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Well, things are happening quite fast in this movie, mainly in the second half so I'm still trying to put together what really happened.

The story starts with four friends going to camp in a wood, one of them decides to make a documentary of the event (or about his friend camping as stated in the beginning). The tool of making the documentary is a hand-cam, so the atmosphere is quite the same we already know from several other films (not bad, actually, the only thing that disturbed me was the blinking light during the last about 20 minutes). The beginning is quite promising, our heroes arrive to the forest, tents up, campfire burning. (However, I don't really understand why they came by a kind-of trailer when they planned to sleep in tents... Well, I admit that it was useful for some subsequent scenes.) Night falls, strange sounds from the woods, next day a strange hairy creature in the woods, next night sounds getting worse, everyone is getting scared, they decides going home but one of them disappears.

This is the point when things are going wild and you better not even blink if you want to follow what's happening. And the point when the expected value of your IMDb vote starts to drop. Rapidly. Because from now on my perception of this movie was about like this: run- continuously bumping camera and blinking lights -dead body with neatly arranged intestines-run-some screaming (thanks God not too much)-a tractor-a strange place-please stay calm you are in a restricted area-run-hairy creature attack-run-some houses-another hairy creature attack-scream run-a huge complex-crazy zombie attack-reinforcement arrives-even more crazy zombie with hairy creatures-run-run-run-friend's head blown off-military helicopter-end.

So my biggest problem is: WHAT? I assume it was about some research lab (at a point we can see a revolving DNA on the screen-saver of a computer) doing bad-bad things to people and maybe animals and of course things go out of control and our friends here entered a place for camping they shouldn't have (this is all just a wild guess anyway). But how? And what? Too much things are happening in a very short period of time. I don't mind thinking during a film but I'm not really into putting together the pieces of some crazy puzzle when the whole picture will also be a complete mess.

Sometimes i wonder if the blair witch project should ever have been made- because of the production line of trashy copies in the found-film genre that have been given the green light by moronic movie execs. I've only really seen one decent one since, and that was made in spain (Rec) which borrowed off the likes of 28 days later and bwp, all decent movies. This is garbage. Like other reviewers have said before it wants to throw as many horror themes as possible at the audience hoping theyll swallow one - interspersed with some chase-cam footage alternating between the 2 leading girls backsides. I make no apologies for containing spoilers in this case - i couldn't possibly do anything to spoil the plot of this movie for you more.

The basic premise is quite simple -4 young campers get stalked by something mysterious in the woods and, oh wait a creepy old man has turned up, perhaps hes integral, hang on a minute, now there's a strange hairy gorrila sloth-bear chasing after them, no wait they've stumbled on to a medical testing centre, oh actually its full of lunatic asylum patients, ah right they're human cannibals too, they're wearing gas masks, maybe some contagion, ah yes here comes the US army to save the day, no wait the hairy gorrila things are back! but they have alien bug-faces now? Here comes the continuation-credits, thatll explain everything. Looks to have been one big failed experiment after all. Sums up the movie really.

If you watch this movie thinking it'll be an eerie Blair Witch-sort of horror movie, you're in for a surprise. I loved Blair Witch. This is just a sad rip-off with lots of bad acting and a confusing twist that raises more questions than it answers.

At first this is a typical "two guys/two girls go camping, drink, hear creepy sounds, get scared"-story. Which is fine. However the camera guy quickly started to p me off with a no way realistic reaction to the creepy stuff the group experiences. As the story unfolds the two girls begin to act increasingly illogical and in the end you have to sit through 20 minutes of running, screaming, "I'm gonna run out the door even though there's a monster out there"-decisions and headache-inducing camera work.

I don't know if this is meant to be the new Blair Witch Project or the new From Dusk Till Dawn, but it fails at both.

Even if I could get over the crappy acting, annoying characters, the not at all scary creature and the fact that I have to sit through the credits with all the flickering and static to find out what the hell just happened (apparently everything is explained, but almost impossible to read without pausing the damn thing), I STILL can't get over the gaping holes in the plot. An example: Why do the monster/monsters hunt them so intelligently at first - messing up their car, making noises without attacking etc. - and then later turn into blood hungry beasts running wild? This movie may be the worst horror I've seen in a while.

