The Phoenix Tapes '97

Starts out ok. They made it seem fairly authentic til the first real encounter. Then is falls on it's face rather quickly. Personally, I don't really care what happens to stupid people, so yeah. Lost my interest after the encounter at the RV.

Seems very realistically done. There's even a written nod to Blair thrown in early on.

I initially thought I was about to watch a documentary, being as it was in the Documentary section on Amazon Video. It seemed a little odd to me that they were showing extended footage with no dialogue from a narrator. Once I realized what I was getting myself into I decided to sit back and enjoy the ride. It was different from all other found footage movies I've seen. Well done on the bait and switch!

If Blair witch had half the budget. Huge plot holes and bad acting.

This movie is technically well done, it looks authentic and even tries to cover some of the basic FF genre cliches.

The problem is that it tries to be too authentic. This is why it barely has any comprehensive story and the events that occur are not particularly interesting or scary. It's short, gets somewhat repetitive and overall doesn't feel like an experience, but rather a short YouTube pseudo-FF film. The "father's" acting wasn't great as well.

Can't say I wasted my time (since it's relatively short), but it was essentially unable to share any sort of tension, scare or emotion with me.

I would maybe recommend it to FF genre fans, but there are much better films here to enjoy.