UNLISTED OWNER is another laughably terrible indie found footage horror flick, made on the cheap by a bunch of people who really don't have much idea about basic filmmaking principles. This one sees a family murdered in a house, causing a bunch of teenagers to head over and investigate the place, filming the whole thing as they do so. This particular effort spends a great deal of time on set up, interviews, and introductions, as well as some of those unnecessary driving scenes. The actual stuff at the house is hurried over at the climax. There's no atmosphere to speak of, and as for horror content, you can forget it.
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Leofwine_draca16 January 2018
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Forca8419 April 2019The film begins interestingly enough with a new Family moving into a House. Unfortunately this lasts all of 5 minutes. We flash to the bulk of the film focusing on some loud mouthed annoying Teens. As per usual they spend about 30 odd plus minutes yelling and arguing. This did not make them endearing.
Eventually the family's bodies are retrieved by the local Police etc. We are basically told they were all murdered by a random psycho. The kiddos regale a tale about a local weirdo who burned a group of people in the same House. Is he back from the dead etc.? Not sure. The movie never really does anything with the scenario. I guess he didn't die... Despite the kiddos allegedly finding his Grave.
This leads us to the little scamps investigating the house... You can tell where this is going. To add insult we don't even get onscreen deaths for everyone involved. It just kinda ends with a new Couple moving in and a lame jumpscare. Which made me wonder who the hell would buy a House where two separate murders happened?! Did the Realtor not disclose that detail? Must've had a great Crime scene clean up crew too. As the House is pristine when our new fodder for victims moves in.
I understand the movie is a microbudget. I don't hate on Indie films if it's entertaining enough or has a good script. The opening scene could've been it's own film itself. Showing the family slowly being stalked by a Maniac could've been interesting. Instead it abruptly cuts to an annoying group of foul mouthed screechy kids slogging through trite dialogue to get to a disappointing conclusion... The camera work for the most part is actually pretty decent. It's a shame the script couldn't have been worked on a bit more. -
casey-4271225 February 2020Take away the endless f bombs, and most of the jock jackasses are mute. This is awful. I gave up with 15 minutes left. Absolute garbage.
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klwarzala14 December 2017I don't know who gave this piece of crap all the stars, but they are lying. This movie starts off with a bunch of 20 somethings pulling pranks and bad practical jokes on each other. It doesn't get any better from there. I am 49 minutes in and I don't know how much more I can take. All of the constant bickering is giving me a headache and If they took the F word out of the dialogue, it would be labled a silent film. Clearly none of them can stand each other and I surely don't even know why they are all friends. At 50 minutes in, they are finally at the house, and still fighting and argueing. Ok, one of them is now pissing in the bathroom sink of the house. If you choose to watch this mess, good luck to you. But please watch it for free, don't waste your money. Better yet, give this crap a pass.
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nickyb-7913118 December 2017Please will people stop making these hopeless attempts at movies. "Found footage" is such a feeble cover for lack of skills in editing, script, lighting and directing. In the same scene the f-word can be bleeped out while not being bleeped out just 1 minute later. Even the cheapest compact camera's from 10 years ago had OIS. Just an annoying mess resplendent with battery indicators and flashing "Rec" indicators and distracting artificial pixelation somehow being recorded. I guess everyone that worked on this movie and their parents voted this to above a 3 star. Not close to having tension, suspense or horror. It would take a very special person to feel engrossed and invested in this cacophony. I should point out I never saw every minute of this; after 15mins of nothing but what was scripted or unscripted (improv dahling) rambling (without any character pinning) I skipped to the 30th. The only reason I would say to watch this is to see how all the excuses of pathetic movie making are covered up in the "found footage" genre.
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lynnebriangoldstein16 January 2018The only positive thing I can say about this found footage movie is that, compared to most found footage movies, the acting in this one is not terrible. Now, the negatives. First, the characters, especially the two alpha male guys, were so obnoxious, such douchebag pricks, that I could not wait until they died. Second, the movie was a bit more than 3/4 over before anything "horror" happened. That's right, the vast majority of this film is just some immature pricks yelling at one another. Finally, when something happens, it is not supernatural or even scary in any way. Third, we never find out who the villain is, which is so unsatisfying, given that I had to sit through most of the movie before any action happened. There was no character development, no plot development, no mystery, no build up to a climax, no denouement: just a bunch of hillbilly, immature pricks cursing and yelling. The most horrifying thing about this movie is that I wasted a portion of my life to watch it.
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erinlatch-8309231 March 2019This was one of the worst found footage horror movies I've ever seen. I should have turned it off after the first 20 minutes.
