FOUND FOOTAGE TRIPLE BILL

Having recently sat through ' a night in the woods' i needed a dose of found footage films to wipe that painful 80 mins out of my memory, first up.

TROLLHUNTER 2010

A group of documentary makers are trying to film what they think is an illegal hunter, they soon realise he is a goverment sanctioned trollhunter, paid to hunt down and kill trolls that have escaped from their designated area. the film goes through all the major troll groups, which get gradually bigger as the film rolls on. trolls are attracted to christian blood so the camerman doesnt last long. followed by the amusing hiring of the replacement cameraman. 'so are you sure your a muslim?'. the troll fx are great, the actors take it all seriously and it ends the same way as all found footage films end, abrubtly.

BLOOD/VIOLENCE - 2/5 - troll attacks, a couple of goats get it
SEX/NUDITY - 1/5 - the trolls are naked
SCARES - 2/5 - Trolls!!!!

FILM - 4/5 - excellant stuff, trolls are great

Next up was the latest hollywood offering.

APOLLO 18 2011

Its the lost footage of the apollo 18 mission, which never officially happened but all the conspiracy nutters out there have known from the start that it was aliens all along etc etc. so, 3 astronauts investigate the dark side of the moon, they find a crashed russian moon lander and a dead russian, the moon rocks are also really living spider things that crawl in your suit and cover your face up as you scream. theres only so much you can do with this sort of film but the change of setting keeps it interesting enough to see it through to the 'aaaaaah' equipment shorts out>>> end.

BLOOD/VIOLENCE - 3/5 - the rock spider things are pretty gross
SEX/NUDITY - 0/5 - three blokes in space, i should hope not
SCARES - 2/5 - a couple of 'boo' moments that work quite well

FILM - 3/5 - the fact that its on the moon is all thats different, but that'll do.

and last on the evenings list. from spain.


ATROCIOUS 2010

For some reason the spanish rock when it comes to found footage films, rec, rec 2 and now atrocious, a film that starts the same way as all the rest. heres a happy normal enviroment, heres what goes wrong etc. but instead of the usual 'no answers'abrubt ending, it delivers a proper ending, with proper views of bloody corpses and an explanation of what you just saw. which incidently is a couple of teenagers who film ghost stories to eleviate boredom on a trip to where there mum grew up who end up getting violently done over by a nutter with an axe. ill say no more but definatly check this one out.

BLOOD/VIOLENCE - 4/5 - kids getting burnt and chopped, not happy
SEX/NUDITY - 0/5 - nothing that i remember
SCARES - 4/5 - it delivers the required chills once it gets going

FILM - 4/5 - a top notch, slightly different, found footage film