EXISTS

Exists Movie Review

With dreams of becoming YouTube sensations, five friends go deep into the woods to shoot some videos. While out there, they stay in a cabin...will they ever learn? Eduardo Sanchez, the director and co-writer of The Blair Witch Project, directed this, another found footage film set in the woods, but wow, it falls well short of the 1999 money-maker! With this, we do have many different cameras--there's pro-am cams, cell phones, lots of GoPro's, and so on, so we get nauseating shots from all angles. The five friends are as uninteresting and one-dimensional as you can imagine. There's a white dude and another white dude, and they are interchangeable. There is a white chick and another white chick, and they are also interchangeable. There's also a black dude. He drops even more F-bombs and gets angry easier than the rest...at least that separates him somewhat.

He also mans the gun

On the way to their destination, the five dopes hit something, but they're not sure what. We can tell by the video early on it was likely a Bigfoot, however. Much later in the movie, they begin getting stalked by the Sasquatch--it seems to take forever to get there too. We get brief glimpses of the hairy beast at first, but patience pays off, as we get really good looks at the monster later, and I must admit, it looks cool. CGI is bypassed (thank goodness) in favor of a big dude in a suit, and this is pulled off nicely.

The fur's flying now!

There is a somewhat interesting twist near the end, but it's nothing you don't see coming if you are paying attention. There's really nothing else gong for this movie. The characters are bland, the story is boring, it's shot poorly, and, at 81 minutes, it seems to go on twice as long. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4

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