The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
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Just what I expected
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
The acting in this movie is really good.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
I found this and "Always Watching" while browsing, and both seemed like similar found footage movies, and based on reviews watch "Always Watching" first- in short - this was much better. Usually if I fall asleep during a movie, it doesn't get revisited, and I was struggling to stay awake when I put this on, but it seemed interesting so I actually put it back on the next day. The movie was technically sound (hate when the sound and video are crappy), and kept me guessing and on edge. There were a number of instances where the movie could've gone in more than one direction, and it legitimately had me guessing as to who was in on what. For me, the true answer to how good a movie is (especially Netflix or Prime freebies) is "would I watch it knowing what I know after watching it?", and yes, I would definitely thought this was worth the time and would recommend it. Don't waste your time with "Always Watching". That's one I would not watch after knowing what I know now.
Three young adult go out for an adventure at Chase's ( Morgan Krantz) parent's mountain home. He films everything as he takes Amanda (Johanna Braddy) and Kim (Lili Mirojnick) with him. He hopes to score with Amanda while Kim is more level headed.The kids become missing and a VHS tape was found and is being viewed by the police. We have the ground cam, the jerking cam, the running cam, and "what was that" scene after scene. The kids running around in the woods with the camera light shining brightly talking low so no one can hear them was inane and annoying.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
THE LEVENGER TAPES is yet another BLAIR WITCH rip-off with no sense or style of its own. The whole film is a pointless bore, treading water from beginning to end while offering nothing in the way of pay-offs or incident. The protagonists are annoying characters, all of them, and certainly folk who you won't want to spend an hour of your life in the company of. The dialogue is poor which makes me suspect that most of it was ad-libbed. Little happens until the climax, by which time it's all too late, and the slow pace makes it a difficult film to sit through.
About the millionth "found footage" film about who knows? This big old turd gives you characters who have the personalities of a fence post and the screen presence of a turnip. I did not care for ANY of them. In fact, it would have been fine with me if the guy would have died immediately, he was so obnoxious.After stealing liquor from a store, having an accident with another vehicle (I think...), and going to someone's cabin (natch), the drunk guy decides he has to apologize to the guy whose car he side- swiped. And for those of us who have been around drunks, he's going to apologize come hell or high water. Thus the three leave the comfortable confines of the cabin to run around in the dark, magically disappearing and then reappearing--never remembering what happened. The entire "plot" (and I use that word here very lightly) made no sense. Most of film involved two girls screaming at god knows what and supposedly the "ghost" of a little girl who is all grown up now. Rated R and not recommended.