I heard about this movie from a friend who was demanded to watch this by her mother, claiming it would show her a glimpse of what would happen if she allowed her children on the internet. So she watched it, called her mother, and long story short, unfriended her on Facebook. I knew this had to be a good movie.I asked to borrow the DVD, I was ready. So hoping it was going to be this over the top fear mongering film like those ads where Peewee Herman appeared from the shadows and started talking to me about crack. I watched the whole thing. It was so bad. That one scene where a character confronts one of the main girls was amazing. If you don't think me and my friends act out that scene randomly for no reason, you'd be wrong. It tries to take itself too seriously when it doesn't even show how the internet really can harm a child. Megan didn't need to ONLY video chat with skaterboy, she could of messaged him, sent him pictures, video recorded her doing sexual things cause he asked her too. Built this relationship up until she goes missing. How much better would that have been rather then her just looking at me straight from the screen while talking to this guy? Please Megan, I don't like you like that and I hate confrontation.What can I say other then this is a movie. Can I recommend it? Yes and no. If you are looking for something that will scare you into not letting your kid even look at computer, don't watch this, instead watch Trust (2010) a movie that takes this almost same premise and does it better. On the other hand, if you have a horrible sense of humor and just enjoy bad movies, give this one a try.I'm bringing it to the next movie night and I told the friend whose hosting it and he is upset. It's gonna be good.

*Contains spoilers* So this is my first ever review and quite honestly the only reason I signed up to IMDb was to review this film. Many people on here have listed it as a film that is too disturbing and hard to stomach so being a big fan of the "disturbing" film genre it was an absolute MUST for me to see what all the hype was about. If you do seek out this film for its shock value and gore you will have to persevere for the majority of the film, I will say that. There was many points where I did think of switching it off and giving up as the first hour and a bit of the film is filled with quite bad acting, mainly on the part of Megan's character but I decided to see it through to see if there was in fact this "stomach turning" scene.The film revolves around two best friends Megan who is 14 and Amy who is 13. Megan is highly over sexualised for a 14 year old she goes to parties, performs sexual acts with boys and does drugs which I'm sure MOST 14 year olds do not do. Her acting is rather annoying however I'm unsure if it was the way the director tried to portray her or just her annoying personality and the way she she comes across to the views. Her best friend Amy is the complete opposite she doesn't go to parties and is shy and quiet - however she does involve herself in one party with Megan at the beginning. Megan begins talking online to this boy who claims his name is Josh and gets Megan to go on webcam and show of her body a bit even though he tells her his webcam is "broken". This is where I got frustrated any 14 year old in their right mind would know there was something wrong as soon as this was said, it gets even more frustrating when she decides to meet up with this boy "Josh" and never returns. We then see a number of news reports and CCTV footage of where Megan gets kidnapped by a man in a van.Her friend Amy then decides contacting Josh using her computer as she knows he was the last person to see Megan. As you can imagine he begins to threaten her and stalking her and there is this one creepy scene where we see him in the background of one of Amy's video diary's. If it wasn't already obvious enough he then proceeds to kidnap Amy and keeps her in this underground dungeon.This is where the last 20 minutes begin of the "stomach churning" scenes people have felt sick over. There is two actual pictures of Megan shown where she is has her head and wrists in an guillotine like board with her mouth clamped open with a metal device kneeling in her underwear. We then see Amy chained to a wall in her underwear where "Josh" throws buckets of cold water over arm and makes her drink and eat on her hands and knees like a dog this is where he then proceeds to rape her. This did unsettle me slightly as all we are shown is Amy's head held again a table, tears running down her face being rocked back and fourth. He then tells Amy to get in a barrel. When she opens this we are shocked into seeing her best friend Megan's body in the barrel decomposing and Amy is forced in beside her. The last ten minutes of the film is "Josh" burying this barrel in a forest hearing only Amy's screams and pleading with the unknown man. Throughout the whole film we never get to see "Josh's" face or find out his real name. I'm unsure of what makes this film more unsettling perhaps the shock realisation of that we don't always know who we are talking to online and this can actually happen in real life if we are not careful enough, or the knowledge that it is based on seven different child abduction stories.

This may just be the worst movie I have ever seen. Extremely unrealistic depiction of the girls' lives. If Amy is supposed to be a shy 14 year old girl with obviously protective parents, how did they allow her to go to that party with all the junkies at the first place? Also, why wouldn't she tell someone that Megan was doing heroin? She seemed like a better friend than that. Another thing that bugged me was Lexie in Amy's video diary. She blames Amy for Megan's disappearance without a reason, and Amy doesn't seem to try and defend herself. Why on earth would they blame Amy anyway? This makes no sense. Even if it was well directed, it also lacks a decent plot. We have no understanding of the killer's motive, nor do we even watch enough gore for this to be considered at least gory. It was just a massive disappointment and a complete waste of time.

Megan is Missing is a movie that deserves any scorn that it gets. It has some truly terrible acting and some weird directing choices. It's not well-made horror; it's effective horror. Megan is Missing is about two best friends, Megan and Amy, who meet a guy online named Josh and eventually get abducted and go missing. A majority of the film is just set-up for the eventual abduction of the girls. You do get to see each girl's personalities, social lives and just everything about them. Megan is one of the most popular girls at school. She has a bunch of friends, goes out drinking, and blows random guys at parties. Amy is on the opposite end of the spectrum. She's neat, doesn't have many friends, and doesn't go out much. Watching the two go through their normal days throughout the first act makes the final act so much more disturbing. The film does slow down a bit whenever "Josh" comes into the picture, and there are these short scenes of newscasts that are almost unbearable to watch because it has the world's most aggravating news anchor. The last twenty minutes, however, becomes unbearable for a completely different reason. The ending changes Megan is Missing from a somewhat dull drama thriller into a truly harrowing experience. There's some imagery in there that will be hard to shake for days to come. This is honestly a terrible film, but when the horror is as brutal and unforgettable as this, it is still worth a watch if you can stomach the material.