There is a genre of film that divides the cinema-going public and critics like, perhaps, no other. That genre is known as ‘found-footage’. Basically, each of these films places the viewer in the centre of the action, with the cameraman (or woman) being one of the characters in the film, rather than a dispassionate observer.

Before we continue, I'll include a list of the movies looked at here. You can click on one of them to jump to that part of the article. As new films come to light, I'll add to this list:

Usually, but not always, ‘found-footage’ films are a sub-section of the horror genre. Notable exceptions to this rule are Zero Day, The Poughkeepsie Tapes and Cloverfield. Another rule is that the film-makers have disappeared or died, leaving behind the ‘found-footage’.

They are often made on a very small budget and are as far from a Hollywood blockbuster as you can get. Quite often, though, they break box-office records and/or garner huge cult followings.

Now, I cannot claim to have seen every ‘found-footage’ film and I’m sure that there are many, many not on this list that the reader will recommend I see.

The genre was introduced to me, probably the same way as many of you reading this, by The Blair Witch Project, way back in 1999. The movie was a true phenomenon and made well over two-hundred million dollars at the box office. Not bad when it’s shooting budget was no more that twenty-five thousand dollars (the final budget, after being picked up by Artisan Entertainment for distribution, rose to around half a million dollars, due to an extensive and revolutionary PR campaign).

The story is a simple one: A group of film students go out into the woods of Maryland to make a documentary about a legendary witch, allegedly responsible for numerous deaths many years earlier. They get lost and all manner of creepy stuff happens. They find bizarre artefacts in the woods, hear terrifying noises and end up running for their lives.

You never see anything and that is the secret of the film’s success. The viewer’s imagination fills in the blanks and, supported by a terrific cast, it is a tour-de-force of the genre and the blueprint for all to follow.

A sequel, Blair Witch 2: The Book of Shadows followed. It was more of a traditional horror movie, but still used the ‘found-footage’ premise at its core. It opened to generally hostile reviews, but I enjoyed it and thought it a worthy sequel that didn’t just try to emulate the original.

However, Blair Witch wasn’t the first ‘found-footage’ film. Neither was The Last Broadcast, which was released in 1998.

The Last Broadcast was similar to Blair Witch in many ways, but it was a very different movie. It was slightly more complex, in that the central story revolves around a documentary film-maker who is investigating the disappearance of another film crew who went out into the woods, searching for the fabled Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

The film has a surprising twist at the end and leaps from a first-person, ‘found-footage’ perspective to one in the third person. The transition was jarring for me and, while not ruining the film, instantly told me that this was ‘only a movie’.

The Last Broadcast, for its few faults, though, is well worth viewing.

I said a little earlier that the two films above weren’t the earliest examples of ‘found-footage’ film-making. The earliest example of which I am aware (and I’m sure I’ll be corrected here, so forgive me!) is the 1980 film, Cannibal Holocaust. Was that a shiver of trepidation I just felt?

Yep, that film! Now, I have to admit that I only saw this film once, many years ago. I have recently acquired a copy on DVD, but I haven’t had the nerve to watch it again. I know I should, if only for the purposes of this article, but my memories of the film are so wrought with tension, that I can’t bring myself to watch it again. I am also sure that when I do watch it again, I’ll probably ask myself what the fuss was about!

Anyway, the story of Cannibal Holocaust follows a journalist piecing together footage from a film crew which disappeared in South America. The film switches from third person to first person as we view the footage. We see the missing crew deliberately setting fire to a village and raping a young girl. The resultant actions of the natives are brutal and all captured on camera.

The action was so visceral that the film-makers were accused of producing a snuff movie, i.e. the deaths were real. Obviously that wasn’t so, but the sheer reality of the footage is one of the reasons I have balked at viewing the film again. As I said, though, I bet it’s not as bad as I remember. Or is it? Let me know.

Leaping forward to 1998, a little, made-for-TV movie emerged, entitled, Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape (sometimes called Incident in Lake County). This is one of my favourite films of the genre (probably due to my interest in UFOs) and it is a film that often has UFO message boards asking if it is real. Of course it isn’t real and several of the actors in the film have appeared in other movies and TV shows.

