Hooked Up

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

Firstly this is from the director of Orphan, a brilliant film. This one isn't.

Annoying and unbelievable camera work. This guy seems to have a camcirder (not phone) glued to his forehead all the time, with an amazing battery life.

Average story,, plenty of gore in second half, moments of gratuitous clips thrown in.

I wish there was an Orphan sequel.

A found footage filmed on an iPhone but it still looked like shaky hand cam too me. This one has two friends going to Barcelona with a sole purpose to get laid. They meet a woman who takes them back to her place only to be trapped and hunted by the woman who turns demonic.

This is one of those annoying found footages that makes you angry with everybody freaking out and the camera never staying still. A girl gets her foot stuck in a bear trap so the one friend is trying to open it but struggles so instead of the other friend dropping the camera to help he just keeps filming.

It seemed like a Hostel meets Night Of The Demons but not of that calibre. You might want to skip this one.

HOOKED UP is a found footage horror movie which tells the story of two young American men who travel to Barcelona, mainly to help one of them overcome a painful breakup. There, they meet a couple girls with whom they hook up, and then trouble begins for them that is way beyond what they could have imagined.

This movie is bound to turn off a lot of people right from the start. It opens with a scene featuring a character who vomits into a toilet that looks like the actor really is vomiting. One main character is annoyingly obnoxious, the other annoyingly whiny. There is quite a bit of locker room-like talk about the purpose of the trip, and so on. In short, there is a lot of crudeness in this movie.

If, by the time the characters have hooked up, you are not sufficiently offended to stop watching, then you will be treated to an extended fast-paced and high-energy cat-and-mouse game inside an old barricaded building for the remainder of the running time.

I believe the secret to enjoying something like this is to regard it not as a movie experience, but as a thrill ride. The first-person perspective makes it easy to do so; just sit back, forget about character development (though there are character arcs, in fact they go in opposite directions for the two protagonists), plot (though there is at least the outline of a plot which connects present events to the past) or other formalities and take it all in as if you were right there.

Not everyone can do this, but if you can, you will likely find the movie to be a lot of fun.

I love fast-paced found footage horror movies, so this was right up my alley. A few of the scenes reminded me of REC (2007) which, incidentally, is also set in Barcelona. However that work has a much higher caliber than this, in fact I consider it to be possibly the best found footage horror movie ever made.

A thematically similar film is HOSTEL (2005), but the basic plot outline reminds me of DASHCAM (2021) which also involves a fast-paced bonkers cat and mouse game involving at least one exceedingly obnoxious character for the majority of its short duration.

Given the movie's crudeness and lack of ambition to be much more than a thrill ride, it is not surprising that it got heavily panned.

One issue I'd like to address is the quality of the production design/cinematography. It seems to me that those who have criticized it for being amateurish have not seen very many found footage films. Having seen over 150 of these, I can confidently say that the movie is well above average for this genre in respect to both.

So, if you can get past the crudeness and turn your brain off while watching, you might find this quite enjoyable.

The story is a tightly woven blend of American horrors abroad and urban legend that mixes xenophobia with a baser celebration of the macabre surrounding ghost girl hook-ups that has evolved from the modern urban legend field. Although I wrestled with the film's framing around the found footage style to tell this pretty cool story, I succumbed to the fact that it is that basic irritant I have with pretty much all found footage films-"would, given the circumstances of such a horrific series of events, would a person realistically continue to hold on to the camera to continue videoing the events?" Especially when the story unfolds chronologically without breaks.

Aside from the "found footage" issue I have, generally, I enjoyed many aspects of "Hooked Up". I found the acting to be believable, the premise plausible, and the emotion genuine. There are a few moments when the dialog isn't delivered quite as convincingly as I am sure the director and story hopes for, but for the most part the drama, suspense and energy is alive in "Hooked Up". There isn't much lull in the excitement or high drama here, every scene just amplifies the next as far as character drama. It is a cool, thrilling story and even in found footage it unfolds chillingly.

The special effects in "Hooked Up" are pretty tight as well, the blood and gore looked realistic enough. The death and violence are visceral and quality. The cinematography ran the expectant gambit of found footage gimmicks, First Person POV, shaky, shadowy scenes, quirky angles and confusing scenes that have obscured views with sudden thrills. Some times it works and sometimes it doesn't. Luckily enough of the scenes work to create the intended nightmare sequences with enough energy to complete the story arc. Overall, "Hooked Up" just passes enough to be a cool Eurotrip horror, but not enough to be a must see. Plus the ending was really hokey and somewhat cliché. For found footage/paranormal fans this is an okay flick, for a wider horror fan base, "Hooked Up" doesn't really offer much that hasn't been seen and done before.