could have been a brilliant movie. Instead what we got was something that was almost good.<br/><br/>The acting was at times forced and wooden. Other times it wasn&#39;t terrible. The plot involved stupid people doing things they shouldn&#39;t be doing - like sticking their arm in a strange meteorite. There seriously could have been a better catalyst for everything. The ending was a bit disappointingwell. It wasn&#39;t badly written, but I felt it was badly delivered.<br/><br/>That being said, there WERE some good points in this. The movie involves aliens (not sasquatch), and we only truly see the alien at the end (see my previous statement). The scenes where the alien is involved have great tension and deliver some pretty good jump scares.<br/><br/>Also, the direction is done really well. The cast may not have done a great job, but Mr. Ratthe has his vision and I only hope he improves. Also, the production values were very good for being a low budget film.<br/><br/>As some people know. I&#39;ve become a fan of found footage movies over the years. The best in recent memory were Chronicle, The Frankenstein Theory, Diary of the Dead, and of course, Cloverfield. With a little more refinement this could have joined that group. In fact, this could have worked outa Cloverfield movie. If it had a bigger budget…who knows?<br/><br/>All in all, the bad in this outweighed the good. The potential to be great is there. Mr. Ratthe just needs a little more time and the right support behind him.<br/><br/>Frankly, I hope he gets it. Before we go on, I must digress I LOVE Found-Footage type films. This one, I had never heard of before. The name, is too, misleading. Makes it sound like some haunting somewhere. There is no set-up, voice-over or explaining on-screen titles. Only once the film had been on for a bit did I realize. It&#39;s my favorite genre, so am the true expert. This starts fast and it contains some genuine scares/frights. The reveal towards the end had my jaw drop. SPOILER SPACE:IT HAS A GREAT ENDING The thrills become rather predictable.
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