Alien Abduction tells the story of the McPherson family and what happened to them one Thanksgiving night. The men of the family investigate a power cut and stumble across a landed UFO and several aliens. The events are captured on the family camcorder by the youngest son, teenaged Tommy.

As the night progresses, the family begins to fragment as the aliens try to get at them barricaded inside the house. It’s a terrifically well-made film, in my opinion, and you see just enough of the aliens to pique your interest and go ‘oooh’.

Inspired by the terrible Columbine Massacre and with a release delayed by the tragic events of 9/11, Zero Day used the video diary concept as we follow two American teenagers as they plan an assault on their high school.

It is a chilling movie and the actors portraying Andre and Cal are terrific. We see how they acquire their weapons, how they make pipe bombs (which they don’t use in the end) and how friends begin regarding them as ‘strange’ as Zero Day approaches. The stomach-churning attack on the school is viewed through the building’s CCTV system and we hear a police dispatcher trying to get through to the boys.

Zero Day is a very disturbing movie, but worth watching as an object lesson about teenage angst, how some people can become obsessed with a single goal and the dehumanisation of society.

In 2005, Japan ventured into the ‘found-footage’ genre with the release of Noroi: The Curse. Taking a slightly different tack, The Curse is presented as a completed documentary by a paranormal researcher who disappeared shortly after completing his film. It is this factor (the disappearance of the film-maker) that places The Curse in the ‘found-footage’ field, rather than it being classed as a ‘mockumentary’, along the lines of Special Bulletin (1983), a terrific TV movie that uses the idiom of live news broadcasts, Ghostwatch (1992), which is based on a live TV investigation into the paranormal, or even the hilarious ‘rockumentary’, Spinal Tap (1984).

The Curse, as mentioned, is presented as a documentary film with the investigation of spooky occurrences around a mystery woman and her young ‘son’. As his list of interviewees begins to dwindle, due to accidental deaths, murders, suicides or disappearances, the reporter finds himself face-to-face with a demonic entity.

The Curse is a terrific movie and the sense of foreboding that permeates the film, particularly towards the climax, really knots your stomach.

The next film in the list was released in 2006, but I only saw it a few days ago. The Zombie Diaries is a British film spawned out of the bird flu worries of the last few years.

A mystery virus is spreading across England, turning people into zombies. We see the action from the viewpoints of three groups of survivors. One is a documentary film crew investigating the virus outbreak. Another is a trio just trying to survive and stay ahead of the shuffling, zombie hordes. The last is a group, holed up at a farm.

Eventually, the fates of these three groups become intertwined in an unexpected (for me anyway) and slightly shocking ending.

While not the best of the genre, Zombie Diaries is worth watching and was successful enough for a sequel to be in the works. I look forward to that.

Released a year or so later was the first foray into ‘found-footage’ by a ‘big director’. George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead continued his apocalyptic saga of a world overrun by zombies.

We follow a group of people who, when the outbreak begins, are making a low-budget horror film. They escape to a friend’s house and, as usual, it all goes pear-shaped (or zombie-shaped).

I’m a big fan of Romero’s zombie films and I enjoyed his foray into the ‘found-footage’ genre. Some of the characters from Diary of the Dead would reappear in his next film, Survival of the Dead.

Next comes one of my all-time favourite movies. [REC] is a Spanish film, released in 2007. Well, what can I say? This film (and its sequel, which we will come to later) has to be seen to be believed.

A young television presenter and her cameraman are filming for a late-night TV show at a Barcelona fire station. The firemen get a routine call and the film crew go with them to an old apartment building. Then all hell breaks loose – literally (slight spoiler for the sequel there… sorry!).

The routine call about an elderly woman who seems to be having problems while locked inside her flat, turns into a desperate fight for survival as a mystery virus spreads through the tenants. At first appearing like rabies, it is soon clear that this is something quite different and that the infected don’t stay dead.

The building is completely quarantined by the authorities and any attempts to escape are met with swift and deadly fire from rooftop snipers. The finale is an absolutely terrifying ordeal and an example of ‘how did they do that?’ make-up effects.

Seriously, watch this film now.

Curiously, the next film in the list was made by the team who would go on to give us the American remake of [REC], but more about that in a little while. The film in question is The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2008).

