In August 2012 Ian Ford set out to review The Aslyum Tapes on his laptop from a Starbucks in Holborn. He disappeared after ordering a Tall Latte with sprinkles and his body was never found, but, from a discovered pen drive, this is the verdict of his final hours...
Ok, so that lame intro has probably been done before to mock yet another “found footage” film, but that just underlines the point that people keep bloody making them. Enough already! It may be cheap, but it’s not big or clever, and hasn’t been since The Blair Witch Project some 13 years ago.
It’s especially annoying here, as the location is a real insane asylum, which is a fascinating and undeniably creepy card to play with. Yet because this is a fictional film masquerading as found footage, the potential phoniness of the interactions constantly chips away at the tension. Whether...
Ok, so that lame intro has probably been done before to mock yet another “found footage” film, but that just underlines the point that people keep bloody making them. Enough already! It may be cheap, but it’s not big or clever, and hasn’t been since The Blair Witch Project some 13 years ago.
It’s especially annoying here, as the location is a real insane asylum, which is a fascinating and undeniably creepy card to play with. Yet because this is a fictional film masquerading as found footage, the potential phoniness of the interactions constantly chips away at the tension. Whether...
- 8/30/2012
- Shadowlocked
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