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kevinmeylemans17 May 2020So much could go wrong with these type of microbudget found footage type of scary movies First of all the acting is better than expected though couple of characters very annoying after some time. The script was quite okay on the offset but took a long while before anything interesting happened to get that essential fix of thrilling excitement. Guess that's where the movie fails to deliver. Last act was not that great but i have seen worse before so it leaves me with mixed feelings and give it still a 5 out of 10 at most.
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This movie had potential, but the bickering characters/actors made it almost impossible to finish. There are literally no words to describe how annoying their constant fighting was throughout EVERY MINUTE of this movie!!! The ending was decent, but by that point I was so annoyed I didn't care!!!
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mrpo-5847620 August 2019It is hard to make a film and complete,that it self deserves respect. I really did like this movie and the actors did a good job,I felt like I was hanging out with some of my friends. I also liked the attention to detail in most of the shots. All in all this film was fun to watch.
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FolkHorror16 September 2018Title: Unlisted Owner
Format: Amazon Prime Language: English Released: 2013
Director: Jed Brain
Starring: Chris Ash, Levi Atkins, Chloe Benedict
A found footage film...still here? I know, I can't stand them either, however, I have seen one or two that end up being good, so I still watch them in the hope I can uncover a gem.
Is this one? Well, yes and no to be truthful. The debut film from Writer, Director and Actor, Jed Brain, he does try and approach this flooded sub-genre with fresh ideas. Most found footage films are shot in a standard movie format, not making them believable as they are meant to mirror the everyday life of the person shooting them, instead they end up covering months at a time over the course of the film.
'Unlisted Owner', doesn't do this. It follows a group of 'friends' over the course of a day, from loading a pickup to the bloody finale. For me, this really helps us get under the skin of the people in the film, to understand them to a better degree than other films in the genre.
I'm jumping ahead a little, so back to the start. The film opens to a family moving into their new home, they are quickly taken down by an unseen killer, setting up the plot of the film. From here we meet your hapless friends getting ready for a camping trip.
This is where the biggest problem for me starts. Now, being English, the word 'friend', may mean something different over here in the UK, than in the U.S.A, but I can not understand how this group call themselves friends. They are constantly at each other's throats and even say several times throughout the film how much they hate each other.
In particular, the two women were so unlikable and annoying, I was hoping they where killed off first in a justifiable gruesome way. Yet for every bad there is a good. The interaction between these different people seems believable if you consider them mates at best and not friends. Add to this the acting wasn't bad either, making the viewer believe these people could easily exist. In turn, this made the finale quite a tension filled jaunt through the murder house as one by one, they fell. In my opinion we could have done with getting to the murder house a lot faster than we did, as again (in my opinion), the set up wore out its welcome, mainly due to those annoying girls.
So, will it redefine the found footage sub-genre, no, but to his credit, Jed Brain does try something new and almost pulls it off. With a little tidying up in the editing studio this could and should have been much better. Yet, as it is, its not bad and it is the first time in a long time I've made it to the end of a found footage film, so that for me, counts for a lot. -
horrificbynature30 September 2019Believable Characters (check) Realistic environment (check) Meaningful found footage (check) Cool Killer (check) Cool Deaths (check) Talented Filmmaker (check)
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pdulski10 January 2018First off I wanna say, I've never heard of this film until the Writer, Director and Actor emailed me to do a interview for this film. Knowing what I knew from the more of info email, I agreed to setup with interview. So a couple days BEFORE we were gonna do the interview over the phone for the Everything Horror Podcast (which if you don't like no filter language avoid my podcast). From the time I spent debating to rent this (before purchasing this), I decided to go for it hoping I'd like it and not a waste.
I enjoyed the camerawork actually and the way they acted / setup sets to do some of the stuff was not really noticeable. The only thing we noticed was near the end was the blood, it did stick out to be more pinkish to really not believe it. I did however got an answer via the Interview that the special effects guy they had at the time wasn't available when it came down to the blood.
If you don't swear teenagers swearing like they would when being around friends and stuff, watch this film. If you can't stand swearing almost every line, just ignore it. And if you would like to check out the interview I did with Unlisted Owners writer, director and actor make sure to check out the Podcast. -
BringBackFear20 June 2018To all the found footage horror fans, this is a must see! It is interesting and it keeps you guessing!