The Poughkeepsie Tapes centres around a string of abductions and murders by an unknown serial killer who films his crimes on videotape. Several of these tapes were found by police and what we are seeing are those tapes. We see the killer cruising around, choosing his victims and then the sadistic nature (both physical and psychological) of his crimes against them.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes had a very limited release and, as yet, is not available on DVD. Despite hardly anybody knowing about it, the film obviously caught the eye of Sony Pictures executives, who wanted John Erick Dowdle and his brother, Drew, to remake [REC]. This they did and the result was Quarantine.

Quarantine is almost a direct copy of [REC], only in English. There are some differences, but these are minor. Obviously, the story is the same as the original and the climax is identical, if less startling. That said, it is a good film and worth your time if watching a film with subtitles is not your thing.

Okay, what would a ‘found-footage’ film be like if a big Hollywood studio threw millions of dollars at it? The answer is Cloverfield.

Up to now, this genre has been made for peanuts and the special effects were adequate, if there were any at all. Cloverfield, released in 2008, is different. And good. In fact, it’s almost up there with [REC] in my list of favourites.

When a huge monster arrives in Manhattan, we see everything through a single video camera in the possession of a group of twenty-something party-goers. Imagine standing underneath a raging beast that is hundreds of feet tall as the army unleashes hell in its direction and you’ll get an idea what Cloverfield is like.

The story is about the group trying to find their friend, who is trapped in her apartment building, which has been knocked over by the monster. As they make their way across New York, they encounter not only the huge beast, but the smaller parasites it spawns.

Finally, the authorities declare Manhattan lost and prepare to destroy the entire island. Only the whisper at the end of the credits hints at a sequel: “It’s still alive.” Ooooooooh!

Reverting all the way back in budget, but wiping the floor with Cloverfield in terms of box office receipts, was Paranormal Activity.

Originally made in 2007 and released to festivals, the film caught the eye of Steven Spielberg, who suggested a new ending and the release in 2009 took the world by storm. An original budget of fifteen thousand dollars saw box office returns of almost two-hundred million dollars, making it one of the most profitable films of all time.

Paranormal Activity is based in the home of Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston (the actors using their real names). There have been strange things going on, so Micah purchases a video camera in the hope of capturing the spooky happenings on tape. Beginning slowly, with footsteps and the occasional bang or slowly swinging door, the film picks up speed until the ferocious ending, setting the scene for the sequel, which would appear in late 2010.

Paranormal Activity is one of those films that makes you wish you’d thought of it first. It has become a genuine franchise, with the aforementioned sequel (which is part prequel) and another sequel due out in late 2011. Another spin-off, Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night is to be released on DVD in February, 2011.

Not to be outdone, those darlings of the ‘mockbuster’, The Asylum, released Paranormal Entity in late 2009.

An American family are frightened by spooky goings-on in their house, after the death of the father. The son, Thomas, sets up video cameras around the house (something echoed in Paranormal Activity 2) and we see what goes on when the lights are out.

We hear banging and the usual stuff, including disembodied breathing and objects moving, but the best part is the finding of ashy footprints on the ceiling. As is usual with this genre, the ending is not happy.

The Asylum are famous for making low-budget rip-offs of blockbuster films, but Paranormal Entity is, by far, their best film. It doesn’t try to outdo the big boys. It simply does the same and it almost does it just as well.

Remember when I said I was interested in UFOs earlier? Well, in 2009, a film came around that was right up my alley. The Fourth Kind is something of a hybrid. It uses ‘found-footage’, but mixes it with dramatic recreations and traditional scenes to create a strangely haunting film. Also, the main character hasn’t died or disappeared, so it might be classed as a mockumentary, rather than ‘found-footage’.

Allegedly based on a true story (it isn’t), the film focuses on Doctor Abigail Tyler, a psychiatrist living in Nome, Alaska. Several of her patients begin suffering from strange dreams, all very similar, and she suspects that there is a link.

It turns out that extra-terrestrials are visiting these people and sometimes abducting them. Occasionally, they never return.

There are some great scenes, particularly the hypnosis sections and the police camera footage of a briefly-glimpsed UFO, and the usage of the ancient Sumerian language is both inspired and somewhat creepy when the translations are revealed.

The Fourth Kind wasn’t to everybody’s taste, but those with an interest in the subject of UFOs and alien abduction generally looked favourable on the film.

