Loved the characters - the film is a bit funny and scary. Great ending.

Released in 2013, "Another Kind" details events when four friends take a four-day snowshoeing hike in the Catskills and experience strange occurrences.This is a micro-budget small film, reportedly only costing $120,000, but it's so competently made it comes across as a bigger movie. It basically takes "The Blair Witch Project" template and makes a better movie. The four actors are all convincing and the dialogue, which might seem to contain a little too much bickering, is fairly realistic (I've been on trips with couples who frequently argue, so I know it happens). The first half hour is pretty humdrum, but then the events and filmmaking magic take you into the story. I almost never get creeped-out during movies, but a few parts of "Another Kind" were seriously creepy. Unlike some mystery movies that keep everything a mystery at the end, "Another Kind" spells it out, which will be a turn-off to some and a good thing to others. The film is short-and-sweet at 76 minutes and was shot in Catskill Mountains, New York, with the opening filmed in Brooklyn.GRADE: B***SPOILER ALERT*** (Don't read further if you haven't seen the movie)The ending reveals that there's an extraterrestrial attack on earth, so how does this explain the eerie events that the hikers experience. Evidently, the aliens assigned to this particular sector were toying with the hikers, like a cat with a mouse. They were just having some good sport with these easily-conquered low-life humans.

Expected this to be yet another tedious "found footage" movie but was pleasantly surprised to find that not the case. Does an admirable job of building mood, altho the characters are basically too stupid to be sympathetic. I mean, you go hiking in the woods without a map or compass? Really? And fall to arguing as soon as you're in the car? Meh. But the overall effectiveness is not greatly diminished by this cliché of genre films. Also affecting the movie is the lack of effective cinematography for a film set in the very scenic Catskill Mountains of New York. However, what is there does work. This was obviously shot on location somewhere it was hilly and wooded, and in the real winter, so that makes up for the otherwise lackluster camera work. The mood is sufficiently weird and creepy to achieve the atmosphere it's going for, and the ending out of left field is pure Twilight Zone stuff. Not a bad hour-and-sixteen minutes.

First of all, before watching this movie, read the title a couple of times and, believe me, it pretty much says it all about the threat that the characters will face in it. So if this is not your cup of tea, watch something else. That being said, aside from the fact that this movie is a very very close relative of The Blair Witch Project in its form and content, it is still somewhat entertaining. Unlike some people, I didn't mind the amateurish tone of the overall project. A few annoying details, however, kept me from being drawn into the story.1-The continuous fake wind whistling: being a "woodsman" myself, I know that this sound just never happens except in blizzards. In forest, you hear the trees rustling in the wind but not much more. A deep silence would have been more appropriate and would have added to the artistic value of the film. 2-The ominous experimental music: I would have appreciated something simpler that felt less like an arrogant intellectual display. Plus we get to discover, at the end, that the person that created the soundtrack is probably a fan of Bioshock. Hope he liked the last one as I did. 3-The end: the scope of what is revealed to us through the eyes of the surviving character kind of destroys everything the whole movie struggled to establish in the first place. I won't say too much but you'll know what I mean when and if you get there. Being a fan of survival horror genre, I still appreciated "Another Kind". But it didn't bring me the thrills and chills that some other similar movies did. I recommend it only to people who generally enjoy this kind of flick.