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As a cohost of Collateral Cinema Movie Podcast, I watched and analyzed this film when we covered it on our most recent Indie Movie Review mini-episode! That being said, the first thing that stuck out to me was the attachment to realism. This is allowed by Jed Brian's use of the found-footage genre, and I think he fully achieves what he is trying for. However, the problem here is, the genre as a whole has been completely oversaturated, so I wouldn't say there is anything new or innovative here... and yet, I see a remarkable potential. With limited resources as a first-time writer, director, and starring actor-which is why we can admit the found-footage genre was actually a good choice, despite its flaws-Mr. Brian was able to pull off a thoroughly convincing narrative. And the way that narrative itself flows, and accompanying it the ratio of exposition to action, is where the twist ultimately derives from, although I dare not spoil that for you by being more descriptive. In fact, go watch it! With an Amazon Prime membership the movie is free to watch at the time of the writing, so I encourage everyone to give it a shot, and see what I mean when I say that Jed Brian has a future in the film industry... just with content that's maybe a little more original.
TL;DR: While this movie suffers from an oversatured genre, these problems aren't to blame on the directing or writing, and in fact, utilizing what resources were available, it's easy to see potential in its creator, and what he could do in a different kind of movie, and it's really worth checking out!
TL;DRTL;DR: Read title. And seriously, go check it out!
If you're interested in my and my cohosts' full thoughts, you can check out Collateral Cinema's short, spoiler-free review/analysis on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, YouTube, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts! -
With limited budget and a cast of local friends, I think director Jed Brian made a masterfully suspenseful and scary film that stands on it's own in the indie found film horror genre. Long dialogue scenes in the beginning serve to build character development between this group of friends who make the foolish decision to enter the house/crime scene of a grizzly serial murder. The shaky handheld camerawork help keep the suspense on edge as they searched through different floors and rooms of the house. It was what you didn't see around the other corner that scared you. The film pays homage to one of greatest found footage classics, The Blair Witch Project, and yet still stand as it's own work of art within the genre. If you are looking for a great scary movie to watch with a group of your teenage or college friends tonight, this is the one. It's young and fresh and has a new spin on an growing genre of horror. Jed Brian proved that he could handle the responsibility of writing, producing, directing and acting in his own film, a heavy burden for a rising filmmaker. But he did so with skill and affordability and by doing so, created a truly scary journey into the night...one that might make you think twice before sleeping in your first new home. You know how Steven Spielberg made swimming in the ocean scary....? Well Jed Brian made buying a new home scary. See it people....Unlisted Owner......if your dare........
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alphahumphrey-5484713 September 2019In the long row of not based on true event cam horror back when selfies became a big thing. It's no World War Z epic, but a low budget smalltown thriller to stream whenever you want to stream something exciting on a boring day.
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dstrollz106 January 2019I really enjoyed this movie I loved the killer and the cast. It was funny and it was freaky towards the end. But in all it was great all the way through.
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losman9430 December 2021Indie found footage movie directed by Jed Brian, follows the trend of low budget portable camera horror movies but does feature a cast of people who appear to be real friends out looking for fun and ignoring their better judgment. The Director's cut includes ten more minutes of footage and polishes up the film improving upon the previous release. Certainly better than most of the amateur-looking found footage movies, Unlisted Owner does pay respect to the 80s slasher movies that this movie certainly is inspired by and director Brian certainly is a filmmaker we should pay attention to.
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Deviating from the typical found footage formula, "Unlisted Owner" focuses primarily around the characters within the story, rather than the super natural occurrences surrounding them. The horror elements, of the film take a back seat to character development and serves primarily as an ever present shadow looming over everyone, subtly influencing events rather dictating their every action taken throughout the story.
This freedom granted the characters a sense of autonomy, which is typically absent from other films within the genre. The film begins through the perspective of a family moving into a new house. The events are recorded on home video by the eldest daughter of the family. The daughter voices her concerns and dissatisfaction regarding the move, while her father attempts to reassure her that everything will be fine.
What initially appears as a typical set up for a haunted house film takes an unexpected deviation when the entire family is slaughtered during their first night at the house. From that point, the perspective shifts towards a new group of characters along with the direction of the film itself. The new group consist of seven teenagers living near the area where the murder took place.
After witnessing the bodies being removed from the house, the group discusses whether or not to proceed with a camping trip they had planned in the woods near by murder location. After discussion the situation, all but one of the teenagers choose to proceed with the trip as planned.
The unofficial leaders of the group are two bombastic young men named Gavin and Tyler. While overall friendly with the others, the duo both impulsive and irresponsible, caring little about the consequences of their actions. Gavin and Tyler decide to take a detour from the trip in order to visit the house where the family was murdered. Despite opposition, the others ultimately decide to follow them to house where violence and death await them. Gavin and Tyler continuously display reckless and potentially dangerous behaviors on their way to the house such as drinking while intoxicated, calling in a fake 911 call and breaking into a crime scene. However, regardless of all misgivings, the rest of the group chooses to follow them anyways. By choosing not to act, even while openly chastising Gavin and Tyler's actions, the other members of the group continue to follow their lead. By relinquishing control to an outside party, they've convinced themselves that they are absolved of any responsibility or repercussions that may result from their actions.
