Mixed Feelings

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2013)

Let me start out by saying that I didn't hate this film. It was one of those films that had me hanging off the edge of my seat, and even my husband who finds most films these days, predictable, found it to be different. I guess this was supposed to be a new take on the Found Footage genre, but i didn't really find it to really fit in that category other than it involved videotapes. The story line was really well scripted, I liked the characters, and thought most of the movie was pretty believable. The problem for me was the "Found Footage" part. Most of the movie is the Main Character sitting down and watching "Snuff Films" and the problem is that it shows way too much for my liking. I know when I watch a horror movie, i'm going to see gore/ explicit stuff, but I'd really like to not watch it as it happens. The video stuff was just over the top for me. I know horror films are always trying to push boundaries and while i'm all for it, lets leave out violence against pregnant mothers and children.