Our intrepid quartet of adventurers rent an RV, which is quite expensive in the real world, so that they can drive it, park it, and then go camping in the woods a mile away. When asked why they rented an expensive RV when the plan is to camp in tents some distance away, the reply is that one of the male leads needs a place to charge his camcorder batteries.

Never mind that one of the male leads drives a Jeep, which would make for a much better trail vehicle than to the RV. Never mind that packing extra batteries would make much more sense than spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars to rent an RV that you aren't going to spend any time in.

The premise of this movie is that one of the male leads is so impressed and so fascinated by the other, that he thinks his pal merits a documentary. Then we have the obligatory mini-make out session between the two female leads on video. While hiking on a trail, the group spots a large, mysterious figure down in a gully. When the figure bolts, Mr. Documenting-my-fabulous-friend goes running after it, leaving the others behind. Unable to find any trace of the creature, he returns, and everyone else is pissed at him for running off like he did.

Mr. Documentarian then interviews his fellow campers, who each individually tell him what a tool he's being. Of course, he is offended and mystified by their attitudes towards him. Can't they see the genius behind his film? Don't they understand him as a film-maker and an artist?

Then, we have the obligatory sitting around the campfire, getting so drunk that no one can speak without slurring scene, where our intrepid campers suddenly sober up when they hear strange and ominous roaring and growling in the darkness and distance. We are then treated to the mysterious, armed stranger who comes out of nowhere, supposedly looking for his lost dog in the woods... without a flashlight, a lantern, a torch, or even a Cyalume lightstick. Mysterious stranger offers everyone a drink from his flask, tends to the campfire, briefly plays with one of the camper's flashlights, and then ambles off into the darkness again.

Later that same evening, the mysterious creature shows up, and Mr. Documentarian wants to go chasing after it. Instead, the group treks back to the RV to take shelter. Along the way, Mr. Documentarian gets separated from the group. While the others wait in the RV, something climbs up onto the roof and starts banging around. A moment later, Mr. Documentarian shows up. There is an argument as to whether they should all take off in the RV right then, or wait until the morning. Mr. Documentarian refuses to leave without his gear, so they all agree to spend the night in the RV. The plan is to go to camp in the morning, collect their things, and then leave.

The next morning, Mr. So Fascinating That he Merits his own Documentary goes missing. The girls are worried about Mr. Fascinating, but Mr. Documentarian isn't worried about his bestest buddy and life long pal at all. Instead, he pissed at the girls for being worried about their missing friend. Mr. Documentarian sinks to new levels of a**holery by insulting and threatening the girls at every opportunity.

The remaining three members of the group go to look for Mr. Fascinating, and when they returned, the RV has been vandalized. Mr. Documentarian has a conniption fit, and has somehow come to the conclusion that Mr. Fascinating is responsible. He runs off into the woods, screaming and shouting about kicking someone's ass. Then, he finds a bloody clump of something, and sees a figure running off in the distance. Mr. Documentarian then proceeds to vomit for the next two or three minutes. He returns to the RV, shaken by what he's seen. He tells his girlfriend that he loves her, and sets off to get help.

The girls are left at the RV, and are attacked by the mysterious creature, which breaks inside. They flee the RV into the darkness, and fund the gutted remains of Mr. Fascinating. After huddling in the darkness for a few moments, they run off again, and stumble across a paced area. They are then informed by someone over a loudspeaker that they are in a restricted area. As they are told to remain calm and stay where they are, they are attacked by something off-screen. There is growling, machine-gun fire, and the sound of air-raid sirens. The girls flee again, and find themselves in what appears to be some sort of military base. There's an old army truck, and a horse. One of the girls arms herself with a claw hammer while the other has the video camera. They are again attacked and chased by the mysterious creature.

They dash off into the woods again, and follow a fence line. This leads them to a house, and the creature comes after them again. They manage to get into the house. This is one hell of an apex predator chasing them; they only successfully fight it off and escape about four or five times by the time that they get into this house.