This lack of action underlies a central theme within "Unlisted Owner". The concept of choice and free will. The movie asks the question of whether or not an individuals actions actually have any impact regarding their final destination. These ideas are explored from different perspectives through the two stories presented; The tragedy of the family murdered in their new house and the events proceeding the six campers entering the same house. The two stories are juxtaposed to each other, showing a family blind sided by a tragic fate and a group whose conscious actions appear to have led them to the same cruel fate.
"Unlisted Owner" takes an unorthodox approach to an over saturated genre and presents a unique and thought provoking film. If you're a fan of the found footage films and looking for a movie with a different perspective, then "Unlisted Owner" is a film worth your time. -
RickBryanPA1 August 2018Directors will tell you "found footage" films look easy to make but prove to be very difficult because the filmmaker must justify why the camera is rolling. Writer/director Jed Brian does follow the rule; a character with a brand new video camera obsessively documents even the most mundane moments while his friends argue with him, practically begging him to stop filming. The typical shaky camera angles are there for some of the more intense scenes but it is not too distracting.
The acting is better in some scenes than others. The cast seems to struggle at times with delivery in one situation and gels really well in another. Overall, the acting is not bad for a film with a tight budget. The script generally suits the characters and their demeanor but there are way too many "F-bombs." It fits some of the characters' personalities but in spite of the fear and the emotional reaction to the situation, the chronic swearing wears thin.
Although Unlisted Owner sounds like it could be a predictable, boring story, the plot generally moves along well. The story slows down considerably in the second act. Even though the young adults are goofing around before they make their ill-fated visit, some of the conversations seem a little long and unnecessary. The action picks up before this becomes intolerable.
The gore and make-up effects are adequate with nothing over-the top. Much of the violence occurs only partially on camera, adding to the creepy feel and leaving some of the more gruesome details up to the viewer's imagination.
The production value for this film is a true highlight. Projects like Unlisted Owner do not have the funding of a large studio and the filmmakers use their resources wisely. One scene involving a dashboard camera is particularly well-shot and effective.
The film is enjoyable and showcases a talented director who takes some chances with the cinematography that pay off. Pay special attention to the police evidence files setting up some of the scenes; they help establish the timeline of events and identify characters. Unlisted Owner is worth a look. The script is a little weak and the coarse language may dissuade some viewers but the story carries itself all the way through and keeps things interesting. . -Rick Bryan -
kyle-lafreniere12 February 2018Very rarely do I enjoy spending the little time I have available to me watching found footage films. The fact that their costs are typically minimal and can be filmed on any number of video camera, webcams and cellphones grouped with former films such as The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity (just to name a few of the more popular ones) makes some people believe they can become a film director overnight.
On the other hand, those who plan it out, put in the work and focus on all factors of their film including acting, realism and aura typically tend to push their way through all the noise providing film fans to something fun, interesting and unique and in this case, Unlisted Owner is able to serve this up to its viewers.
A large mistake many films in this subgenre make is avoiding following a realistic timeline which should be simple to follow and doesn't have many confusing things which could be very off-putting to most people.
Unlisted Owner follows a group of friends for a day who have decided to go camping but ultimately decide to break into a house which the brutal murders of a family took place that prior evening.
First time writer and director Jed Brian took the task of following a proper timeline to heart and gave us something that flows from start to finish, piecing everything together as though the local police department had created a video for evidence of the killings which had taken place using a variety of recording devices from the different people involved. On top of the fact that everything single scene looks like it was filmed in a singular take, this made It something I truly enjoyed seeing.
In addition, the acting throughout the entire cast seemed very natural, utilizing banter regarding drinking, women and sharing memories to fill in what could be considered the slower portions of the movie. This was also one of the major factors contributing to the films realism as these conversations were easily something myself and my crazy friends would discuss when hanging out together years ago.
The only negative I had (next to a bit of a shaking cam issue right at the start and trust me it was very minor) was that some of these aforementioned conversation pieces did feel a bit drawn out at times which may have been there only to ensure that the film would be considered feature length. Making a short out of it could have potentially raised my rating for it but that could also kill the story's progression thus ruining the film as a whole.
There isn't much more I can go over without ruining the film for people, but do recommend checking it out of you're a fan of either found footage films or lite slashers.
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adowning-7106624 October 2021Jed did an amazing job with this movie! Definitely a family favorite at our house. Love the found footage style and the real feel and connections between the characters. Can't wait to see more of his work.
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AngryDadPodcast13 October 2021Some times a classic pops up and you gota watch it and here is one of them classics. Found footage films are just something I love and it hits every note of found footage.