Bardlerx
Strictly average movie
Buffronioc
One of the wrost movies I have ever seen
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
alspoint
Don't waste your time, unless you like a movies with major plot gaps about morons that go on a 27 mile hike in the mtns in the middle of winter, don't know Anything about the wilderness, and have nonsense endings. If you do, then have at it!
Andariel Halo
This one appeared in my AmazonPrime all of a sudden, and had a generic enough description to not put me off too much in trying it out. Sexy young people lost in the woods have an alien encounter.
The movie felt a lot like a found footage type dealy but surprisingly it wasn't, based on the camera cuts. It treaded carefully, moving at a steady pace without immediately divulging in its alien content and instead played to a more realistic set of fears of getting lost and divided, especially when one of the protagonists reveals he didn't bring a map because he knows the area well enough. Completely unsurprisingly, something happens later on to incapacitate him and thus leave the others completely lost and without a map.
All throughout we get some minor incidents involving lights and malfunctioning electronic equipment that is standard of these sorts of alien encounter movies, and a lot of character interactions which shockingly turn out to be moderately intriguing, and the characters themselves aren't overtly annoying or insufferable or unrealistic.Ultimately, as calamities befall the group and the movie progresses, we start arriving near the end and we realize we haven't seen any actual alien-y stuff. We finally get one instance of someone being out and about when they should be unconscious, which then somehow turns into a fantasy dream sequence which doesn't quite go anywhere or hint towards anything.
The big reveal at the end was genuinely shocking and awesome, and manages to frame the entire series of events in an even more unsettling light.But then you realize the film is basically over, and almost nothing has actually happened. We basically had a far superior movie unfolding in the background of this one, and it's only revealed to us over the course of half a minute once it's all over.
I wouldn't mind this sort of movie with that sort of ending, but when so little actually happened in the movie itself, it becomes a major letdown.
Woodyanders
Four friends go hiking into the snowy Catskill mountains for the weekend. Things go terribly awry after the quartet finds themselves stranded in the woods with some kind of mysterious alien force.Writer/director Jonathan Blitstein relates the compelling story at a steady pace, takes time to develop the characters, makes fine use of the desolate wintry landscape, and offers a strong evocation of the extreme punishing cold as well as a potently unsettling feeling of total isolation and vulnerability. Better still, Blitstein's deceptively simple style and the overall eerily ambiguous atmosphere provide a jolting intimacy that in turn gives this picture an extra unnerving edge. The credible and naturalistic acting by Jamie Law, Nate Miller, Laura Ramadei, and Patrick Woodall keeps this movie humming throughout. Aleksandar Kosutic's no-frills widescreen cinematography and Giulio Carmassi's spare shuddery score are both low-key, yet still effective. A cool little flick.
Nolo Atmo
First of all, before watching this movie, read the title a couple of times and, believe me, it pretty much says it all about the threat that the characters will face in it. So if this is not your cup of tea, watch something else. That being said, aside from the fact that this movie is a very very close relative of The Blair Witch Project in its form and content, it is still somewhat entertaining. Unlike some people, I didn't mind the amateurish tone of the overall project. A few annoying details, however, kept me from being drawn into the story.1-The continuous fake wind whistling: being a "woodsman" myself, I know that this sound just never happens except in blizzards. In forest, you hear the trees rustling in the wind but not much more. A deep silence would have been more appropriate and would have added to the artistic value of the film. 2-The ominous experimental music: I would have appreciated something simpler that felt less like an arrogant intellectual display. Plus we get to discover, at the end, that the person that created the soundtrack is probably a fan of Bioshock. Hope he liked the last one as I did. 3-The end: the scope of what is revealed to us through the eyes of the surviving character kind of destroys everything the whole movie struggled to establish in the first place. I won't say too much but you'll know what I mean when and if you get there. Being a fan of survival horror genre, I still appreciated "Another Kind". But it didn't bring me the thrills and chills that some other similar movies did. I recommend it only to people who generally enjoy this kind of flick.