Skip this. It was terrible. The actors said their lines as if they were literally reading them for the first time. The characters are super unlikeable and the story is a blatant rip-off of Cabin Fever. Spend your time elsewhere.
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aligrew28 January 2018
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Leofwine_draca4 May 2021A really dull indie found footage horror film. The obvious inspiration is CABIN FEVER with a group of college students travelling into the wilderness. While camping out they drink infected water which turns them murderous. It's too cheap to be any good and has little to recommend it.
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phenomynouss12 February 2018I can't hate this kind of film. It's not in any way painfully stupid or offensive to the senses. The problem with it is that it's just bad. It's like a group of people trying to paint a mural when none of them have any experience painting.
No one here was ready to do what they had to do here. The acting was not even on a level of being "bad" so much as it is plainly obvious that these kids involved have never done it before. The camerawork gets a pass as it's supposed to look like school project done on a single handheld camera. Lots of the effects such as people swinging a bat or an axe are not properly shot or cut, and you end up with a scene such as someone swinging at axe, and very clearly aiming away to avoid hitting the actor just before the camera turns away.
Everyone here seems to be trying their best, but they just can't. Nothing comes across as genuine or authentic. The way they deliver lines gives me flashbacks of Drama I classes with students delivering their first live performance. The only actor who came across as truly awful and not just inexperienced was the man playing Reginald, who seemed to be wrestling with a mouthful of lines written by someone who's never seen or heard a southerner outside of a 1930s cartoon.
It would be admirable as a friends project or a drama school assignment, but this is not a finished film fit for public consumption. -
gustheaffen22 January 2018Wow, there is NOTHING redeeming about this move. Super bad amateur acting. A group goes out to a cabin and somehow forgets water and decides to drink from a stream. They don't boil the water, they just dip a cup in. What could go wrong. Basically this is all footage of one actor with a camera following his moronic friends around that drank the water and go back for seconds in some cases on purpose to get a high. Somehow this makes them morph into crazy violent animals or whatever. Then after they all just die off the main guy beats someone crazy up for no real reason other than he is annoying and has the worst 3 minute dialogue I've ever heard. Then one of the lost crazies comes back, ties up the camera guy and tells him she used to live there and knew about the water and basically brought them out there to experience the water for vengeance or something. Then she forces him to drink the water too and he immediately has issues. Fortunately they all die. I can't even imagine anyone writing or reading this script and thinking it was decent. Complete and total garbage. Even the name is just nonsensical.
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isobellefox21 February 2018This is my 63rd found footage film. A glutton for punishment, I keep sifting the mountain of no-budget found films for the few gems it contains. In the process, I have seen a lot of really, really bad movies. This one is easily the worst - although Secreto Matusita, Altar, and Classroom 6 are close runners-up.
There is nothing about this "movie" that is worth your time, even if you like found footage. The acting is terrible. Its not even good enough to be amusing, as in bad-in-a-good-way. The "story" is non-existent. The footage is padded with tons of "nature" scenes, which, in this case amounts to nothing other than leaves and a spider at one point. The "twist" is a joke.
The only good thing I can think of with regards to this utterly amateur failure of a film is that it does highlight the qualities that _good_ found footage movies have. Its easy to criticize found footage for having no "script" or having "shaky" camera work. Its easy to criticize these movies for their attempts at "realistic" reactions from the "actors." But if you watch Parched and then watch any number of other found footage films, you will find that there is in fact a baseline for good vs bad. It might not be enough to convince someone who simply doesn't like the medium that found footage can be viable, but it can at least demonstrate the merits of effort - which is lacking here in every conceivable way. -
rachsteinberg26 January 2018First off, you have to understand the dynamics of a found footage film to watch this movie, otherwise you'll hate it. For me, I like them in general (I LOVE Quarantine, an awesome concept with a great cast, and am meh about Blair Witch - all those jumpy camera shots make me nauseous).
This one felt very real to me, like it really was recovered video from someone's camcorder. It begins with one of the character's 'short films', which almost lost me entirely, but once that was over and I understood that the following footage was that character's, the "filmmaker"'s, perspective, I was along for the ride. The characters are fun, and often pretty funny - overall, the actors seemed really committed to making this zero budget movie come to life. The one dude in particular was really convincing and scared the hell out of me at the end.
The "twist" was all right - in fact, you could see it coming clearly, but there were some red herrings which threw you off. The final reveal was creepy, and I legit was freaked out by the one actress ( I won't spoil who...) - overall, I really liked the cast.
The camera work was actually pretty decent, and almost seemed like they were going for a "cinema verité" feel. The action did lag a bit in the middle, but definitely picked up in the third act, and had a cool climax.
Again, if you don't like this style of film, avoid this flick - but if you want to see a bunch of kids killing each other in the woods, this may be for you. I liked it. -
samrichmond30 January 2018This movie is an odd combination of comedy, horror and up-close nature photography. Aside from the hackneyed concept of 'kids go camping / partying / whatever, and get murdered', which is trite at best, there was a somewhat compelling revenge story at play here too. I liked how these archetypical characters lived up to their cliched horror tropes, but went beyond, with some interesting depth to them. The story was uneven in a few places, as was the acting, but then there were some genuinely creepy moments too. It had a gritty, almost real feel to it, and was shot pretty decently (and the actresses in it were hot, which definitely helped). Overall it was a fairly fun ride, with hiccups here and there, but the ending tied it all together, albeit in a typical fashion.
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mirandazeegore12 February 2018There's something weirdly voyeuristic in this low/no budget spectacle of frantic acting, blood curdling screams and primal survival instincts. There's a creepy feel to the whole thing, that keeps building and building and eventually erupts into an explosion of shadowy scares and flat-out BIZARRE murders. There seems to be a theme here about neglected ecological issues and pollution of the planet, which kind of gets lost in the mix of people running around and losing their minds. I liked the feel of it though; odd and somewhat sad in the end.
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carriewestbrook2 February 2018This flick is really well done and scared the living hell out of me. I loved the simple story and the cast was really likable. For this style of film, I really like what they did with it, exploiting the setting in a funky way. Really a fun ride with a cool twist!
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elisa_jenkins-6581919 February 2018I have to applaud the people behind this film; they seemed to make something out of nothing. It's a wild and weird ride from start to finish, an art-house / tongue-in-cheek slasher mashup that satisfies all the usual horror tropes, but goes beyond with some interesting philosophy underlaid. The dialogue is a bit stilted in places, but the actors really felt like they were the characters, with their true misery being glanced at in particular parts, and their terror just visible beneath the surface of trying to stay cool. It's far from a perfect film, but it has a uniqueness to it, even with a fairly familiar premise.
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renatajohnsonqueenbae21 February 2018Parched was all over the place fun - it start out slow and then goes wacky crazy nuts and they murder the hell out each other. I like the story, nice and simple, then it gets wild. The actors were all good at building up this insanity, bit by bit. The story goes like this: they go to an abandoned house to party in the woods, but the one guy "forgets" to pack the water. Later we find out it was a lunatic (hidden amongst them) who ditched the water so they have to drink from a stream to not dehydrate. The water seems fine, but it actually poisoned from a factory nearby. The factory belong to one of their dads it turn out at end. So they all lose their Sh*t and try to kill each other. The way each loses it is funny and different. I like they had an interracial couple too. So it turns out the one girl grew up in that house, and her family killed each other before, so she brought them all their for some cold ass revenge. The girl think she got away with it, but one wasn't dead and she drown her good in the stream. Full circle. I like how justice was served here - they all bad, they all dead.