Review of Exists

Exists (2014)
Its No Blair Witch
4 April 2013
So I just came back from a pre screening for this film and I won't give away any spoilers. I will say it wasn't that great but not horrible. The acting was pretty bad, the strongest character was the lead stoner guy. It does a decent job of setting up the found footage aspect but its follows the extremely cliché horror conventions and stereo types so its highly predictable. There's no cool kills or gore it was all really lamely attempted and there's so many awesome kills you could do in a bigfoot movie so it seemed a bit of a wasted opportunity. I know a lot of people will hate the ending its pretty anti climatic and a tad silly. My biggest grudge with the film is its a found footage movie but there's titles and a score. You don't score a found footage movie! The object of these films is to make the viewer forget there watching a movie and make them believe there watching something real. If you have music playing over your scenes it takes that element away completely. What the movie did do right was the sound design, it makes some of the bigfoot scenes intense but they never fully get to a level of "scary" or "frightening". I doubt it will get a theatrical release it will probably be on Netflix by summer but if its lucky it will get some around Halloween in some areas. I can say though its probably the best attempt at a bigfoot horror movie i've seen, i've only seen a few but none have been very good. If your into low budget horror i'd give it a shot you will find some thrills but for a veteran horror lover it won't fully satisfy.

5 out of 10
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