A Student Film about the idiocy of Student Filmmakers

Rating: 2/10 (18 December 1999)

I can take the film two ways. One is that it is a metaphor for the horror of student filmmaking. You have a bunch of people with pretentious aspirations who dig themselves a deep hole shooting too much worthless grainy footage, argue a lot, use the F word too much, and end up with (as the movie ends) nothing.
Or we can take it for a low budget movie that creates a little tension, but not much else.

Where should we start? First, let's talk about the fact that they are in the woods forever and have unlimited battery power. Or how about the fact that they manage to run with a tiny eyepiece on their eye through the woods. How about the fact that they seem to pick up every sound on their equipment and shoot oodles on a 16 mm camera (which takes huge spools of film for just 10 minutes worth of time).
The movie seems like a really long joke that somebody would tell you just to make you mad with the lack of a punchline. A horrible disappointment, no matter how much money it cost.