I rented this on VHX.com last night I call this sci fi because I have a very difficult time swallowing the stories of these old strangers.I do appreciate Montauk Chronicles for what it is though: a fine piece of science fiction film making.The movie totally works for me, even if I think these guys are all having a psychosis of their paranoia or lying through their ever loving teeth.The director didn't demand that we should trust or even believe these guys at all and composed this whole thing in such a way that was more than pleasing to my eyes and ears. The interviews were great.I'm a fan and I love the style of it all.I'm looking forward to The Dark Files follow up coming on the History Channel next month.W.L.

I love this movie, The visuals, The sound, the effects. Really weird and different, but awesome. We've witnessed a large amount of films that cover the "shadow base" subject matter as well as mind control topics. This subject was always popular, but for some reason it's in about everything lately...especially horror films.Montauk Chronicles is the epitome of that as it's covered by the filmmaker (Christopher P. Garetano) in ways that set it apart from anything else on similar topics. It's also allegedly true. So it begins with a mysterious masked character (JAMES) who tells the story of his hijacked youth and being wrangled by members of his grade school faculty to part of an evil mind control project beneath the Montauk Air Force Base. It's followed by a solid intro, with fabulous photography, and soon brings us to the three main storytellers. Now in their old age, the subjects all tell their individual tales with beautifully rendered flashback sequences in between. Some of the scenes were as creepy as any euro horror movie from the 1970's I don't want to give too much away but it continues through the entire tale and ends once again with the mysterious masked man.I didn't get the vibe that it was staged, so judge for yourself. Either way I enjoyed the hell out of it.It also truly opened my mind to what happened there. The subjects seemed truthful enough. Don't miss this movie. Shut the lights, open your mind....-Vick

A must see documentary on the Mk Ultra mind programming in Montauk. It's not asking your opinion, just watch it and learn from it. Well filmed and well put together. So glad I found it. True terror that is mind expanding and enlightening. A movie for the higher mind that shows what the US government got up to in the 70's onward.

tl;dr Wanted to love it, struggled to finish it.The good: For an indie production, it was well shot, with good audio. It is, in theory, a documentary about the different claims regarding the various "Montauk projects" discussed in paranormal media.. It interviews several notable personalities involved in the body of Montauk lore, without derision, or apparent positive bias. It wasn't actually the 4 hours I thought I had been watching it. The less good: Finding a well executed documentary on any fringe topic, is like finding a unicorn, washing your car for you. Those that achieve any degree of success as a cohesive and engaging narrative provide a context for the different interviews, use recreation to support that, and give you a good story. I was hoping for a good overview of all of the extraordinary claims about secret projects that crossed the border into science fiction at Montauk from the last 6 decades. You can either believe all of the tales told about Montauk in the alternative literature, or treat them with complete skepticism. The middle ground as a viewer is to treat it as folktales. I wasn't expecting Montauk Chronicles to prove anything to me. I was expecting to leave it with a decent grasp of the stories related to it, and a sense of how the subjects giving interviews had contributed to its lore. That scope could have been sweeping, or parochial. I had heard or seen interviews with the main three subjects, and have a passing familiarity with tales related to Camp Hero that are a staple of what I'll call the genre. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have had the slightest clue as to why I should care about their stories, and what those stories really were. I find it tragic honestly. Regardless of your opinion of anyone's authenticity Bielek, Nichols, and Swerdlow, have been contributing to Montauk lore for decades, and what ended up on screen offers scant satisfaction. Those guys won't be around forever, and once they're gone they will become part of the great continuum of rehashed references in future works, and it will become increasingly difficult to know those stories in their words. Aside from that, a lot of beach scenes, a lot of dash cam, and recreations that didn't help me understand anything. And they were interminable.I have no issue with recreation, or a measure of theatrical license, these were just un-needed. For aggressive skeptics, if it had been a better production, you could hate it more, for better reasons. For true believers who won't criticise anything in paranormal media ever, I am obviously a disinformation agent, and my review should be discarded.