Catskill Park

So much wasted potential, even for the overdone 'found footage' genre. Needs much more of a build-up to the "scary parts", I use that term loosely...it just dives right in less than halfway through, and the first part is annoying picking and bickering. I have no idea how it ends and I don't even care enough to skip forward through the boring parts more than I already have. I don't understand why, if there is ONE camera, it keeps switching to different views in a matter of seconds, it's distractingly obvious there are camera people there and it's HEAVILY edited. No one in a forest would waste their battery on bickering.

Classic UFO handheld horror film with fake abductions. In this we see more people on a camp going missing, climate changes with early autumn snow and more conspiracy nuts. Millions of streaming today makes you not missing a horror movie unlike when you was a teen and had your VHS recorder ready for TV movies not suitable for small kids as said.

Let's just say the acting was passable. So, no real problems there. Aldo, don't believe the IMdB synopsis. There is NO 36" snowfall trapping them in their tents. Minor snow, but no 3 ft blizzard. The rest? Typical found footage. In this case, instead of late teens/early 20s, we have late 20s/early 30s. Two men/two women. The guys have known each other forever, the ladies, kinda. Typical characters, though. The tough guy, three women, takes who ever may be available even though he does have a steady. The other, budding film guy. Series on the web, developing one for regular channels. The women are your stereotypical females. Strong, confident until trouble hits, then weak & unable to think for themselves. The aliens were not much more than a dummy in a fridge & bright lights with weird noises. That was it. Supposedly they cannot escape from the area, but they're doing this in the early morning hours when it's pitch black out. No flashlights & no reasonable way of keeping on track with getting out. Is this movie fixable? Possibly. The biggest fix would be to shorten it by about 15 min. Would it detract? No, it would tighten it up & make it better. The biggest problem for FF movies is not the bad acting, the lousy camera angles, the shaky cameras, out of focus, they don't help. It's the simple fact that they believe we want every shaky angle, every close up, every weepy, snot running apology or explanation. Overall, it's not a bad watch, but too long, too tedious, & too tired.

With the stupid camera jumping around, this movie quickly becomes unwatchable. I got about 45 minutes in, and I just can't take it anymore. Besides, If this were real life, what kind of person would film constantly? You're camping with a pretty girl. Put down the damn camera. Makes no sense.

This one falls somewhere between the millions spent on Cloverfield and the few thousand spent on The Blair Witch. Great acting and character arcs for a horror film, awesome affects and stunts for a lower budgeted sci fi film (under 5 million) and enough twists and turns to keep you jumping! I mean -- how did they get the timing of that snow so perfect?!? And the Alien scenes with the crazy doctor?!? Highly reccomend for the horror sci fi fan.

I honestly believe I could get my phone, spend 1hr on a script and spend a few days making a more entertaining, better acted and looking film - yes, it's that bad, I genuinely cannot believe this has even been released.

I enjoyed this movie. It might have been low budget but the acting was good and the movie had high tension throughout and it was creepy. I would recommend it to all science fiction fans.

Trailer—Catskill Park