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This movies features Zack, a guy who watched a youtube video on surviving in the wilderness and thought "yeah, I can do 60 days in the woods." Armed with a backpack that contains the worlds longest lasting battery, a knife, and a canteen Zack leaves his girlfriend and wanders off in a random direction. Things do not go well for him.

I liked the idea of this movie, it starts off really well, but then it just kind of drags. The middle of the movie is him inexplicably trying to stay at his shelter and the last third is him trying to leave but keeps returning to his shelter. It just makes those last two thirds of the movie really drag. I was pretty much counting down the minutes left in the movie because nothing new happens in the last 30 minutes.

* Three days into his adventure he comments he isn't eating/drinking enough and he probably should have practiced more. You think? I'm sorry, did you do a weekend camping trip once and thought that was pretty much the same as sixty days? It's not like there's some entity taking all the food, he thinks things are all going according to plan those first few days. He's just really bad at this.

* I enjoy found footage movies and I try not to be a snob about found footage movies. I can forgive them ignoring he somehow has enough batteries to last two months, but I can't really forgive them adding the music and the BWAAAAHS to the jump scares.

* First night, crazy sounds start happening. Second night, more crazy sounds. Third night he finds a voodoo stick figuring hanging directly in front of his shelter. Any sane person would just say "ok, I have no attachment to this particular shelter, you win whatever is messing with me. I am leaving." But no, he just brushes it off and doesn't try to leave until like two weeks later.

* I am pretty sure they used the same footage of the woman walking behind the shelter like four times.

* After repeated attempts to leave he keeps up ending back at his shelter. There's a scene where he's trying to map out his various routes and it's just hilarious. It's hilarious because he has no idea what direction he came to this camp from and no idea what direction he has traveled. He just figures "the road is to the left." Guy, if you're survivalist you should know your basic directions. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Start off in the morning with the sun on your left or right and go. If at the end of the day it's on the opposite side you did a good job.

* Assuming it's not his terrible sense of direction keeping him lost, you'd think he'd just follow the river up or downstream. You'd *hope* he had at least studied some maps and have some basic ideas where the water leads or comes from.

1 - Illogical. The guy is completely a moron. Who keeps their light on and camera on themselves during such an event?

2 - Unoriginal. For 2018...should expect more.

I wanted to like this movie for more than a 5 star rating, but there were things that just didn't make sense.

Our hero, Zach, is a nature expert/survivalist that is filming his efforts to make camp for 60 days and nights in a place called Hollow Shoals. He erects a solid, passable shelter and establishes a base camp, but before too long, he begins to hear strange noises at night around his shelter. This goes on night after night, and the strange phenomena intensifies.

While exploring, Zach finds an old, abandoned campsite, and a journal. He takes the journal back to his own campsite and begins to read through it. While reading the journal, he finds that the writer of the journal experienced the same things that Zach is. A few days later, Zach finds the skeletal remains of a human being.

Here's where I have trouble with this movie:

1.) Zach only hiked an hour from the road to where he made camp. He didn't hike back out to the road during daylight hours to find someone, and report finding human remains?

2.) Despite finding the journal, despite finding the human remains, despite not being able to find anything to eat, despite the escalation in hostile, eerie activity, Zach stays in his campsite.

3.) When Zach finally does decide to leave, he waits until dark, as opposed to hiking out in the daylight.

For someone who is supposed to be so skilled at woodcraft and wilderness survival, Zach makes bonehead decision after bonehead decision.

This movie can't seem to decide what the threat to Zach is. Is it Sasquatch? Ghosts? Both? As the viewer, you are shown evidence for both possibilities.

This movie had potential. It had an eerie atmosphere, and a few decent attempts at jump scares, but the bad outweighed the good, so I could only give it 5 out of 10 stars.

Let me start by saying that anyone who gives this movie anything above a five clearly works on the movie or is friends with people that work on the movie. There is absolutely no plot. He just kind of sits around His campsite listening to deathly screams and really makes no big deal of it. There was one part he discovered a skeleton. It looks like one of those plastic skeletons your mom puts outside on Halloween and they just never went back to that, he never went to report it or anything lol. It really is deserving of 1 * and it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life and I really like found footage movies.

