found-footage – Arkham TV

Review:

So big brother David is shooting a documentary and is making fun of little brother Jacob who is shooting a remake of the Blair Witch Project and is a total prick.

That’s the story, basically. This is a parody of found footage films shot as the making of of a found footage film. The movie has its moments, thinking about it I must say that some bits are just great, and it’s certainly the best found footage movie I’ve ever seen. But most of the time I just miss things like story and sympathetic characters.

By the way: all the time I was hoping that director Ishak Issa would play the part of Jacob, but was pretty sure at the same time that he was David. So it was quite interesting to watch the end credits and find out which character he actually played.

One last thing: I can relate to most characters in this movie because I’m a wannabe myself. A wannabe critic, that is.

⭐⭐⭐

Room For Rent (2016) 70min with Erin Brown. English sound with autocaps. VPN:D ⭐⭐⭐

So there is that dude who buys a house because he thinks that this is what grown people do. When he finds out that he cannot pay the bills he starts searching for a a roomier via internet. Via internet? Yes, and soon people start trolling him with stories about just how haunted his house is. So he tries to prove that his house is all right.

Well, I’m so totally not a fan of found footage movies, and I like microbudget movies only when they are well written and executed with diligence. The reason why I watched this is Erin Brown, I’m a bit of a fanboy since I saw her (as Misty Mundae) in Spider-Babe. In this film, however, she was not so convincing. She said her lines and walked across the lane clearly not knowing what she was doing there.

The really impressive thing about this movie: one of the bigger problems with this kind of movies are the unskilled actors, and here, in this movie, the sister and the friend of the hero are incredibly convincing. How come? Are they pros? Are the naturals? Well, I love to imagine that they are both awful actors, and since the author knew this he wrote parts for them that would not require actual acting, they just had to overact while being themselves. Well I love this theory and if it should be wrong, please don’t burst the bubble.

Anyways, this is definitively a 3* movie, fully okay if you occasionally watch microbudget found footage movies.

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