There's Something in the Shadows

I have to admit that I was initially lured in by this movie's cover, as it had that mid-1980s horror movie thing going on. Sure, I hadn't even heard about "There's Something in the Shadows" when I sat down to watch it.

And had I known that this was a found footage movie, then I wouldn't even have given it the time of day. But as I started to watch the movie, I actually stuck with it to the end, as I wanted to see the creature or creatures in the forest.

But guess what? You don't even get a glimpse of it, so I want to thank writer and director John Williams for wasting my time on every level.

Not only was this movie one of those lousy found footage movies, and I loathe those movies with a vengeance. Especially when the camera is shoddy and all over the place. And boy, was it all over the place and out out focus often in this movie. But even worse is when a found footage movie offers nothing entertaining, enjoyable and watchable.

And John Williams's "There's Something in the Shadows" was one such movie. So do yourself a favor and skip on this atrocious hideous heap of dung that portrays itself as a movie. "There's Something in the Shadows" is seriously one of the worst movies that I have ever stumbled upon.

The acting in the movie, if you can call it that, was dubious and questionable. So not even the actors in the movie could manage to do much of anything to even just lift the movie a bit.

The total lack of granting the audience a view of whatever it was supposed to be out there in the woods was just simply making a fool of the people that sit down to watch this garbage.

"There's Something in the Shadows" is what happens when you have a bunch of guys get together one evening for drinking alcohol, and one of them pitches a ludicrous idea for a movie born out of drunken stupor. And the next day the guys are in the woods with their Go-Pro cameras and handheld DV cameras shooting a movie, without the sense of a proper script, characters, dialogue or direction of where to take the movie.

My rating of "There's Something in the Shadows" lands on a one out of ten stars, as I can't rate it lower. This is seriously among the top three of worst movies I have ever stumbled upon.

Apart from wasting 70% of the film on guys chatting in the woods, the film was starting to go somewhere until the last 15 min. Even with no budget, they could have done so much more to make it effective. Plus they tried very hard not to be able to show what was stalking them when basically everyone has a camera. The worst of the amateur hour filmmaking was the finale scene sequence. Made no sense and was completely stupid.

No more found footage. No more idiots wandering the woods. No more lousy actors improvising conversation. No more films made with zero budget. No more films with monsters you don't even see because they couldn't afford even a cheap Halloween costume.

Just stop.

This film brings absolutely nothing new to the table. It feels incredibly cheap and amateurish throughout. It's people in the woods and they hear things in the night. They film the darkness over and over again. Some of them start missing. They bicker. And then it's over.

If you want to make a Blair Witch clone, you better come up with a new twist or some way to make people want to suspend disbelief. There was never a moment when I wanted to imagine this was happening for real. I was watching idiots improvise a movie.

When you have no story, no plot and no idea where a movie is going I guess this what you get. At least we got to see some guys camping. This movie has completely nothing, bigboot, really? Grasping for straws.

The scene where the guy who shouts "I've found the biscuits" is brushing his teeth for what feels like forever is, intentionally or not, a great comedic moment.