X Moor (2014)
With their sights set on a £25,000 reward promoted by a local newspaper, American documentarians Georgia and Matt head to Exmoor in North Devon to film the fabled beast supposedly slinking through the remote terrain. Is the creature a leopard, a panther, a family pet crossbreed, an imaginary predator? Setting up a forest camp with an old acquaintance harbouring his own dark secrets, the trio fix 42 cameras to the trees and rocks, linked back to a computer nerve centre where nothing should go unnoticed as they take turns to night watch. But then they discover some putrefying body parts all neatly tied up… then some more. And before long they realise they are in the lair of a beast right enough, but certainly not one of the four-legged variety. For they have discovered a serial killer’s playground and are soon to become his most wanted prey.
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Memorable, crazy movie
best movie i've ever seen.
It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
X MOOR is one of those cheap digital horror flicks which seems to consist entirely of a bunch of annoying characters running around and screaming at each other. The screaming is incessant and irritating, and the characters are irritating in the extreme, without one likable part (or actor) in the whole movie. The setting is Exmoor, where a couple of researchers are looking for a big cat but find some disturbed individuals instead. I don't know about you, but I care nothing for these dull, greyed-out horrors with their attempts to make you jump, and this Northern Irish effort is as routine and uninteresting as the next.
it was okay. Personally, I thought it could use some more gore and maybe better actors but it went straight to TV so what can you expect?(not saying some gems dint go straight to TV but as a rule of thumb there like this.) but overall if your bored watch it....or don't i really don't care what you watch
This one happens to fall under the latter. Let me tell you why. OK, so first of all, this could have been a lot more entertaining. Not a bad premise. Not a bad story line or twist. The actors were decent too. The atmosphere is unbeatable as far as dark and depressing , what is more elusive and mysterious than the moors of England? OK so the reason why this movie drove me crazy? I have no idea what the writers were thinking when they wrote how some of these characters acted and what they did. I think they were trying to add suspense or tension, when it just seemed fake and really unbelievable. For instance , the relationship between the two male leads. That had to of course, hate each other because of this woman they would both die for. Yeah. That's another thing. Why do movies insist on this stupid, over played, exaggerated hero type love thing. For some unknown reason ( because to us, the audience , this woman is just another run of the mill, typical on all fronts woman.) but both men have such deep feelings for her they are " willing to protect her with my life" you know, I have lots of guy friends, I even have great brothers. One is even ex Special Forces. Not once , in my entire life have I ever had one of my friends or brothers need to tell people that they would protect me with their life , let alone actually feel that way. Twilight love stuff, like so teenage fairy tale. OK so this totally average female happens to know two men that are so deeply in love with her they both are willing to die for her. OK. And they hate each other of course, for no real reason. Anyways, moving on. They find a disturbing cache of dead bodies in the moor. OK. Here is where it gets really bothersome. Everyone freaks out and throws up. And that amazing woman? Acts like a total lame for the next half hour. Screaming. She suddenly decides she needs to run a mile screaming. Away from her friends. I get it. I've actually seen people react like that to stressful situations. But in this instant it was over dramatics big time and not realistic - she wasn't armed and it was dark and her only friends ? She ran away from them . Just don't see that happening - scared so you run away from the two guys who are willing to die for you and have guns out Into the dark woods . OK , so then , they get to the tent. Now they know some serial killer is out there. Of course she promptly starts to yell. About something meaningless and stupid. I'm just going to highlight some of this amazing woman's stupid acts. They see their friend get stabbed. They run. She sees her boyfriend on camera and the serial killer looks like he killed him before the camera shuts off. She runs out with a flare screaming for her injured boyfriend who couldn't run to her even if he didn't have a serial killer stomping on his head ( sprained ankle) of course the guy comes and shoots at her. OK another dumb thing? She finally gets to where she is pointing the gun at the serial killer and guess what? Doesn't shoot him. She decided to ask him what he did to her boyfriend. Who of course this guy doesn't know who Matt is. Real thoughtful. She needs to scream at him so much, that of course he gets away, but not before he stabs the poor victim that is alive. And really kills her. OK more dumb stuff. When she finally has the you know what's to kill him? Opps. Not him. Oh this movie. Gloria, your character ruined the movie. Nothing you did made sense. Nothing you did worked. She should have been killed first. I hate it when they just don't put thought into it . .
'X Moor' is about two documentary filmmakers in search of a giant cat - this is the perfect opportunity to save a few $$$ and go the found footage direction, but Luke Hyams decided to take the more expensive, slightly more difficult approach.. You know, he went ''old school.'' Kudos to him.The first half of the film is solid. Nice build up, tension, character development. But it's not long before we discover the cat isn't the main attraction. Yes, Luke decided to take the 'more is more' approach, and toss in a serial killer. I knew at this point the film was going to go downhill pretty quickly, since most directors cast the most pathetic actor they can find, to play their films villain - and, since we all know Luke Hyams is a 'more is more' kind of guy, I figured he'd manage to throw in the giant cat somewhere along the way, because, that's just what 'more is more' guys do. I was right one both accounts, but it doesn't really matter, since the entire second half of the film ends up being complete nonsense, anyway. Michael Myers couldn't have saved the final 40 minutes.The acting is passable, until Mark Bonnar (carried the first half) ends up meeting his maker (a pathetic end to a solid character.) Turning all attention to our lead actress - This ends up being a huge mistake, because we quickly discover that, well, she's awful. Every scene that she's in without her supporting men, is borderline amateur. The film is also fairly dark throughout, but never to the point you can't see what's going on.Random Ramblings of a Madman: Not since 'Treehouse' has a film switched from solid to bad, as quickly as 'X Moor.' 'The Jungle' already did the whole giant cat documentary thing, so I knew the upside of 'X Moor' was going to be pretty low to begin with, but I still would have preferred a killer cat to whatever the hell I just saw throughout the second half of the film. And why do you build up Mark Bonnar's character, just to kill him off in such a pathetic manner?Luke, check out 'House of the Devil' and 'The Tunnel.' Less is more, my friend.