Released in late 2009, [REC]² continued the events seen in the original, the events taking place in the same apartment building. Fifteen minutes after the first movie ends, a SWAT team is sent in to survey the situation. They are joined by a ‘doctor’, who later turns out to be something else entirely. At the same time, a trio of youths sneak into the building through the sewer system.

Using the helmet cameras of the SWAT team members and the hand-held camcorder of the youths, we discover that this is not a simple virus that has infected the tenants, but something much more terrifying. The producers have amped up the action and there are numerous ‘jump-out-of-your-seat’ moments, while still retaining that [REC] feel. Apparently, a third film is in the works and, after seeing this film, I can’t wait to see what happens next!

Finally, we come to Paranormal Activity 2. At three million dollars, the budget for this was, by no means large, but it dwarfed that of the original. The film acts, at first, as a prequel to the first film and then the timelines overlap.

Kristi Rey is the sister of Katie Featherston. She lives with her husband, Dan, their baby, Hunter, and Dan’s teenage daughter, Ali. After an apparent break-in (where nothing is stolen, but the house is trashed), Dan gets security cameras fitted. We see the film through the eyes of these cameras and the video camera the family use to document Hunter’s early days.

As with the original, things start out slowly – knocks, footsteps, the dog growling at nothing. Things start to get dangerous when a fire inexplicably starts and Ali is locked out of the house while babysitting. Things come to a head when Kristi is seemingly possessed, but all ends well. Then the timeline with the first film overlaps and Katie turns up…

It’s a good sequel with decent acting and some nice effects, such as the dark shape emerging from the cellar door. A third sequel is due out in late 2011 and it will be nice to see what the writers have in mind.

So, there you have it, the ‘found-footage’ phenomenon in a nutshell. If you know of any other gems of the genre, please let me know (mercuryrapids@hotmail.co.uk) and I’ll see if I can get hold of them and add them to this list. I will add my thoughts about Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night, when I get my copy at the end of February, 2011. I have also just pre-ordered a copy of Paranormal Entity 2 and I will update this page once I have given that film a viewing.

If I can gather the nerve to watch Cannibal Holocaust again, I’ll update this article with my thoughts….. if….

** UPDATE **

I have just had a real treat! I stumbled across a Norwegian movie called The Troll Hunter. This is a truly wonderful film. A trio of university film students venture out into the Norwegian wilderness in an attempt to catch a bear poacher on camera. It turns out that this poacher is, in fact, a top secret troll hunter in the employ of the government. He decides to let the students tag along and what follows is a terrific adventure as they encounter various types of troll. The special effects are magnificent and I can’t recommend this film highly enough.

** UPDATE **
(17^th February, 2011)

I am a complete idiot. I have left out one of the most recent offerings in the 'found-footage' genre. That is, of course, The Last Exorcism. Shot with a budget of a little under $2 million, The Last Exorcism went on to gross over $64 million worldwide.

It is the story of Cotton Marcus, an evangelical minister who becomes disillusioned with his 'job' of performing exorcisms. He decides to allow a documentary film crew accompany him to his last exorcism, where he will show all the 'tricks of the trade', proving that he is a fraud. Travelling to a small town, Marcus performs a fake exorcism on a teenage girl from a deeply religious family and they leave to a nearby motel.

The girl turns up at the motel and things start to go very wrong...

The Last Exorcism is a well-made film with some great moments. The poster is very misleading, though, and the ending is not great. While the style of the film is more 'mockumentary' than 'found-footage', the fact that (and this isn't really a spoiler) the film-makers all end up dead plants it more in the 'found-footage' oeuvre.

** UPDATE **
(18^th February, 2011)

If my head wasn't fastened on, I'd lose it. It's true. I really need to get some sort of cataloguing system for my DVD collection. I was perusing through my collection yesterday and came across two more 'found-footage' gems. Well, 'gems' might be pushing it a bit. How could I forget these two films? Well, one, they're not exactly brilliant, and, two, I'm an idiot (as mentioned earlier).

The first film is called 909 Experiment. I couldn't find a listing for this film in either Wikipedia or iMDB, but it is regarded by many as 'the first Paranormal Activity'. There are many similarities, but 909 Experiment was released almost a decade before Oren Peli's box-office smash.

