I watched it last night on festival. I was expecting something good but my god was I wrong... It starts OK, like every found footage movie, slow and interesting. Nothing happens for 50 mins, and I started losing interest. You see nothing, atmosphere is OK but it not used at all. It was filmed on real snow storm and they spoiled it... Story is very bad, I like it when it starts slow but this one stays this way. Actors are nothing special, and you don't connect with them and didn't carry for any of them. Its not scary, and believe me I can easily get scared at night alone (I watched this one alone at midnight in open air cinema in the middle of the woods) but I didn't feel scared for a second, not intense at all and monotone. If you can, pass this one...
5 Reviews
Boring
jodwyer197514 February 2014
While this film starts off well it unfortunately fails to capitalize on a unique location to make something interesting. The best way to describe it is as a found footage version of The Thing without the paranoia or the suspense.While the characters aren't hateful they are never quite compelling enough to really root for and after about an hour in their company I was totally bored. I've nothing against found footage films. This one even has a steadier camera than most. Unfortunately, what's happening on camera is never really that interesting. These films can often be saved if the slow build up leads to a great payoff. Sadly that's not the case here. If you can pick it up cheap it's not the worst film in the world but even then you really could be spending your time watching something a lot better. Not recommended.
I've Found A Dodgy Camera
jabrbi4 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This is yet another "found footage" "horror" film and, sadly, it doesn't add anything to the genre.
The film starts off well enough, with lots of spectacular scenery on and near an Arctic glacier, and setting up the clichéd "group of people completely isolated from the rest of the world". However, after 10 to 15 minutes the film just slows right down. Two people wake up in the morning to discover that everybody else is missing from camp. They then spend the rest of the day mucking about, occasionally looking for the missing colleagues, but mostly just hanging about together.
It's only 40 minutes into the film that something demonstrably weird happens and the two protagonists start to panic. At this point, instead of ratcheting up the tension, the film continues at a glacial pace. Really, the film never changes pace at all; it's slow, slow, slow all the way. There's no tension at all.
One of the things that really annoyed me about the camera work is that the camera always glitches when something interesting is happening, but never at any other time. Sure, there are some electrical disturbances where the camera may well glitch, but the camera glitches when they find a 'body', and when the body moves. The glitch is like a visual punch in the face showing that something scary is happening. Really, the audience doesn't need the reminder, and it just becomes a major irritation.
We never find out what's going on but it looks a lot like a virus outbreak. Indeed, near the end of the film, when a rescue party is reviewing the found footage, this is the only logical conclusion to reach. Do they then set up isolation procedures? Of course not. Oh, dear, oh, dear.
You can't really class this as a horror film as there's no horror, nor as an adventure film, as there's no adventure. It's more like a poorly made documentary of 'what I did on my holiday'. I know lots of people say this but, avoid this film at all costs.
The film starts off well enough, with lots of spectacular scenery on and near an Arctic glacier, and setting up the clichéd "group of people completely isolated from the rest of the world". However, after 10 to 15 minutes the film just slows right down. Two people wake up in the morning to discover that everybody else is missing from camp. They then spend the rest of the day mucking about, occasionally looking for the missing colleagues, but mostly just hanging about together.
It's only 40 minutes into the film that something demonstrably weird happens and the two protagonists start to panic. At this point, instead of ratcheting up the tension, the film continues at a glacial pace. Really, the film never changes pace at all; it's slow, slow, slow all the way. There's no tension at all.
One of the things that really annoyed me about the camera work is that the camera always glitches when something interesting is happening, but never at any other time. Sure, there are some electrical disturbances where the camera may well glitch, but the camera glitches when they find a 'body', and when the body moves. The glitch is like a visual punch in the face showing that something scary is happening. Really, the audience doesn't need the reminder, and it just becomes a major irritation.
We never find out what's going on but it looks a lot like a virus outbreak. Indeed, near the end of the film, when a rescue party is reviewing the found footage, this is the only logical conclusion to reach. Do they then set up isolation procedures? Of course not. Oh, dear, oh, dear.
You can't really class this as a horror film as there's no horror, nor as an adventure film, as there's no adventure. It's more like a poorly made documentary of 'what I did on my holiday'. I know lots of people say this but, avoid this film at all costs.
Frost left me cold
russjohnson-116 August 2014
Was bored and surfing Netflix, saw this film, put it on and, by the end, really wished i hadn't. Not psychologically scary, no plot to speak of and the 'story' (such as it is) moves slower than the earth's tectonic plates. Which is a shame because, given the sheer majesty and beauty of the place they were filming in, it's a opportunity to create something truly thrilling that's been lost. The production values are very good unlike most 'found footage' stories i've seen but nothing can really rescue it from becoming a re-hash of the same idea and a poorly executed editing/pacing. I can only assume that the director had overdosed on Zanex.
Avoid at all cost
radioatlanta30 August 2014
I'm going to keep this simple pass immediately! We're was the director trying to go? Horror and Sci fi? not in this movie, and if you think I'm being too harsh well view it yourself and I promise not to say I told you so. Dialouge that leads no where? You don't even get to feel the connection to the two leads? Atmosphere was great had the look of being something exciting and never ever got there. I'm extremely disappointed because I waited for an subtitled version. I've seen some excellent foreign horror films before this one just misses. No tension, very little drama and even less of the genre it's supposed to be associated with.
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