The girls begin to search the house, and are again attacked by the monster. They flee once more, but are licked in the basement by an unseen someone. In the basement, they tear down some loose boards and manage to make their way outside. There, they meet Mr. Naked Except for a Hospital Gown, and Mr. Half-Naked and I'm Going to Kill You.

They are rescued by someone with machine-guns and a truck, and are attacked along the way by crazed people. Mr. Rescuer With a Machine-gun leads them into a facility that has been attacked by something, where they find more dead bodies, and Ms. I'm Terrified Don't Leave Me Behind.

Mr. Machine-gun takes the camera, and records a very pregant something as it is giving birth. As he films, Mr. Bloody Face attacks him. He fights off Mr. Bloody Face, and everyone bolts again. They are confronted by more men with machine-guns, who shot at them. They are attacked again by more bloody, crazy people, and one of the two original girls gets her head blown off. The remaining gurl of the original two makes it to a helicopter, and is air-lifted away.

This movie has no idea what the Hell it is. It starts out as a mysterious creature in the forest movie, evolves into 28 Days Later, and ends up with an ambiguous Cloverfield type ending, with broken strings of video images and communications.

Fortunately, I can tell you what it is; a colossal waste of time. We have zombies, clandestine experiments, shaggy beasts that were apparently once human, and no cogent explanation for any of it.

Woohoo! Another documentary type movie?!

The movie is all in all shot with a handy cam. The start was as usual as it would have been, but once in the woods movie was less scary then creepy. The plot got lost somewhere in the end. Couldn't figure it out what was the marine guy doing there? Why were there people like Zombies running for blood in the middle of the jungle. The creature (Another science experiment) looked like a ape covered in some kind of river "Algae". The story line could have been more interesting if there was less confusion in the ending. All in all, nice try. Better luck next time.

-10 out of 10 BAD. This is the most confusing, schizophrenic attempt at throwing together 4 or 5 bad movies and hoping for the best outcome, which is THE WORST. It starts out as one movie that looks like its starting a pretty good storyline, then it gets intense and you think... oh this could be GOOD! Then, out of nowhere... the entire story changes and leaves you in the dark. If you think your following then, your not because POOF, it changes AGAIN, then AGAIN... then the army comes into i and you think its a holocaust zombie movie... You hold your head tight and endure it to the end hoping and praying it will all come together and finally you will understand. NO SUCH LUCK.

Don't even bother to watch it unless your so bored your into trying to figure out a movie all night long. It hurt.

First off, I just wanted to say this movie escalated rather quickly. I will try to remain calm, as I have just wasted 70 minutes of my life on this film, and am close to losing my faith in humanity, but I will try to give an honest review.

If the movie had remained with the four original campers throughout the 70 minutes, and hadn't turned in such a random, abrupt direction and kept the story revolving around them being hunted by a Sasquatch styled creature, it would have much butter.

However, the big mistake this movie makes, was hiring a Producer and a screen writer who, while on several different kinds of hallucinogenic drugs, piled on the most incomprehensible, shocking, ridiculous plot elements I have ever witnessed in my entire life. The movie started off great, as the group was being hunted by this Sasquatch like creature. 40 minutes of screaming, running, and boobs later, it turns so abruptly, it was difficult understanding what in the hell was going on.

Coupled with the fact that the way the movie ended, which was infinitely as ridiculous as the plot itself, this turned out to be a rather dissatisfying film. Throughout the movie,one of the two surviving girls from the camp does the most idiotic things in the movie, such as opening various locked doors, running into danger unnecessarily, etc.

As the movie ends, I was close to throwing a tantrum after the only likable, somewhat reasonably logical character in the movie dies, (the blonde girl) while the **** for brains brunette survives.

If only the movie had revolved around the four campers, and have just remained that way for those 70 minutes, it would have turned out nice, as I have stated before. BUT, the credits scenes with the special forces killing everything in that underground facility, could have just been the entire movie as well, and would've been just as entertaining.

Honestly, I would rather see faceless characters in balaclavas cutting down creatures with gunfire, than watching a group of idiotic jackasses running through the woods. At least we'd have a clear understanding of where the movie would be going if it revolved around the spec-ops soldiers in the credits, no? The fact that I would prefer the former over the latter, just shows how terrible this movie was.

