The premise: A couple of YouTubers making fake monster videos put out an ad to film and interview any REAL monsters in the area, without expecting to get exactly that. (The trailer gives all this away, so I'm not spoiling anything.)The premise is great, but there really isn't much of a story. I guess that's the way a lot of found footage movies are if they're done well - they feel spontaneous. This didn't. It felt scripted.The effects are great, and the performances of the people being interviewed are good, in my opinion. But the interviewing team's performances are terrible. A lot of overacting. And who ever heard of a cameraperson that won't shut up? Things get better as the movie progresses, but the beginning is very annoying. I think his character was supposed to be some sort of comic relief?The story was periodically derailed by unnecessary drama among the crew - which they filmed and included in their "monster documentary" for some unknown reason.The atmospheric sound effects and music were good, but WAY too heavy-handed and in some cases, just unnecessary.Loved the special effects and makeup! They were so good that I didn't understand why they pulled the camera away from the action or lit things so you could barely see them. There were enough close ups to see that they didn't need to.The ending caught me by surprise only because it seemed so inconsistent with the rest of the movie. It didn't make sense and felt like a last minute idea. If the rest of the movie would have supported the ending better, I think I may have liked the whole thing a lot more.If you watch the first 10 minutes or so, then skip to about a quarter of the way in, you might have a better experience. If I ever watch this again, that's what I plan to do.It's worth a watch, but this is too flawed to be called "good." It's just "okay." I'm being generous in giving it 6/10.

The premise of going out there finding real monsters is an interesting idea and it could have developed into a solid horror movie but alas the scriptwriters ran out of "ideas" (other that when can we cash the check) after the basic premise. The rest of the story is just meh.. you can watch it to the end or you can grab a nap. It really doesn't matter.

Classic example of a good movie gone bad because it had too much human ego involved. The writer wanted more out of this picture than it could give. He wanted a character study , a romance and a drama and found footage horror .. if that sounds like too much, imagine watching it. I was actually bummed because this could have been so good, if they had just stuck to found footage horror. It has great effects and a great plot. The actors are all talented. The production was OK too. The camera work was awful- they needed to clean that up , have it be more straight forward. But for what they were going for - found footage, this could have been so much better. Instead of doing what everyone else does at the end, have everyone scream at the top of their lungs and run around like chicken with their heads cut off. I mean this got so chaotic and bad at the end, the story just instantly evaporated and seriously all you hear for the last twenty minutes is incoherent yelling and shaky is a kind word for what the camera did. The camera work is so chaotic that it is pointless trying to watch it. They could have made such big differences if they had just allowed some actual attacks and gore to be filmed. It would have upped the horror really nicely. Again, a great plot gone bad. Which is such a shame. The end just seems like they ran out of money and got really lazy ... Where else it went wrong? In all the lame sub plots between characters , and as a consequence the characters themselves. I mean maybe with a better script they could have pulled it off. But the end result here is caricatures of identities. We have the junkie who hates himself for getting high ( even though that doesn't happen in real life. If junkies didn't suffer from major denial issue they wouldn't be junkies.) we have the bitchy ex girlfriend who everyone wants to sleep with except she is really not that attractive to warrant the attention . In real life, this girl would be begging for her ex back. We have the Dick jock who is alpha male ( they don't make movies ) and last but definitely the worst of all is the token black guy who talks like super urban kid and is named Jamel ( the kind of black guy that would never hang out with a bunch of white people and in fact, doesn't even exist to hang out with black people) So the movie was ruined by all the useless and frankly irritating character studies and dynamics of their lame relationships and stereo typical personalities. Guys- you should have just made a horror film. Alluded to the issues and kept it subtle and sharp. Also obviously you're racist . Would have helped immensely if the writer actually knew just one black man.

Great movie I really enjoyed this one even though the rating is quite low if your a fan of paranormal activity and Blair witch type of movies then you will love this very creepy at times and keeps you on the edge of your seat , great acting and directing looking forward to seeing more movies like this horror fans will have a blast watching this one it's great fun and scary at the same time.