I could not even finish this film, and I've sat through some pretty bad ones.

Within about the first two minutes, i was already sick of the two guys involved and was hoping some ghost would pop in and kill them right then and just put the film out of its misery! Unfortunately, that did not occur.

Granted, there are quite a few bad movies out there in the "found footage" genre, but I can say without hesitation that I was mad at myself for even trying to watch some of this movie. Those are minutes I can never get back and felt annoyed at how wasted they were.

This is just a movie that I'd put in the "never should have been made" genre.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time like I did. I mean I'm an Amazon prime member so it was free to watch, but I felt like giving it one star was too generous. If zero were an option, that would be about right.

Yeah, that's going to be a big pass from here.

I stumbled upon the 2013 horror movie "Hooked Up" here in 2021. I had never heard about it, nor seen it. And with my interest in the horror genre, of course I opted to sit down to watch "Hooked Up" from writers Pablo Larcuen and Eduard Sola.

The movie's cover really oversold the movie by a hundred miles. I mean, the movie's cover looked very interesting and had that mid- to late-1980s feel to it. And I have to say that the cover really caught my attention and made me pick up this 2013 movie.

Well, had I known aforehand that this sort of was a 'found footage' movie, I wouldn't have given it the time of day. I can't simply comprehend the weird fascination with this ridiculous type of subgenre. If I watch a movie, I want to watch something with production quality and something that feels like a studio made movie, not something that my 11 year old son could have helped me film with the family digital video camera and a $5 video editing program.

Sure, the storyline in "Hooked Up" started out okay enough, if you can get past the shoddy camera that is all over the place, more often than not filming at angles that are just painful to watch, as it doesn't show what you want to see. But the storyline quickly falls to pieces once the two Americans reach the house of a local girl's grandfather. Not going to delve further into detail, you just have to watch the movie and suffer like the rest of us, if you want to know more.

The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, taking into consideration that director Pablo Larcuen was left with virtually nothing useful or worthwhile from the inferior script and storyline.

But it was the dubious camera work and the laughable feel of it being a 'found rubbish' movie that just killed it off entirely for me. I loathe this genre of movie.

Now, I can't and won't recommend anyone taking time out of their lives to sit down and watch "Hooked Up". Some of us suffered through this horrible ordeal so you don't have to. Trust me.

My rating of "Hooked Up" lands on a more than generous two out of ten stars.

Another European horror film, very low budget. This is one of those "found-footage" movies that, unfortunately, have been used a lot by amateur directors, with little money for great productions and good cameras. The result is another suffering film, with a deeply mediocre cinematography. Is it necessary to shake so much? Okay, the movie is "found-footage", but we still have to be able to figure out something about what's being "filmed" (I put quotation marks because we cannot really call it filming),did you know that? The plot is basic: two idiot Americans (always the Americans) are vacationing in Barcelona, in search of the normal things that American teens want to find in Europe: a lot of cheap fun, girls willing to get laid easily, loud music and other amusements for Americans with an IQ below 40. But what looked like a lucky night with two naughty girls will end badly, when a bloodthirsty ghost appears to shred the whole world.

The movie takes a while to get where the action really starts and this is annoying, but then we end up missing that, because the rest of the film is a succession of racing, falling, bleeding... all mixed with the usual sound attempts to scare the audience and a lot of fake blood splashing around. Unfortunately, when the film begins with these things, we're already so bored and so tired of these two idiots that we just want them to die quickly for the movie to end.