Hooked Up

Another European horror film, very low budget. This is one of those "found-footage" movies that, unfortunately, have been used a lot by amateur directors, with little money for great productions and good cameras. The result is another suffering film, with a deeply mediocre cinematography. Is it necessary to shake so much? Okay, the movie is "found-footage", but we still have to be able to figure out something about what's being "filmed" (I put quotation marks because we cannot really call it filming), did you know that? The plot is basic: two idiot Americans (always the Americans) are vacationing in Barcelona, in search of the normal things that American teens want to find in Europe: a lot of cheap fun, girls willing to get laid easily, loud music and other amusements for Americans with an IQ below 40. But what looked like a lucky night with two naughty girls will end badly, when a bloodthirsty ghost appears to shred the whole world.

The movie takes a while to get where the action really starts and this is annoying, but then we end up missing that, because the rest of the film is a succession of racing, falling, bleeding... all mixed with the usual sound attempts to scare the audience and a lot of fake blood splashing around. Unfortunately, when the film begins with these things, we're already so bored and so tired of these two idiots that we just want them to die quickly for the movie to end.

Trying to get past a breakup, a pair of friends head to Barcelona to find women, and when they take a pair back to their house they end realizing that they've become involved with a dangerous demonic force intent on killing them forcing the pair to try to get out of the house alive.

This was a decidedly decent if wholly underwhelming found-footage effort. One of the more enjoyable elements here is the great work it does at presenting a rather intriguing and potentially suspenseful situation. The idea of taking the rather familiar route of the girl being some kind of demonic spirit creature at the end of the night means that the clichéd set-up means that there's plenty of fun to come from the creature going out to kill them as that kind of action is what sells this. There's plenty of brutal, gory bloodletting that emerges from this kind of action as all kinds of encounters and confrontations with the demon spirit makes for an enjoyable time. Along with the great amount of fun that comes from how it works out the final twist at the end, which comes off with a slight bit of originality and does end this on a somewhat enjoyable note. While these here make this one watchable enough, there's a lot of problems with this one. The biggest problem here is the fact that there's just not a whole lot of interest in the first half here as we're continually around this annoying and really irritating group of friends who are really not worth spending time with. The fact that they continually rag on each, push each other into situations they don't want to be involved in and are just basically not that interesting with all the dude-bro comments doesn't make for an endearing or enjoyable start to this one. Not only that, the film's entry into the particular found-footage genre means that very little of the film makes any sense at all, from how the film's battery life is able to stay lit the entire seventy some-odd minute running time while having the bright flashlight feature enabled the entire time to why the pair are continually wanting to record the matters of what might be their last moments alive instead of trying to save themselves or wondering why the film is able to be recorded in the first place with the indestructible nature of the camera being able to stay on whenever it crashes to the ground or gets thrown into the wall with the videographer. None of these efforts are all that intriguing and really just make this one part of the genre which fall into all the usual problems here and that doesn't make for a fun time here. Likewise, the other big problem here is the fact that there are so many moments of questionable decision-making that continually puts them in danger rather than being realistically played out to try to get them out of the house, and for the most part it's what really holds this one back.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and excessive drinking.

I couldn't make it past 20 minutes. Terrible camera work, hideous actors (the main camera guy every time I saw him I looked away from the tv), and acting worse than a community theater. I can see now why they didn't have a preview on it for Amazon. It was like watching two 3 year olds in two unattractive 30 year old bodies

I could not even finish this film, and I've sat through some pretty bad ones.

Within about the first two minutes, i was already sick of the two guys involved and was hoping some ghost would pop in and kill them right then and just put the film out of its misery! Unfortunately, that did not occur.

Granted, there are quite a few bad movies out there in the "found footage" genre, but I can say without hesitation that I was mad at myself for even trying to watch some of this movie. Those are minutes I can never get back and felt annoyed at how wasted they were.

This is just a movie that I'd put in the "never should have been made" genre.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time like I did. I mean I'm an Amazon prime member so it was free to watch, but I felt like giving it one star was too generous. If zero were an option, that would be about right.

Another one those shaky cam movies

This time it's about two guys , who end up going out for night and get drunk

they each hook up but then end up going to one of girls house That girl as one hell of dead secret !

This movie takes some time to get going ,

When it's dose there a lot running around and arm flapping going with one guy

There was were some decent bloody moments in this movie , which I enjoyed.

This was very odd and strange movie , I enjoyed some of stuff

So I am going to give it 5 out of 10

5 out of 10