Sam and Colby: The Legends of the Paranormal

Listen I normally don't do these or any reviews for that matter. My family are all fans especially my oldest. We drove 4hrs round trip to see the movie and imo well worth it . Just the seeing the excitement on my oldest face alone was worth it. I feel people are being way to harsh on Sam and Colby I feel they did amazing and the "AI" graphics that were thrown in i felt creatively helped tell the story they were conveying . That takes time ,thought and effort so to call it "lazy" is just rude . I personally feel the meaning and journey was on a deeper , spiritual level that some just can't grasp .

I've been watching Sam and Colby for almost 10 years now, so of course i'm going to love anything they put out. Although they had plenty of hilarious cheesy jokes, this film was leaning more on the serious side than their normal content. It had an overall deeper meaning and was focusing more on the historical aspect of things and sadly I did notice not many people in the theater were as invested as I was due to it mostly being a younger audience. Some people were on their phones, some people were talking the whole time, and there was even someone sleeping next to me. So if you have a short attention span and you're not that into the historical side of the paranormal, maybe this movie isn't for you. I personally enjoyed the movie and felt very moved. I have always viewed Sam and Colby to be very talented and genuine people when it comes to creating content, so I can't wait to see what else they accomplish/create. Great job guys!

Firstly, for context I'm a huge paranormal enthusiast and consume lots of content regarding it.

I've been following Sam and Colby and was very excited about this movie, since it touched on so many paranormal topics, plus the location has a vast history and some interesting correlation to other locations.

Well, watching the movie I was severely disappointed for a few reasons and I can list them:

1) Complete lack of research - They went to the location, didn't know anything about the place, didn't try to get more information (which is so wildly available) and based all their "findings" on a few pieces of information that were provided by the current owner.

Ex: How Mt. Wilson and Skinwalker Ranch correlate in activity so much so that Robert Bigelow owned both at the same time and conducted studies (along with the government). That would make the movie WAY more enticing and show research.

2) Utter disrespect towards Native American culture and beliefs - They were aware of the native's beliefs about talking about skinwalkers and proceeded to do so over and over. Plus, disturbed the land, mimicked native rituals ... while not having ANY Native Americans in the movie providing guidance or information.

3) The overall "movie" felt like a poorly made Youtube video, with the AI generated imagery, the unfocused camera shots, the bad editing and etc. It felt lazy, repetitive and unprepared.

You can argue that they didn't have the "budget" for a film, but if you watch their 25x25 series on Youtube that aired 3 years ago, their production and editing level for that was INFINITELY better and way more movie worth it than this. There's just no justification for how poorly made it was.

I could go on and on about how this movie wasn't IT.

Should just be a Youtube special and definitely still be a bad Youtube video.

I'm a Sam and Colby fan but this lazy and disrespectful content is not it and it's not worth a movie ticket.

I thought it was similar to all their youtube videos. Most of the 1 star reviews are very over dramatic. Yes there were some ai images and clips but not any more then they put in all their normal videos. Going off the reviews I was expecting to see the ai more than Sam and Colby themselves which obviously was not true. Also some people believed that they were disrespecting the land and native americans which i did not think happened. Yes they did cause that little explosion which is a bit disrespectful but they were trying to get attention and didn't have rude intentions. It wasn't on the scarier side like most of their videos but if you're actually a fan you'll enjoy it.

If one goes to see this film without first being initiated as a fan of Sam & Colby's paranormal YouTube videos, one will get lost and not understand that Sam & Colby take this Paranormal stuff very seriously, despite them often trying to brush off scary moments with humor. And having both been through a lot and come through the other end, dealing with attachments and demonic entities, for their hardcore fans this is a fun 90 minute romp. For the uninitated into Sam & Colby's world, I'd suggest watching their investigation of The Conjuring house to get a taste of what they're doing before seeing their first feature length film, but I believe their fans wiill enjoy or people who find this paranormal stuff engaging, whether they believe it all of it or not, for there are sacred places that have energy.,