After watching House of Manson, I decided that I wanted to
go in a different direction with my selection for the evening. After some
thought, I settled on the 2013 found footage entry The Levenger Tapes that I found
at Family Video.
Plot/ Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame
of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students.
The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come
upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take
it upon themselves to find her.
After watching House of Manson, this one fell short and
offered very little (even as a found footage types entry). In fact, this one
does very little to build upon the found footage legacy and may be more proof
that the subgenre has run its course. The performances of the minimalist cast
are uneven at best, the storyline is cliché, vague, and offers very little
excitement, and there are so many head scratching moments that it makes it
difficult to watch. In the end, this one did nothing for me and was in no way
memorable (unless you are a police officer and you reminisce about police work
in the 1980s). I totally recommend that you stay away at all cost.
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