The story centres on two university researchers, who are paid to spend several nights in an alleged haunted house. They carry a video camera and numerous CCTV cameras are dotted around. At first, everything seems calm, then they start hearing strange banging, taps are turned on mysteriously and the CCTV cameras pick up objects being moved by invisible hands.

It's not a great film, by any stretch of the imagination, but it is interesting and keeps you watching, despite the uneven acting.

The second film I dug out of my archive is called Chronicles of an Exorcism. Released in 2008, the film tells the story of a pair of film-makers, who are requested by the Church to document the exorcism of a young woman in a remote shack.

As I started watching this, I had my doubts and I even wondered if I had stumbled across a weird porn film! That was not to be, however, and what we have is a reasonably effective chiller with some good moments and scenes of possession. In some ways, it is more satisfying than the much more successful The Last Exorcism, which was more drama than supernatural horror. It's ultra-low budget is all too apparent, however, but the producers do well with what they have, particularly in the possession scenes.

** UPDATE **
(21^st February, 2011)

My DVD of Paranormal Entity 2 arrived today. I was intrigued to find out that the movie also goes by the name of 8213: Gacy House and it is that title that appears on iMDB and Wikipedia) Once again produced by The Asylum (listed at the end of the film as The Global Asylum), the film follows a team of seven paranormal investigators who are spending the night in the house built on the site of the former residence of serial killer, John Wayne Gacy. There are three women and four men and things begin happening almost immediately.

While I enjoyed the film (as I do 99.9% of 'found-footage' movies), Paranormal Entity 2 doesn't work quite as well as others in the genre, such as the first film and the two Paranormal Activity films. Mostly, I think, this is down to the cast. We don't really get the chance to empathise with any of them and they are a bit two-dimensional. Almost from the start, they are arguing with one another and shouting all the time. There is a psychic with the team and her only reason for being in the film, it seems, is to show off her boobs!

That said, there are some good, creepy moments in the film, with shadows moving about, a good sequence with a thermal imaging camera and some decent sound effects all adding to the brooding atmosphere. As it can be bought for peanuts from places like Amazon, it's well worth taking a look at.

** UPDATE **
(22^nd February, 2011)

A new 'found-footage' movie is due to be released on 22nd April, 2011. It is called Apollo 18 and centres around a mission to the Moon (the actual moon-landing missions finished at Apollo 17) and the discovery of aggressive aliens. I'm looking forward to this one, particularly because I wrote a couple of articles about the alleged Apollo 20 mission. Those articles can be found here and here.

In the meantime, Apollo 18 has a trailer, which can be viewed below:

** UPDATE **
(11^th March, 2011)

The Asylum has dipped its toe in the 'found-footage' genre yet again, with the release of Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes. Based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a young German woman who died during an exorcism in 1976, the film uses the device of a film crew arriving at the Michel house with a pair of medical doctors. We see events unfold through video, cine and CCTV cameras with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Title cards pop up every so often telling us that we are watching footage belonging to the Bavarian government.

Incidentally, the far superior film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose was loosely based on the Anneliese Michel case.

So, the film crew starts documenting the exorcism and Anneliese does some freaky stuff. Obviously, this being a 'found-footage' movie, people end up dying, including Anneliese herself (this is based on a true story, remember). Of the eight cast members in the movie, only one is of note, and that is the actress who played Anneliese. She really throws herself into the role and there are a few genuinely creepy scenes, particularly the one where she's eating live spiders.

Technically, the film is passable, however it is hard to suspend disbelief that this is being filmed in 1976. It just doesn't 'feel' like thirty-five year old footage. But that's a minor quibble. My main gripe with the film is that frequent cuts to shaky footage of the doctor's notes, which are barely legible, don't help the story. You don't get chance to read them and the scrawl is so bad (I suppose he is a doctor, though!) that only the odd word can be made out. Then there is the use of actual audio recordings of Anneliese. While it is interesting to hear these, they tend to go on for a little too long. You can't tell what is being said (even if you could speak German or whatever language is being spoken at the time) and it seems like the clips were added just to pad out the film.

That said, though, Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes isn't a terrible film, but it isn't a great one either.

** UPDATE **
(24^th March, 2011)

A couple of new movies to talk about today. The first is called Terry and is a brutal tale of urban crime.

