This is one of those films that greatly benefits from being very short, only about 1 hour and 15 minutes, and probably could've stood to be 5 or 10 minutes shorter, even. it's unclear what the actual subject of the documentary the characters are filming is, but it doesn't matter and no one cares, this is a Boogin Film and we want to see the boogin, while not actually seeing the boogin in case the boogin costume/puppet/effect is poor quality and draws us out of the immersion. the film does a great job of balancing that, giving us perpetually tantalizing quick shots of the boogin while not letting us see very clearly what it is. Its very first appearance is rather Bigfoot-y, while the first time you get a frontal shot of it, it looks like a giant sloth, and the more the film lets slip of it, it ends up looking rather like an orangutan or gorilla with the head of an owl. this film treads over a lot of clichés of found footage horror, including the disbelieving friend, a red herring stranger encounter (in the form of a wacky ass guy with a gun claiming to be looking for his dog), and a secret government facility with weird shenanigans happening. However the film does good by not lingering on these tropes, either drawing them out or having a strained sequence where, for example, the main characters wander into a government lab and come across a working computer or big binder fully explaining all the details of what's going on and them having a big revelation like "THIS is where all the Bigfoot sightings come from!" or "THIS is the source of the Philadelphia Experiment!" the entire sequence through the government facility is one of perpetual running, with no time to sit still and look around or take in what is happening. More of the Boogins begin to appear, and when we get the reveal of their source, it continues to not let us get much more information or any clear reason why the Boogins look and act the way they do. the end credits sequence is rather messy, with lots of pseudo digital distortion making it difficult to see or read things on screen, while also showing a quick compilation of random clips apparently taken in the government facility involving the boogins. it's not clear whether these take place before or after the film itself, and they too give very little actual information on what is happening and why. And I like it that way. I love movie mysteries that are either unresolved or only partially solved. I love that there was a whole world of backstory in this secret government facility that was completely denied to us because we were busy being chased by murderous owl-sloth boogins. Our lives are in danger, we shouldn't care about any of this. It was a fast and fun ride.

This was one of the better found footage movies i've seen. The idea was amazing and it looked amazing for only having a 12,000 dollar budget. ***SPOILERS***Basically the whole movie is about these people who go camping in the woods to discover this ape-like creature hunting them. After trying to escape, they get caught in the mix of something they were never meant to be in. They discover mutated people/animals, alien- like creatures, the same ape-like creature as before, etc. The whole area was basically an area for the military to do experiments and one of the creatures got out which caused all the others to escape as well. An obvious sign that they were in a military zone was the "Trespassing" sign they saw at the beginning and mocked the camera guy (Not good with names. Ryan i think) about his spelling. All in all, it was an AWESOME movie. So far one of the best found footage B-movies I've seen.

yes, many reviews here already stated: this movie takes a really surprising turn. i mean, before that it is still pretty creepy with those ominous things stalking them. who wouldn't be freaked out by that? well, the camera guy as it seems. half of the protagonists is, sadly, totally horrible people. they just pi*s each other off and you actually kinda hope something happens to them. the girls are more fun. but they scream and whine waaaay too much in my opinion, though that might be due to the localisation (i watched this in German). so overall the movie delivers a great chill, then an unexpected plot twist and while stuff happens you always think "how the hell might that situation turn out now?" and on a side note: why do people always need to refer to the blair witch project? this movie has nothing to do with it, it just happens to be the same genre. when i watch an action movie i don't always refer to james bond. there will always be similarities because of genre but thats it.

EVIDENCE is a 2012 found-footage horror film directed by Howie Askins from a screenplay written by Ryan McCoy, who also stars as our amateur camera operator.The set-up is a familiar horror-film trope: a quartet of attractive yuppies trek out to the wilds and inexplicably disappear, leaving behind their video footage to later be found for our enjoyment, yet still oftentimes fails to leave any resolution. The group we travel out with this time is Ryan (Ryan McCoy), who's filming Brett (Brett Rosenberg), and their two girlfriends, Abi (Abigail Richie), the shapely blonde, and Ashley (Ashley Bracken), the shorter brunette, covering all the bases for the younger-male-heterosexual audience. (And I don't know why found-footage film-makers continue to use the actors' real names as their characters' names. For authenticity's sake, I know, but in this day and age, give the audience more credit, please.Whereas THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, REC, CLOVERFIELD, et al. provide valid reasons for our cameraman/woman to be recording every single thing that happens, EVIDENCE's script is a little lazier with the reason we're seeing this footage: This is Brett's first time camping and his buddy Ryan wants to document the experience. It should be noted Brett is probably a thirty year-old man.We quickly travel out, via an R.V., to the beautiful mountain ranges of California. EVIDENCE learns from, in my humble opinion, the sins of a majority of found-footage movies: making us wait an eternity for something, anything, to happen. It's only fifteen minutes in that we're provided with our first scare, a daytime occurrence, too, that is very effective.Prior to this first scare, and continuing on after, are the requisite arguments and dissension among our group. Some of the first act is uncomfortably close to BLAIR WITCH, but after viewing the film, I wondered if this was by design and they were just toying with the audience. Questionable acting skills and fair writing make these arguments feel very manufactured and unnatural. Some casting choices pulled me out of the film, too, which is always unfortunate, but especially when you're passing off the movie as "real". The group is visited in the night by a creepy vagrant-type. With his bright white teeth and chiseled features, this jumped out to me as clearly a handsome actor bummed up for the scene.Once we get rolling, though, the movie is very enjoyable. There are plenty of jump scares and satisfyingly vague creatures that hunt them. One sequence reveals a creature on the R.V.'s reverse camera charging at the vehicle and it's very creepy and well done.Ultimately, the movie comes down to the third act, and it delivers, just not in the way I thought, or hoped. I was enjoying the glimpses and jump-scares in moderation. The finale offers creatures, government/military goons, blood, I don't know what the f*#k that was, zombies, gore; it's all there and makes you yell out, "Holy s#*t!". Yeah, there's a complete shift in tone, pacing, and even genre to a point, but Askin's direction and editing make for a non-stop, first-person shooter-esque experience. His skills are really on display here. We all know going in that we're not about to witness the next "Wuthering Heights" or "Casablanca". It's a fun seventy-eight minute escape.In a 2012 interview with the U.K.'s Daily Record, writer/actor Ryan McCoy states, "In January 2010, Paranormal Activity had just come out on DVD. I bought it, watched it and thought they had done so much in the set-up but somehow lost it at the end…I started thinking I could do a found-footage movie. However, my goal was to make it bigger with a last act no-one had seen before." Mission accomplished, my friend.CrashPalaceProductions.com