The Fear Footage 2: Curse of the Tape

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.

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!

Dumbest (and most annoying) lead character imaginable, terrible acting, infuriating plot contrivances. BUT...this film has a lot of jump scares, and it does them quite well. Yes, I know the jump scare is the lowest common horror denominator, but I still have to give some credit for timing and creepy visuals. Even as I sat rolling my eyes at the stupidity of everything, the next jump scare would still jolt me right out of my seat. I'd watch it again just for that. And while the cheap thrill is not my end game, you have to kiss a lot of horror movie frogs to find one you *might* go out with once just for coffee. So I'm semi-satisfied when an otherwise crappy movie pulls off one or two decent scenes, and this one definitely does that.

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.

I rented this because across social media I'd seen the movie advertised as scary, creepy and I'll have trouble sleeping afterwards. Having now seen it I can tell you those words don't describe the film at all, words that do are boring unoriginal and feeble. It's as scary as Zombeaver and as well made as Birdemic!