Michael Boi tried to excuse this inane attempt at a movie by saying it was supposed to caution people about internet predators. This is just exploitation. A total waste of time. Who the hell calls internet video chat "webbing"?! Did the director really believe that's how teenagers talk? And supposedly he took the blowjob description "word-for-word" from interviewing a 13-year-old girl! I think the only thing he did remotely correct was to show me how to dispose of this DVD. Seal it in a plastic barrel with decayed human remains and then bury it in a shallow grave late at night. So glad they recorded every FaceTime message and their webcams were constantly recording whenever they used their computer. The "torture porn" picture that was "too disturbing" for a fetish site's webmaster could have easily been my last appointment at the orthodontist.

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.

Every self-respecting weird person who's looking to get disturbed has heard of Megan Is Missing. The only reason I sought out the film is because I'd read how so many people find it horrendously disturbing. If you hop on to the IMDb message boards (always a good place to find opinions by level-headed people) then you'll find a lot of posts by self- confessed horror movie addicts saying how they found the last twenty minutes of Megan Is Missing to be the most haunting thing they've ever seen in a horror film which is quite a big statement! I'm also one of those people who don't really find many films disturbing. The Human Centipede 2 didn't particularly bother me and I managed to watch Salo alone in the dark pretty comfortably (ish) so I'm always on the lookout for films that might actually give me sleepless nights.Megan Is Missing is atrocious. Let's get that out the way first, it is absolutely embarrassingly bad. As soon as it started my eyes widened in terror at the beyond horrendous acting from the two main characters in the film, Megan and Amy. Both of them can't act for a toffee apple and even that's being kind. Megan's wooden bedpost is probably the best actor in the whole film and steals the show. Although, let's face it there really isn't much of a show to steal. It presents itself as a true story, but this is impossible to take seriously thanks to the stilted acting and forced chemistry between Megan and Amy.As soon as the film starts we're treated to dialogue from Amy which goes something like, "We're filming on my expensive new video camera, Daddy loves me." To which Megan replies, "My Daddy loves me too, slut" and we get a painfully wooden, "Bitch!" Back from Amy. Such Shakespearean dialogue continues throughout the film and it's probably supposed to sound like natural 14 year-old girl banter, but the actors deliver their lines like their reading them from the cameraman holding up a cardboard sign. It's just a total cringe-fest and the characters couldn't get any more stereotypical or two dimensional if they tried. We've got Megan the confident, popular school bike and Amy the unpopular, angelic prude.There is an attempt to build up characters but it just ends up resulting in ridiculous clichés. At one point I even predicted in my head exactly what Megan was going to say as she breaks down awkwardly on camera about her dysfunctional upbringing. We also get treated to a needlessly long monologue from Megan about her first sexual experience which just ends up sounding like dialogue from a porn film. I also liked the director's idea of a teen house party complete with torch lights and girls randomly jumping up and down going "woo!"It's a found footage film so it's essential for it to have a realistic atmosphere, which it fails at miserably. It does make for unintentionally hilarious viewing though. It's about a girl talking to a randomer over the Internet and ending up missing after going to meet him (surprise, surprise) but the film is extremely heavy-handed with these themes. It almost feels like a student film at times, especially when they try to create news footage. I actually laughed out loud at one point where they do a re-construction of the kidnapping. I also loved the part where the newsreader teases the next story about a cocker spaniel driving a car through a shop window! I'm not kidding, the filmmakers should've made a film based on that idea.Basically, the first hour of Megan Is Missing is an hilarious example of how not to make a film. But then the next 20 minutes arrive and everything changes. It's difficult to talk about the last 20 minutes without giving away big plot twists, but I can say that it did actually disturb me. The acting gets a little more convincing (big stress on 'little') and the film becomes relentlessly terrifying. The unintentional funniness disappears and we're presented with a genuinely chilling atmosphere of horror and a sobering sense of realism. Some people say that it's like some sort of indulgent fetish thing for the director but I think it's actually done in a way that's not too exploitative or gratuitous. It's actually a well-made bit of harrowing horror.So, Megan Is Missing is a film of two halves and both halves are horrendous for different reasons. The first three quarters have no redeeming qualities, whereas the last quarter has the power to genuinely shock and unsettle without over-stepping the mark or trying to be nasty for the sake of it. It's a difficult film to recommend, but if you know what you're getting in to and are a hardened horror fan then it's definitely worth one watch. Most of it is total rubbish but in the end it presented some truly frightening ideas which did haunt me and will probably continue to haunt me for some time. So that has got to be worth something, hasn't it?

The negative reviews are a bit harsh, the film isn't that great no and the only real suspense is in the last 20 minutes but it does get a message across So the film is based around 14 year old Megan a straight A student but has family problems at home and hides behind a life of hard partying, drug use and promiscuous sex, her best friend is Amy a social misfit deemed a fat loser at school but they have a inseparable bond. When another friend tells Megan to speak to this new online guy called Josh she agrees, typically his web cam is broken. Days after she agrees to meet him and is never seen again. Amy being a good friend is worried and knows it has something to do with Josh and has now put her self in the same danger.Some may see it as a tad extreme but unfortunately this does happen. What people are missing is their bond, these 2 girls are so different but have a special connection. Megan being popular and liked is a social acceptance for Amy, Whilst Amy's care is what Megan doesn't have but there both equally naive.