I dig up many horror movies on the web I haven't seen yet. This one seemed to surface on its own. "Hooked Up" follows two young guy friends who venture to Barcelona looking for some plain old fun. They meet two girls and one of them knows of an abandoned house they could go party at. Already being drunk, they all decide it would be a good idea to go check it out. One of the guy friends is filming everything on his iphone. The director probably really did shoot most of this film with some type of iphone camera, but its not noticeable at all. The camera work, for found footage, is top notch. It seems the director really had an in depth idea for this movie. Once they characters enter the haunted dwelling, the movie really takes off and what follows is a ton of disturbing, loud, and bloody mayhem. I really liked the character development in this movie. The acting seemed really raw and realistic. The two leads had very different personalities but were still close friends, which is often the case in real life. I really liked how we saw Peter, one of the leads, kind of slowly go mad. From the opening scene we saw how Peter had a little bit of a temper. Once trapped, his anger escalated really fast, resulting in him acting very impulsive, violent, and selfish. Towards his best friend.
This movie is also very scary. It takes an approach somewhat similar to REC, or possibly even Grave Encounters. A group of people trapped in a big building. Although they are similar, they are also very different. This film has you guessing if what is going on is supernatural or not. Then just when you think you have it all figured out, another layer of complexity is added. As soon as the friends enter the house, the movie moves at a fast horror packed pace. This is also a very imaginative horror movie, because the director plays with many different horror tropes, including one of my favorites: (**SPOILER ALERT**.............) a hungry, skinnily deformed, very scary person chained in the dark in a corner on one of the floors of the house. This was very unexpected for me, and it scared the HELL out of me. Peter is the one who finds this person, and even after all the mayhem that had already been going on, Peter decides to trust this person to lead him through out the very dark and scary house to safety. This is an extremely intense and scary scene for the viewer, as the questionable person keeps on turning around to the camera to make sure we are still following her. Her voice is very scary and the way she fast walks is very unsettling. Through this journey amongst floors not only does Peter lose his sense of direction, but so does the viewer, leaving us in a state of complete vulnerability and filled with dread. The fact that this is a found footage movie makes it so much more effective. The way Peter blew up mentally was entertaining, raw, and believable. The female characters were pretty. The horror was intense. Overall I rate this movie 10 out of 10 because it is rare that I find a found footage film that is truly unforgettable, and this is one of them. Follow my other reviews!
This movie is also very scary. It takes an approach somewhat similar to REC, or possibly even Grave Encounters. A group of people trapped in a big building. Although they are similar, they are also very different. This film has you guessing if what is going on is supernatural or not. Then just when you think you have it all figured out, another layer of complexity is added. As soon as the friends enter the house, the movie moves at a fast horror packed pace. This is also a very imaginative horror movie, because the director plays with many different horror tropes, including one of my favorites: (**SPOILER ALERT**.............) a hungry, skinnily deformed, very scary person chained in the dark in a corner on one of the floors of the house. This was very unexpected for me, and it scared the HELL out of me. Peter is the one who finds this person, and even after all the mayhem that had already been going on, Peter decides to trust this person to lead him through out the very dark and scary house to safety. This is an extremely intense and scary scene for the viewer, as the questionable person keeps on turning around to the camera to make sure we are still following her. Her voice is very scary and the way she fast walks is very unsettling. Through this journey amongst floors not only does Peter lose his sense of direction, but so does the viewer, leaving us in a state of complete vulnerability and filled with dread. The fact that this is a found footage movie makes it so much more effective. The way Peter blew up mentally was entertaining, raw, and believable. The female characters were pretty. The horror was intense. Overall I rate this movie 10 out of 10 because it is rare that I find a found footage film that is truly unforgettable, and this is one of them. Follow my other reviews!