Hungerford

I had hopes for this B grade movie but after watching 30 minutes or so I realized I was to generous with the "B Grade".

Bad acting, bad actors, especially the lead actor who was so over dramatic in some scenes it bordered on sickening.

Bad direction thorough out the film especially the car crash scene, and way to many more to mention.

The director who I just found out is the lead actor as well (That answers a lot of questions) should really look for another line of work as Directing is definitely not his strong suit.

I could keep going with what is wrong with this film but it's really not even worth my time complaining about it.

It's really pretty good considering it's a small independent film, but there are some obvious issues that come from being a small independent film. More to the point, the film starts to get lazy towards the end, asking for far too much latitude and willing suspension of disbelief.

So I'll be the first to say that most found footage movies are stinkers. It has become the genre that film makers go to when they don't have a very original idea and want to make a film for a low amount of money. I tend to avoid them but "Hungerford" caught my eye with it's trailer and I am very glad I checked it out.

The story starts off like most found footage flicks, we are introduced to our main characters and are given an explanation as to why they are filming everything, in this case it is a class project. I quickly noticed a difference in the characters in this flick as opposed to most films in this genre, they actually seemed like real people. It wasn't your usual group of beautiful people with wooden personalities, this actually felt like a real group of friends and it made me actually care about what happened to them.

The action gets going very fast, and once it does the movie does not let up until the credits start rolling. Unlike a lot of other found footage films, a good chunk of this film takes place during the day which means they do not hold back on showing you everything that is going on. There are not a lot of camera cutaways or shaky running when things get going, you get a front seat view to all the bloody action. The effects were actually pretty well done considering the movies budget.

The film does have its flaws as well. There were some moments where the dialogue was very cheesy and felt unrealistic. Plus I felt like the last 1/4th of the movie felt a little rushed.

Overall though this was a pretty fun movie. It never dragged or felt dull and it didn't feel like another generic mediocre found footage cash in. I recommend giving it a go.

7/10

With the skin of my teeth I did finish this movie. Well It couldn't be that bad when the IMDB is giving a 3.8 right? Well, yeah, it did... For at least I did try to break off watching and every time (just in time), it got be back into it.

The characters are boring, the story slow and incoherent. It's hard to follow what is going on. I assume these youngsters are trying to survive in an alien (kind of zombie) outbreak/attack.

Well, the 3.8 is well deserved and I think the makers (director and producer) should be fined for making this movie. Most of us want to be compensated for the lost time watching this.

I find a 4 more than deserved for this piece of art (and I am generous) and hope the ones responsible will never ever make such a horrid movie again.

It cant be the bad.... yes it was

I stumbled upon "Hungerford" on Netflix. I had never heard about the movie prior to finding it here, and nor did I know what it was about. I found it under the horror section, and thus I decided to give it a chance.

I shouldn't have.

Boy, this was a massive waste of time and effort. I managed to endure a staggering 45 minutes of the ordeal that is "Hungerford" before I gave up from several reasons.

First of all, the movie was just blatantly and downright boring. There was nothing interesting in it for me, so my interest was quickly waning.

Secondly, it is a handheld video camera recorded movie, one of those "documentary"-like movies. You know, the type of movie you could make yourself with your own digital video camera. That particular type of movie never appealed to me, because I want to watch a movie with a proper production value and a certain level of quality to it, not something I myself could go and make with my friends.

Thirdly, the storyline was just boring and uneventful, and it didn't really help that the characters were essentially one and the same. You didn't know where one character ended and the other began. Which meant that you don't care about them in any way.

And what was up with the oversized bugs that was controlling people? Interesting? Well, perhaps. I will give them that much. But was it something that helped to improve on the movie? Hardly so.

I have no intention of returning to watch the rest of "Hungerford" because it just had nothing to offer me in any way.