thrax-23316
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This merits about 2 stars, but due to the number of high-ranking fake reviews, I'm knocking this down to 1 star. There is absolutely nothing here that you haven't seen done a zillion times before.
The premise is the standard, "We're doing a documentary about people who have disappeared in the woods and, oh, there's a story about a witch." As is the norm for witch-in-the-woods found footage horror films, there's no backstory / lore to speak of and no real scares -- just the standard grab-somebody-from-off-screen jump scares and let's-cover-somebody-in-a-bed-sheet-and-hope-it-looks-scary nonsense.
Essentially this kind of found footage horror movie and this one in particular is little better than a class exercise for aspiring student film makers.
The premise is the standard, "We're doing a documentary about people who have disappeared in the woods and, oh, there's a story about a witch." As is the norm for witch-in-the-woods found footage horror films, there's no backstory / lore to speak of and no real scares -- just the standard grab-somebody-from-off-screen jump scares and let's-cover-somebody-in-a-bed-sheet-and-hope-it-looks-scary nonsense.
Essentially this kind of found footage horror movie and this one in particular is little better than a class exercise for aspiring student film makers.
This particular documentary is an examination of the challenges that the Cambrian Explosion presents to Darwinism evolution. However in the last 15 minutes, what bore the appearance of a serious scientific examination of the issue gives way to Creationists pushing the discredited non-scientific idea of Intelligent Design as the apparent explanation of the mystery. This is an extremely infuriating deception, a dissemination of Creationist propaganda.
A few red flags in the film include some mention that paleontologists don't expect to find much new in the fossil record, that the fossil record is essentially complete -- we know for a fact that it isn't -- and that there is no satisfactory reason why the fossil record should be sketchy below the Cambrian -- there are explanations for this too. There are no attempts whatsoever to talk about the myriad transitionary species that exist in later years that support Darwinism evolution, only an assertion that no transitionary forms exist for the Cambrian species, that the only explanation for the apparent "top down" view of Cambrian fauna is purposeful creation. A big focus is on the supposed unlikelihood of mutation and natural selection accounting for the variety of Cambrian life in the believed timeframe -- again, science has addressed these challenges elsewhere. Even the assertion that the body plan of organisms is not determined by DNA has been challenged.
It's worth noting that this film features Stephen C. Meyer, co-author of pseudoscience book Explore Evolution and Discovery Institute member. Discovery Institute has had prominently promoted "teaching the controversy" about evolution.
If you have a serious interest in science, don't be deceived into watching this piece of Creationist propaganda.
A few red flags in the film include some mention that paleontologists don't expect to find much new in the fossil record, that the fossil record is essentially complete -- we know for a fact that it isn't -- and that there is no satisfactory reason why the fossil record should be sketchy below the Cambrian -- there are explanations for this too. There are no attempts whatsoever to talk about the myriad transitionary species that exist in later years that support Darwinism evolution, only an assertion that no transitionary forms exist for the Cambrian species, that the only explanation for the apparent "top down" view of Cambrian fauna is purposeful creation. A big focus is on the supposed unlikelihood of mutation and natural selection accounting for the variety of Cambrian life in the believed timeframe -- again, science has addressed these challenges elsewhere. Even the assertion that the body plan of organisms is not determined by DNA has been challenged.
It's worth noting that this film features Stephen C. Meyer, co-author of pseudoscience book Explore Evolution and Discovery Institute member. Discovery Institute has had prominently promoted "teaching the controversy" about evolution.
If you have a serious interest in science, don't be deceived into watching this piece of Creationist propaganda.