All in all, this was a very confusing and disappointing movie, where if I could, I would give this movie a -10 stars. -5, to be generous. Seriously, do not waste your time watching this movie.

(P.S.: If I have to see another movie where the likable characters or main characters are killed off and the supporting cast lives, (like Starship Troopers: Invasion) I will relinquish my humanity, take the next space shuttle to Mars, become a space hermit, and live in a cave for the rest of my life.)

This so called movie is one of the dumbest I've had to watch for like 2 years. The actors are awful : specially the brunette : she reminded me of my little brother when I used to film him acting all scared. The plot is dumb and you only get it if you read frame by frame information that appears for less than half a second at the end of the film : All this is about a secret laboratory which is handling biological material that is DNA recombinant hence we got some strange monkeys who are in fact human being which were exposed to this virus/DNA stuff. they are yet not all monkeys because it takes some time before they look like that so we have a bunch a "zombies" which are still human but not yet bloodthirsty monkeys. The first half part is boring. Nothing happens. Really it should have take 2 hours to write the whole scenario and dialogs. Don't waste your precious life minutes on this. The only thing I will remember from this film is the jeans short of the sexy blonde girl...But anyway this is not a professional movie : the "actor" who holds the camera is actually also the writer of this crap and it's his first movie ( he's 30) so you can understand why it's so horrible..

I have seen just about every found-footage flick out there. Like many people I was attracted by the trailer for "Evidence" when it came out last year. I was told that this was the highest-concept found-footage film of all time. Apparently, they were a liar. This has more similarities to "Blair Witch" and "The Crazies" than I could count, but I managed to watch it from start to end. See below for full review. This one gave me mixed to negative feelings. It's not a completely miserable film, but it's not one I would immediately recommend to my friends either. I definitely wouldn't pay to see it in a Theater; however, on a rainy night and bored at home, I might watch it for giggles. The first 15 minutes was surprisingly, mildly entertaining, compared to most found-footage films.....although Ryan (the cameraman) apparently has no clue what a "documentary" really is, because that is not what the first half of the film was. It was more like-- "let's **** around with a camera on our camping trip and call it a documentary" kind of film. Reality show is more fitting :) The second half, different story. It becomes obvious right away that the only reason for having the female characters is estrogen value.....Abbey flashes her boobs in the first 3 minutes and Ash (who is only about half as attractive), moons the camera about 10 minutes later. And don't forget about half a dozen F-words to keep things juvenile! It's almost as if the filmmakers put those things in there just to keep us watching past the dreaded first 10 minutes. Way too obvious guys. Things start getting CHEESY as **** when we first hear the creature in the woods......you can actually tell the sound effect was added in post-production because of the audio mix. I understand that this was a low budget production, but I think the audience would rather hear a genuine sound in the woods and not something added later. P.S. The sound is NOTHING like a coyote, and the fact that the characters suggested that is ridiculous. I did like when we first see the "creature," that was setup pretty well. But I hated the characters' interactions that followed. All the sudden after hearing a noise in the woods and seeing what is "probably" just an animal, they all act like the sky is falling. Not convinced, man! I immediately did not like Brett in his role. Not only is he not wanting to be there, but also he doesn't sound very genuine in his lines, especially during his Ryan-rebuking speech close to the 20 minute mark. I'm really glad he went missing first and was killed off. But later on, Ryan, who apparently has anger management issues, starts to get annoying. Too much fabricated drama that doesn't fit in at all. After that, I really started losing interest because the film just became too unrealistic, and the "scary" scenes looked staged. They all get drunk after only one bottle???? Doesn't seem like much alcohol for a bunch of young people who probably drink every week. The stranger with the Vietnam-vet jacket????? I actually laughed, especially when Brett freaks out about his gun....c'mon man, if you don't take a gun into the wilderness, you're unprepared. Shaking the tent? Taken straight out of Blair Witch playbook. It's just too cliché' in my opinion, trying to come up with scares that don't work. The thing in the bush was a good scare, but again, the poorly-chosen sounds ruined the mood. Loved the flesh in the shoe! But I didn't care at all when Ryan left. Around the 45-minute mark, things actually became interesting again. Running through the wood once again brings back the "Blair Witch" theme, but it was fun nevertheless. Loved the dead body! Awesome gore, hell yeah!!!! Around the 50-minute mark, I had a serious WTF moment. Now they bring in some stuff from "The Crazies." (This becomes more apparent later in the movie.) As far as the locations and effects, though, I thought it had pretty good production value. At the 60-minute mark things get cheesy again, and unfortunately we go even further from the "Blair Witch" to "The Crazies." I am not bashing the film for doing that, but there is no originality, and that's what really takes away from its potential. Pregnant lady on the table was pretty epic......more crazy people! And more gore! Lmao Ending wasn't the greatest, it really left a blank for a sequel I hope they never make. But I liked the end credits, the effects were great, and it kept me watching long enough to write down Brett's last name....so I can AVOID every other movie he acts in. With better actors and a more realistic plot, this would've been more watchable. I almost find it very hard to believe that this film was made on the budget that they claim. Maybe if everybody worked for deferred pay, with hopes that this film would make a lot of money at the box office (like Paranormal Activity). Anyways, that's my honest play-by-play review of the film. Take it or leave it. Overall 4/10

