The Fear Footage 2: Curse of the Tape

Not an academy award winning movie, but not understanding the overly harsh negative reviews. Also it them read as being personal or written by people who don't enjoy found footage. If you wanted the first movie, and don't like found footage as so many others here have stated, then I would not reccomend this for you. Otherwise, it was entertaining, and very low budget. I don't consider low budget to be an insult though. Most of the interesting movies I've seen lately are low budget and this one is no different. Better than the first one. Only didn't give more stars because it really isn't that phenomenal. Just a good movie to pass the time.

A couple of years ago I watched a movie called the Fear Footage and it became a bit of a running joke between me and my friends. We'd say that the movie scale was Fear Footage to Shawshank Redemption, that it was the movie all bad movies should be measured by and made the Sharknado films look like the Godfather series.

Well because it became such a big deal for us we all tracked their being a sequel and laughed in awe at the trailer, when my man pal Jason bought it for me as a joke present we excitedly sat together to watch this inevitable masterpiece and laughed from start to finish.

Like the first one it looks awful, the whole thing is so amateurish it makes Birdemic look like it had Hollywood level special effects teams. The sound guy must have fallen asleep because there was no consistency there and the story? Well I'm being nice saying there is one, this is an unintentional comedy almost like a two Ronnies sketch show but with bad lighting.

Is it worse than the first? I'd say they're on the same level and arguably the same film really. I'd like to thank Ricky Umberger and the whole team behind these movies, I haven't laughed this hard in years.

Keep your awful student looking films coming!

The Fear Footage was an unexpectedly fun ride. It renewed my waning interest in the found footage subgenre. The sequel, as is the case with many sequels, does not live up to the original. This one is not an anthology, and it falls prey to the trap that many found footage films fall into: a loooooooong buildup. The tension was the key to the original's success - there wasn't a single wasted minute. We waste many minutes here. Decent once it finally gets going, but that isn't enough to make it recommendable.

Fear Footage (2018) is certainly not the kind of movie you'd expect to get a sequel. I stand by this due to its budget, its obscurity and that it was 17 shades of terrible. Easily the worst movie of that year it was a cringe worthy attempt at a horror that had me wincing face palming and angry that I'd given it my time. For some reason I gave this second attempt a try and once again I'm angry that I did and even more angry at the creators for thinking this constitutes as a horror movie. Badly made, badly written, badly acted, there really is no excuse for this. For the love of everything that's good in the world lets not see a third part.

I watched the first movie shortly after it came out, I ended my review with the following.

"Please don't make a sequel or anything else unless you're going to go to film school and more to the point stop drowning in shill reviews."

Yes I hated it, truly hated it and was angry that I'd just watched yet another copy and paste clone found footage movie like hundreds of others. It frustrates me that people don't try with new ideas and essentially just remake other peoples films which were bad in the first place. Curse of the tape makes all the same mistakes, of both the first movie and the hundreds of other ghost/haunting found footage movies. It's just SO bad, SO unoriginal and SO much of a slap in the face to movie fans who expect a degree of originality and flair to the films they watch.

If I could rate it lower I would, this is a 0.3 at best. I said it last time and I'll say it again, "Please don't make a sequel or anything else unless you're going to go to film school". At least this one hasn't been drowned in shill reviews all with the same wording and fresh accounts YET.