The Wicksboro Incident (2003)

One of my all time favorites.

Fantastic!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I had absolutely no clue whatsoever what to expect before watching The Wicksboro Incident. I didn't read anything about it so I started watching it without being influenced by reviews or anything. The first half hour I was wondering if it was a documentary or a fictional movie. You could say that that is not bad because the acting was believable. It's only when the old dude started searching the shelter in the desert with a coat hanger that I was for 100% sure it was just a fictional movie. From that point on it got way less interesting, with some stupid turns in the story. Nothing much believable anymore, and so also more boring. I have to admit that there was a bit of suspense as well but the story was just not strong enough to make it good. And then the handy-cam filming, it will always be something I dislike. I don't get why they continue making movies like that because it really doesn't bring anything more besides being annoying.

Anytime you watch a movie like this, you have either seriously forgive its flaws, in this case an ultra low budget and some serious borrowing from Blair Witch Project, and suspend your disbelief, or you just simply pick it apart. In this case, I chose the former and really enjoyed it. It did have some serious flaws and you have to REALLY give yourself over to the whole "conspiracy theory" ideology to make the movie work. In its favor it has great pacing and, unlike some commenter, the second act was fairly strong with a 100-yard dash like pace and great tension build up.Overall, though, this movie did keep me on edge and my heart rate accelerated. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to people who enjoy the US Government/Alien conspiracy genre.

i just seemed under the impression that this is a true story...Lloyd in this film is either telling the truth or hes a better actor than I've ever seen....what troubles me is the scene that Lloyd is killed...what hit him in the head?......the other issue that troubles me is when they sell the camry....not many people i know carry their car title with them to be able to make a fast exchange like that...the device isn't all up to par either...I'm sure many know more than me on the subject but why the flashing leds in the clear bubble other than for looks?....so is this just a movie or is it really a documentary? if anyone has any thoughts on this please comment here or preferably email me at the address provided...I'm one of those that have to know the truth and don't trust our government with anything lol.

This is a pseudo-documentary, that is a movie designed to look like a documentary. It's hard not to compare it to the Blair Witch Project (since they borrowed the style from it), but it probably owes more to John Carpenter's "They Live", in terms of plot than anything else.Basically it starts off telling the tale of a guy who claim to have been a scientist in the 1950s. It seems he worked on an early version of the microwave oven, but for reasons unknown, he and his fellow scientists played with it so it would pick up brain waves. And they noticed that they would occasionally get strange readings.And of course, the only obvious conclusion they could jump to is that they were actually aliens, not people, causing the strange readings.So he claims that he and his scientist buddies were transferred to a small town in Texas (Wicksboro). Then everyone mysteriously vanished. And he fled and changed his name. But 40 years later he came forward. But the only people who were interested were these 2 guys, would be film makers.So these 2 indie filmmakers start investigating his claims. Which basically consists of just going to the library, then going to Texas on a road-trip to actually look for the town. They find it, but run into the aliens (in human guise, of course) and the rest of the movie (the bulk of it) is fleeing from them.Part of the trouble with it is that it's just not particularly creepy. It would have been a lot better to have borrowed some stuff from actual UFO folklore, rather than just a re-tread of "They Live". There's no shortage of things they could have borrowed from.There should have been far more on the actual investigation, I think. Just going to a library wasn't much.I also think the premise is pretty silly. I mean, I am into UFOs and often go to talks and seminars by strange people who give lectures and have slide shows about supposedly hidden bases and conspiracies and stuff. If there was one that was real, no would could tell the difference from the dozens of other supposedly real conspiracies. Heck, Netflix has a whole section on supposedly real alien conspiracies.Lastly, it's supposed to be a documentary, but clearly it's a finished one. It's got lots of stuff that would have been put in last. Like dramatic music while the guy is running around in the dark. Or in the ending, it briefly cuts to a still photo of a guy earlier in a film, who the guy at the end mentions. (Which also was a great way to destroy any tension that was building up.) Stuff like that generally gets done last in a movie. Even if it was supposed to be added just after the footage was shot, I don't see how the cut away to the still photo could have been added at the end, plausibly. So it just makes little sense.All in all, a really pointless movie. Would have been better if it was just a Blair Witch rip off. Though the acting is somewhat better.