You have what starts off as your typical found footage horror movie. Mystery in the woods, a character disappears, lots of screaming and chaos ensues. It's gives you just enough answers to give you a satisfactory ending but ultimately fails to deliver anything special. At least it's not overly long. But the constant screaming and camera flickering in the final 20 minutes or so is a little irritating. If you're watching for the gore and violence, you'll enjoy it a bit. If you want answers to all your questions, you'll be disappointed and have to come up with your own theories. I like to think the creatures were an experiment by Al Gore and is goons to create a gang of manbearpig to take over the woods and eventually the world. So you could look at it in a comedic sort of way like I did. It's worth a one time watch.

If you haven't seen the movie yet, then skip this review because it might contain a spoiler how it's about a wild baboon harassing teens – an amazing, groundbreaking surprise that I bet none of you anticipated; monkeys so rarely get a chance to shine in camcorder flicks, and when they do it's only chimps and gorillas that hog all the glory, so I was pleasantly moved that an ape other than a chimp or gorilla finally got a break.

Though far from me to suggest that it's only about the wild baboon (that btw might also be Sasqwatch, in which case ignore my little diatribe about baboons rarely getting shots at cinema glory). Eventually "Evidence" becomes a zombie movie as well, temporarily nudging the baboon into sub-plot territory. The baboon, not too keen on playing second fiddle and anyway already quite used to being the star of the movie, reappears just to show those silly zombies who's the boss here. From that point on it's basically zombies and the baboon fighting over the right to scare (or kill) the two girls. The girls don't care; they're just happy to scream and run, as that saves them the bother of having to learn actual lines of dialogue.

What I'm saying is: the first part of the movie is "Blair Witch" (i.e. nothing happens, apart from vague threats from somewhere out there), then a wild baboon makes its appearance (making chimps and gorillas all over the world very envious), eventually shredding the male half of the cast into bits, and then the movie finally shows its true colours: just another computer game about a secret military hangar where morally dubious scientific experiments had backfired, turning people into blood-thirsty zombies, while a Nintendo soldier tries to shoot as many monsters as he can. I think every 9 year-old already knows this premise by heart, down to its finest, most moronic/cliché details.

This movie's absolute highlight occurs only 3 minutes into the movie, when the sexy blond (Abigail Richie) flashes her boobs. That was a stop-and-rewind-and-drool-worthy moment, unlike the following 15 minutes which is barely-control-the-urge-to-fast-forward.

I'd rather someone had pointed the camera at her getting naked. That way we'd have a top-notch porn movie instead of this low-notch zombie/baboon film. A naked Abigail getting down and dirty in bed certainly beats watching her pretty head being blown off, mere minutes before the end of this computer game. Why didn't the average-looking brunette get her golova blown to bits?

