I watched the trailer for this and then saw the rating on here, but couldn't really make sense of it.
Cause the trailer made it look like a pretty darn good movie for a found footage flick.
But while watching it it becomes painfully clear why the rating is the way it is.
No sense for tact and sub-par acting and characters that aren't particularly likable.
Starts off with a massive explosion in a building that lit up the skies, and what does our 'heroes' in the movie do? Well they throw a party of course!
There's countless of illogical acts performed by the characters through-out the movie, I will not disclose any more of them as that would kind of spoil it if you still chose to watch it.
But yeah put your brain on ice for this one if you necessarily feel like you should watch it, although I'm not sure that will work.
Nothing more to say about it really.
Hungerford
2014
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
Hungerford
2014
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
Keywords: found footageescapegangattack
Plot summary
Cowen Rosewell lives with a small group of old friends in a scruffy flat in a small English town. Like many teens leaving school in 2014, there are few prospects or opportunities for people like Cowen so he has enrolled on a BTEC media course as a way of passing the time. His first assignment is to record everything during a week of his life. At first Cowen dismisses the random acts of violence he witnesses as the business as usual in a small English town. However, when one of his best friends is savagely attacked by a stranger, and in defending her they kill her assailant, the inexplicably serious nature of the dead assailant's injuries alert them to a more disturbing reality. As events escalate, Cowen and his friends discover that the town has come under a mysterious malign influence which is somehow controlling organized gangs who are rounding people up and taking them to a nearby factory. The friends hide, hoping to escape, but their sanctuary is discovered and overrun. Finally Cowen must make his way alone to the factory in search of his loved ones. The evil force that awaits him there has implications not just for Cowen, but for the entire world.
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Found footage that I'd preferred to stayed lost tbh.
Good effort but...
Can I just say that I fully understand that this was probably filmed on a micro-budget and I applaud the efforts of the team to get a finished project on to the screen. Also you can't help but admire the passion and commitment shown by these youngsters, they achieved something that is very hard to do.
That being said this is not a good film. Sorry but I have to be honest. The dialogue is badly written, the acting is sub-par and the plot is full of holes and terrible, unbelievably stupid decisions, for example the car. Plot spoilers coming.
Phil sneaks off to get the car in order to redeem herself after putting everyone's lives in danger. In doing this she causes her friends to go looking for her, putting everyone's lives in danger. Dumb idea. Both Phil and Cowen planned to go alone to get the car, early in the morning. Wouldn't it make more sense for EVERYONE to go for the car, providing some safety in numbers and, when they reach the car, they can just drive off without needing to go back to the flat? But, my biggest issue with this scene was that Hungerford wasn't full of abandoned cars. Are you saying that not a single one could be stolen? That, in the emergency, they couldn't just take a walk and find a house with a car in the drive, break into the house to find the keys and just steal the car? They were literally walking past parked cars and vans on the way to find the car at the council offices.
That's just one example, there are others. So, can I recommend this film? As a film, not really. But as an example of what some young adults can do with some determination and a camera, yes I can.
Hunger for ... less
Found footage and all that. Ah well, I mean there are worse movies out there and I guess if you accept the way this was shot and the fact it does not have a big budget (CGI looks ... well computer generated! I know - duh! But you get where I'm heading with this).
So it begins rather quickly, the inciting incident ... at least that is the notion we get after a couple of minutes ... but then it does take it's time to get going. And we get annoying people doing crazy (dare I say stupid?) stuff. Anyway, there is action, there is horror and there is blood. But there is also a lot of boring bits throughout and a lot of cliches ...