Okay, I guess I don't need to tell you the plot, just read the summary.

So what's good? The main character is good. The actor playing him is good. The tense scenes where things aren't happening but you're scared that they might, are good. The whole thing works reasonably well.

What's not? The scares are over the top. The film is without a score, as is often the case for found footage, because why would there be music? But every time there's a jump scare - and there's a LOT of jump scares - there's this big musical BLAHHHHH! to make you jump.

And the scares themselves - in a movie like this things should escalate. You should have, like distant noises in the woods, then the noises get gradually closer, then there's some physical interaction, etc. Not here. Here, there's a typical ghost girl in the forest and one of the very first scares we get is the guy leans forward in his shelter and she's just there, right behind him, looking through a big gap in his wall. BLAHHHHHHH! At other times she walks past the front door of his shelter... BLAHHHHHH! Or sticks her face into his shelter and screams at him... BLAHHHHHH! It's honestly so much so fast that it's almost like they're going for comedy.

Nor is there any apparent logic to what's going on. Yeah, ghost girl is around. At one point he finds a skeleton in a long deserted camp. Maybe that's her? But... there's also some kind of monster that roars in the distance and pushes trees over. And somebody who leaves voodoo dolls outside his shelter at night. And whispering noises, and static on his camera, and pretty much anything else they could think of.

It's like they took a ghost movie, combined it with a Bigfoot movie, and then stuck a Blair Witch style thing in there, and some Satanists-in-the-woods stuff, too. Again, it's so over the top that you'd hardly be surprised if Aliens and Dracula and a Zombie Apocalypse turned up, with poor Zach looking at the camera and going "wow, what else could go wrong?!"

A couple of minor logic issues, too. He waits waaaay too long before trying to escape. Seriously, he's got knocked down trees and ghost girls and screams in the night from day one, and he's like a week in before he's even thinking of leaving. And when he does try to leave they do the "winds up back where he started" thing. But he has a small river nearby... why not just follow it downstream? Do that, and you'll reach something sooner or later. Okay, maybe not if some freaky supernatural force is distorting reality, but still, it has to be worth a try!

I know I've gone on at length about the flaws, but it's honestly a half decent effort despite them. I just wish there'd been a bit more thought gone into it, and a good deal more restraint in the scares.

Looked at the reviews and thought there maybe something in this. From the strat I thought there may be some meat on the bone of the story, but it went nowhere, only resulting in a headache from the constant camera shake. Still I sat through it hoping that it may amount to something, sadly not. Don't waste your time in sitting through this poor attempt at implied horror.

The beginning wasn't so bad. The first night, weird noises, whatever... second night, weird noises once again but horrid sounds of a woman screaming... this would set off an alarm to at least do something. Then the next day you find a human skeleton... sorry dude, forget about your male ego, swallow your pride and get back to civilization. More and more stuff kept happening that was putting his life in danger but he refused to leave at first. This obviously gets frustrating to the viewer. Your tired, super hungry, scared out of your mind, uncomfortable and lonely, just leave! I guess the climax of the film may have been when he realized that he couldn't get to the road and was trapped, constantly going back to his original camping ground, but it was too subtle in my opinion. There were some jump scares but no sustenance. I get that this is fiction but the smart people would have a burner or walkie on you in case of an emergency. Could have been better.

This movie as a whole is an insult to the found footage horror genre. The main character's actions, motives and reactions based on new or existing information is an insult to the human faculty of reason and rationality.

Here is the punchline, nothing happens. You get to watch an unattractive bumbling know it all idiot act scared while walking in circles and seeing basically nothing much to scare him. He also makes some onion soup and the first 15 minutes are just him acting like a survival specialist building a shelter. It was like Blair Witch meets Castaway and nothing happens, nothing explained just a fat guy screaming like a girl and disappearing. Good riddance and save 80 minutes of your life and skip this.