User blog:SpiritAnimal/Horror Movie Reviews - Episode 1 - Invasion

This is a new series...will I keep it going? IDK...

So for our first review, I was looking up some horror movies to watch when I found Invasion. I read the description and it seemed interesting. So I decided to watch it. It's a found footage movie. It is about footage found in a police car on the night a strange virus that came from meteors infected a small town.

The beginning was very misleading. You see a woman who appears to be live on TV as she says that she will be showing taking a back road to see the town 48 hours after. You think the movie is going to be about this woman and her camera man that find more than they expected. But after about 1, you realise it isn't about that. You think it's abou a cop who is trying to investigate the situation in a park. But he soon becomes infected also. He attacks two teens in a car and infects a boy, while the girl takes the police car and drives away. Now, the real premise of the movie: A girl is trapped in a park while trying to survive. She also reveals that she is pregnant. She ends up driving around for 45 minutes while experiencing a couple infected people, while also screaming, crying, and arguing with a deputy who accuses her of being drunk and doing drugs. It was truly a boring movie with a couple creepy parts here and there, but she pretty much drives around the whole night in a park. That's it. And like every other found footage movie, it ended terribly...she gets infected and IDK if she's killed, because the tape ends.

Then it goes back to the beginning, where the news woman is talking again when a man walks over and tells her to stop filming. She tries to ask him questions and he pulls a gun on her. He shoots the camera man and attacks the woman, and it is revealed that he was infected. The movie was terribly boring at times, and I rarely saw the characters or "creatures" walking around as it is supposed to be the car's view of everything. All in all, I give it 2 out of 5 stars. It just didn't show what was going on enough...I pretty much saw the infected people about 7 times, but for about 3 seconds...the closest she got was at the end when she was fighting with them. But before that, it was verryyy slow, leading up to the (sarcasm) VERY surprising ending that never happens in found footage movies.

Any ideas for what to watch next?