Last Radio Call

I was expecting to turn off after about 3 minutes, but it had a really well done opening scene, so I stayed along for (some of) the ride.

Good production, direction & story, unfortunately for this promising low budgeter, it was let down badly by most if not all of the actors. They're very 'just out of part time drama classes' & they still take classes at the weekend. They do their best, but they're just not cooked yet & it's all rather wooden. The director didn't seem to make them comfortable with their lines, or maybe he just needed to get them all a bit drunk.

After the initial promise, it all goes wrong at around the 30 minute mark & that was my last call.

Not the best, but certainly not the worst "found footage" movie I've seen.

It's not filled with annoying teenagers arguing on a road trip.

It's not a group of people making stupid decisions.

The acting is fine. Some good jump scares. Don't get me wrong it's not "Grave Encounters". But I enjoyed it.

Only an hour and Fifteen minutes long, so quite quickly to the scary bits. If you really can't stand found footage films, obviously it's not going to be for you.

But if you like the genre , give it a go. And watch it with the lights out!

This was hyped up on social media, but I still jumped in pretty blind as to what it was about. Was surprised to see Sarah Froelich, from noise band Consumer Electronics, as the lead here. A band that I enjoy. Last Radio Call started out promising, but soon started showing the usual found footage horror clichés of jump scares (that didn't work), as well as good but over the top sound design, and the usual shaky cam with static and glitches. 20 minutes in and a ghost girl looks up and screams at the camera. That was enough for me.

A cop answers a call at the spookiest hospital in the whole USA. His wife gets his body cam tapes and tries to find out what happened to him because he's gone missing. Nobody, including the force, will help her or even talk to her. As much as I love FF this one is just ok. The wife hires a film maker to document her search for answers, but things don't go well for her.

Another super low budget found footage movie with a predictable script and ending. There are a couple of jump scares but the majority of the movie takes place in the same set piece at the abandoned hospital and that gets old really quick. I thank the makers for the short run time, like 1 hour and 15 minutes, instead of torturing us for a full two hours.

Not even a good drinking movie. There is simply not much there to enjoy.