THE REJECTED

 

The Rejected Movie Review

A middle-aged man experiences strange happenings at night, so he sets up cameras to capture whatever is taking place--think Paranormal Activity, but with less complex equipment. What is happening to this guy isn't the work of ghosts or an evil spirit, however--are you ready for this surprise? IT'S ALIENS!!...oh wait, you're right. The picture above gives that away. The presentation of this is one that claims this is discovered footage, and it's all real...think The Blair Witch Project here. There are practically no credits at the end, as they are limited to a 2018 copyright to the company POV Horror. Like so many movies that have come out before it, what we see is the found footage put together to kind of tell a story. For much of this movie, we see the result of two different cameras rolling at the same time. 

Whole lotta this goin' on

This movie suffers from the same things almost every other found footage movie suffers from--at the forefront of this is the fact the person shooting the footage continues to do so, even while in extreme peril. Call me crazy, but if I have aliens abducting me, my first thought will not be to grab my phone so I can document the entire event. The acting is almost exclusively from the mystery man--we don't know who he is, as, again, there are no credits, and it seems the makers of this movie have gone to lengths to keep this film off IMDb as well, so don't go there for answers. Whoever the guy is, he does a decent job, but is in no way strong enough to carry a movie himself--his acting in the scene where he is supposed to be crying was painfully bad. The special effects are really not too bad for what must have been practically no budget, so some credit has to be given there. While there are some uneasy moments in the movie, the whole thing falls apart in the last 15 minutes. The Rejected turned out to be a little better than I expected it to be, but I had the bar set rather low from the start. This is certainly not a movie I would recommend going out of your way to find. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4

The Rejected Movie Trailer