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Watched With: Kate

The Blair Witch dud is back. This time though, bigfoot is in the woods terrorising the group of young adults. It's a pretty classic cabin in the woods set up. They provoke a monster and then one by one get picked off.

It's a found footage film and makes use of go pros and night vision and the various regular tropes. Although oddly they have a cast list up front which really seems to negate the whole point of using the found footage techniques.

The cast are alright. Made me feel a little racist that the one African American guy I just wanted to die. But really he's the most annoying character, the one that just complains the entire time and does everything wrong and gets people in more danger. Perhaps that's intentional, typical horror film character.

But the characters in this one do a lot of really stupid things. So it's okay, they brought this hell on themselves.

There are certainly very effective scenes of suspense throughout. The sound design goes a long way in helping that. But this one ends up going for the roller coaster ride slasher thriller rather than the slow building suspense that Willow Creek managed so well. It has no problem showing the creature from the get go, and jumps right into the scares with no build up. It's a pity because the scenes of suspense really work well, but the teen slasher set up works against that. I kind of wish it was one or the other, the mix is a little weird. It feels like it just wants to be a straight up traditional film, but only manages to get its scares from the found footage slow suspense pieces.

Bigfoot himself works well seen in glimpses. But towards the end we get some close ups and the prosthetic effects are okay but it really take away any mystery the creature had.

Overall I think it was more of a success than I was expecting. It's just nice to have some decent horror films on the big screen. There's some cool stuff and some frustrating choices but overall it's pretty effective.