Filmed as a fake documentary (the cast and crew are all credited at the end), we see events unfold from the point of view of Charles, a student making a film about the life of small-time criminal, Terry Jones. We totter around London, meeting plenty of, well, scumbags and it's all very "Leave it aaart, my sahn!"

That said, it's interesting and as the film progresses, you know that 'something' is going to happen. And it does... with deadly results. The film gains its 'found-footage' status due to the proclamation that the film was handed in to police anonymously, resulting in justice being done.

Terry is worth a look and it's an interesting entry into the 'found-footage' genre.

The second addition to our list today is Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night. Apparently produced with the full backing of Oren Peli, Tokyo Night is a true sequel to Paranormal Activity.

The film begins with the arrival home in Tokyo, Japan, of Haruka Yamano after a trip to San Diego. During the trip, she had a car accident, which broke both her legs and resulted in the death of a young woman 'who had killed her boyfriend'. Confined to a wheelchair while her bones mend, it falls to her brother, Koichi, to take care of her while their father travels to Singapore on business.

Haruka tells her brother that her wheelchair keeps moving by itself and he decides to set up video cameras to catch the event. From here on, things go as expected. Objects move, doors open and close and footsteps pound. It's all very well done and the producers of this film really ratchet up the weird happenings. There is also a direct link to what is going on and Katie Featherston.

In a finale that harkens back to other J-Horror titles, such as Ring and The Grudge, Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night is a great, creepy addition to the franchise. The DVD release in the UK appears to have been delayed several times and I'm wondering if this is because of legal wranglings with Paramount Pictures. While the connection with the other films is tenuous and only talked about, it might cause problems for continuity, particularly given what was seen in Paranormal Activity 2. Or it might be something else entirely!

**UPDATE** I have just received an email from Amazon, informing me that Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night will be released on October 10th, 2011. This will bring the release just before the scheduled opening of Paranormal Activity 3.

** UPDATE **
(3^rd April, 2011)

I remember seeing the trailer for Unaware quite some time ago, but forgot all about it. Bizarrely, there is still no distribution deal for this film and is still doing the festival circuit. The producers are refusing any requests for screeners or review copies and limiting festival organisers to one screening each.

According to the website, the film tackles the question about what happened to the alien bodies recovered from the Roswell Incident of 1947.

Hopefully, the movie will get some sort of distribution deal soon and those of us who cannot get to the movie festivals can see what it's all about. In the meantime, here's the trailer:

** UPDATE **
(24^th April, 2011)

I would like to thank Bryan, who sent me an email about the latest film from Oscar-winning director, Barry Levinson. The Bay, which is to be distributed by Lionsgate, is a found-footage ecological horror film which previously went by the name Isopod. We see the action through the video tapes of the now-dead inhabitants of a small town on Chesapeake Bay. The film is produced by the team behind Paranormal Activity. This, along with a director like Levinson means this could be one of the biggest found-footage films yet released.

Click here for more information.

No trailers or anything just yet, but this video was uploaded to YouTube showing filming of the movie in Georgetown, South Carolina:

** UPDATE **
(8^th May, 2011)

Written and directed by Michael Goi, Megan is Missing is a powerful film about paedophilia and murder. Supposedly inspired by true events, but using fictional characters and locations, the film is the story of two 14-year-old girls, Megan Stewart and Amy Perkins. We are told from the outset that both girls have disappeared and that the film we are watching is made from webcam, telephone and camcorder footage, along with news media material. The first half of the film shows us how Megan is outgoing, going to parties, taking drugs, drinking and having sex. Amy is quiet and reserved. Megan has a fraught relationship with her mother and has been sexually abused by her stepfather. Amy's family life is stable and happy.

After meeting a boy called Josh through her computer, Megan disappears. Amy suspects Josh, but she also disappears. We see the fate of the two girls when police find Amy's camcorder in a trash bin. It's stomach-churning stuff, mostly for the fact that we are supposed to be watching two very young girls. It reminded me a little bit of The Poughkeepsie Tapes when we discover what happened to Amy and Megan. While it's not the best film in this genre, with some of the acting leaving a lot to be desired, it's worth seeing if only to remind us not to trust anybody we meet on the internet. This movie ain't Catfish!!!! The movies official website is www.meganismissing.com.

© Steve JC Johnson - 2011