Found footage horror that plays up the angle of being real footage. This tape (titled 'Blackwood evil') which was supposedly missing since 2000. Mysteriously is delivered to the sunrise Texas TV station. Obviously riding the coattails of "The Blair Witch Project". Only made the following year. Somewhat authentic with its shot-on-video quality and interesting backstory of its haunted house - on the eerie black lands of Texas. Four people; a reporter, cameraman, psychic and asshole land owner all meet up there on December 31st, 1999 for a couple of hours. However the interest begins to waive once the action takes place at the house with an hour worth of languid set-up. Mostly of back and forth bickering and a giggling reporter who constantly likes the sound of her own voice. The last 20 minutes are filled with weak, and limited supernatural occurrences, confusion, hysteria and baffling character decisions. Making it a frustrating, rather then spooky atmospheric viewing.
Blackwood Evil
2000
Action / Drama / Horror
Blackwood Evil
2000
Action / Drama / Horror
Keywords: found footagevhs
Plot summary
On December 31, 1999, four people entered a house located in the Blacklands of Texas to investigate supposed supernatural activity. They were never seen alive again. Two months later a video tape labeled with only the title "Blackwood Evil" was delivered to WBWE television in Sunrise, Texas. It chronicles the last hours in the lives of the four investigators as unseen demons take them one by one.
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Well it had a promising start.
Horrible, horrible movie.
Constant repetitive yelling throughout the entire thing. Gave me a headache. The main woman, the reporter, reading her lines from a piece of paper as their documentary is being filmed. It was ridiculous. I wanted the owner of the property to die five min after meeting him. Nothing but yelling and screaming at everyone until the final ten min. Then they all die. That's it. Skip this one. Your life will be better for it.
Not a good movie.
The worst thing about this movie is the lead woman. She's a manipulative, immature, passive-aggressive, unprofessional, and under rehearsed character. She presents her lines for the "documentary" portion of the "movie" like a high schooler who just threw their presentation together at lunchtime. She badgers the antagonistic property owner in a really just annoying way. He somehow comes across as more likeable than her and I don't think that's what they were going for.
All issues aside with choppy storytelling, terrible sound quality, and noooothing happening for most of the movie and when things did happen, it mostly made no sense, I wanted a ghost to jump out and slap that lady so bad.
Gave it 2 stars because I did watch until the end so there's that.