The girls escape time and time again – on foot – while both their boyfriends got pummeled with ease. Perhaps the baboon is less prone to attacking owners of breasts? Over and over the girls keep entering secret installations, houses, and other property – and yet it takes them ages to finally bump into anyone. After figuring out that the baboon resides outside, i.e. loves the outdoors, why would the girls keep opening doors to get out after they'd finally found a place to hide in? But I keep forgetting that this is merely a computer game.

The premise is what… "we're making a documentary on Brett"? Ridiculous; a poor excuse to send zombie fodder into the woods. They couldn't even bother to come up with a half-way valid excuse for the teens to meet the baboon and the zombies.

If I could get a penny for every time someone says "stop filming!" or "keep filming!", I'd have have enough money to shoot "Avatar 2" (with the blue putzes as the bad guys). It's one of the most annoying clichés of the silly camcorder genre. The writers of these films are always in a dilemma how to solve the very obvious illogicality of the camera rolling at all times, so they desperately seek out new ways to justify it being turned on. In this movie, the camcorder's main raison-d'etre (or raison-de-REC) happens to be that "the camera is the best light we've got right now", at least for a while. Not a bad try, but how about when there IS enough light? Well, then "keep shooting coz we need evidence!" Evidence of the director's incompetence? They sure got plenty of that on tape.

"I don't know why I'm not turning this stupid thing (camera) off," moans the sexy blond. I'll tell you why, honey: because this lame hand-held-camera horror flick wouldn't exist without it, and without the REC button being "on" at all times you'd still be waitressing at the local pub. Their only source of light is the shitty little camcorder? Really?

It's rather useful to film horror films with a camcorder nowadays: 1) it's so much cheaper than capturing everything on film, 2) the audiences love that crap; anything that looks shaky, grainy or unfocused is immediately associated with "CNN-like news realism", and 3) the special-effects department doesn't have to work on full mode because who's going to notice that the ravaged corpse is badly done or that the zombie's make-up is shoddy when only a fraction of a blurry second of the camcorder's precious time is spent on showing it to us? You can always press "pause" though, to check whether the CGI and make-up are up to your desired standard, but then – why bother prolonging this average movie experience.

Every once in a while you come across a jewel.Evidence is one of them.Now don't get me wrong.Its not like your big budget film or your never before filmed idea.The story is pretty simple.We have seen it a thousand times.Yet this one goes a little further.Acting is pretty decent.The sfx are very nice and the pace although a bit slow in the beginning gets frantic after the first 35 mins.It has plenty of scary moments.You will be on edge after the first half.You will be expecting the sudden monster close up ,yet you will bounce of your seat every time !It is not a movie that you'll probably see a second time,but there is a lot of effort and enthusiasm behind it and its worth watching it.I can only imagine what they could do with a bigger budget.I don't rate it any higher not because its bad,but because we have to expect from these people a lot of things in the future.Good job!

Evidence starts off as your typical horror film 4 teenagers camping in creepy woods, but then it all changes creepy noises that are nor human are heard and they will creep you out but then something goes horrible wrong and we are left with an ending that is not only stupid gory and dose not make any sense what's so ever. Evidence could have been so much more we have seen the found footage element to horror flicks before but not with a creature. There is most likely going to be a sequel that will explain more but at the end of the film you will be left with a headache from the shaky camera and not knowing what the hell just happened and why did you just spend 1 hour and 20 minuets if your life watching that. SPOILER!!! The creatures and not even that scary they look like over grown bears to me or maybe again because of the camera we never get a good look at them.

Overall Evidence is stupid in places and a little scary and the beginning but it all goes down hill with a dreadful ending.

Everything started normal. Friends go to somewhere to camping and then whole story has changed. I think they tried to mix Doom, Resident Evil and classic hand cam movies. But it was just a giant disappointment. Don't waste your time. Movie is too dark. Screaming and crying girls all the time and terrible hand camera angles. Zombies look more like patience from asylum. Creatures; some of looks like bear or giant wolf. But with this camera its impossible to understand. And people who came for help, who are they. They came suddenly and worked to try to save girls. Well at least its not satisfying movie for me. No horror. No thriller. And lots of predictable scenes.