Frazier Park Recut is a surprisingly fresh take on the seemingly done-to-death found footage movie genre, using the style to improve the film, rather than as a cop-out.
It's obvious, for example, that the cinematography was more thought out that the simple decision make a shaky cam, found footage movie. The way the characters move and hold the camera is very specifically related to how they acting, and what's happening in the moment. There aren't really any moments of it being difficult to watch, which is impressive considering the amount of movement the hand-held camera experienced. In general, the camera's movement and placement always feels to the audience's benefit, rather than their detriment.
Frazier Park certainly benefits from actors that are capable of pulling of a believable combination of funny, creepy, and realistic characters. The chemistry between the three main actors is clear, and while there are brief occasions of slightly flat dialogue, there's no real issue present in the acting or characters. Overall, the characters communicate in a way that feels smooth, interesting, and real.
At some points, the Frazier Park does lean on some common tropes and clichés, but not so much that it ruins the experience. It's very self-aware of many of these tropes, made clear through the film-within-a- film aspect. Frazier Park, much to it's own advantage, never speaks down to the audience. There's no instances of the audience really feeling like something's being rubbed in their face, as if they couldn't figure it out on their own. Of course, this is, on occasion, as a result of the speaking-to-the-camera style of found footage, but at the very least, it doesn't take the viewer out of the experience.
