Absence

Within the first 5 minutes you'll know if you'll like this film or not. It's obviously a found footage film, which doesn't automatically make it terrible, but we can rule out anything over 8 stars right off.

So I tried to keep watching and it seems like the camera is constantly at arms length away from the actors, and this gets annoying really quick. It reminds me of people taking selfies and such. The acting soon gets out of control, over the top and I had to skip ahead. After a few skips I'm half way through the movie and my field of view is consistently too close. This is too much.

I came here to see if anyone else noticed this or if it was just me, but I found out the spoilers and glad I didn't finish it. Zero ending? Ahhh just terrible through and through then.

Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.

The movie starts out with some of the most wild shaky cam ever put on film, and then turns into an amateur documentary complete with the wonderful "found footage" style of camera-work. Each time this technique is used it gets more and more irritating, and by 2013 the creators of these films should know better than to use it unless they have a darn good reason.

Perhaps this film is called "Absence" because it has an almost complete absence of horror elements. Most of the movie is just footage of flirting, drinking, hanging out. Maybe ten minutes really involves anything scary or supernatural. One could argue this effectively builds the characters, but it does this at the expense of any narrative a viewer would give a hoot about.

I hated Blair Witch. I totally hate found footage movies. It' s the absolute bottom of the barrel for movie plots. Just plain lazy.

If anybody EVER sat there, filming everything when catastrophic events were happening, I'd take their camera away from them, put it in a pillow case and beat them to death with it.

Such an unreal plot, inane, weak, and lame.

Here's EVERY found footage movie...(Screaming)...(Shaking camera)...running...grunts....(more shaking camera).

Stop it already.

Don't be lazy. Put some effort into the movie for Pete's sake.

Here's an idea. If you can't think of a good story, can't find people who can act, and have only $5 for a budget DON'T MAKE A MOVIE.

Everyone is saying this movie is so good. I watched it because of the reviews. This was one of the worst movies I habe ever seen. It was not scary and the ending was stupid. I can't believe I wasted my time.

Was when they finally dispatched of the annoying brother who possessed zero redeemable traits what-so-ever. This movie would have been better had this nonsense not become part of the plot, and does more against this quality of this movie than to help it.

Add that less of the jumpy out of focus hand held found footage would have improved this flick tremendously. Because all that bouncing around pointing at the ground does not make a good movie.

And I agree with other reviews when it comes to the baby never being part of this flick, other than it was missing at the beginning. And the PSA regarding fetal abductions, nothing more is examined about the missing baby.

On another note, I found it far fetched that any woman would find that weak useless brother worthwhile investing any time into.