In 1953 the entire population of Wicksboro, Texas vanishes. Forty five years later a witness comes out of hiding to tell the story.
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Anytime you watch a movie like this, you have either seriously forgive its flaws, in this case an ultra low budget and some serious borrowing from Blair Witch Project, and suspend your disbelief, or you just simply pick it apart. In this case, I chose the former and really enjoyed it. It did have some serious flaws and you have to REALLY give yourself over to the whole "conspiracy theory" ideology to make the movie work. In its favor it has great pacing and, unlike some commenter, the second act was fairly strong with a 100-yard dash like pace and great tension build up.Overall, though, this movie did keep me on edge and my heart rate accelerated. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to people who enjoy the US Government/Alien conspiracy genre.
This documentary starts out odd, and seems very suspicious at first glance. It has to be watched in it's entirety from beginning to end before anyone has the right to place judgement. Fast forwarding is a sign of being narrow minded.A strong understanding of Area 51, and other related government cover-up theories makes this documentary one to watch to the end. Are they here among us? With the chaos, and very confusing times we are facing today, it is quite possible.The world is supposed to be "more highly educated" everyday, yet we are still seemingly slipping backwards at an alarming rate! Why? Jeremy
This is a pseudo-documentary, that is a movie designed to look like a documentary. It's hard not to compare it to the Blair Witch Project (since they borrowed the style from it), but it probably owes more to John Carpenter's "They Live", in terms of plot than anything else.Basically it starts off telling the tale of a guy who claim to have been a scientist in the 1950s. It seems he worked on an early version of the microwave oven, but for reasons unknown, he and his fellow scientists played with it so it would pick up brain waves. And they noticed that they would occasionally get strange readings.And of course, the only obvious conclusion they could jump to is that they were actually aliens, not people, causing the strange readings.So he claims that he and his scientist buddies were transferred to a small town in Texas (Wicksboro). Then everyone mysteriously vanished. And he fled and changed his name. But 40 years later he came forward. But the only people who were interested were these 2 guys, would be film makers.So these 2 indie filmmakers start investigating his claims. Which basically consists of just going to the library, then going to Texas on a road-trip to actually look for the town. They find it, but run into the aliens (in human guise, of course) and the rest of the movie (the bulk of it) is fleeing from them.Part of the trouble with it is that it's just not particularly creepy. It would have been a lot better to have borrowed some stuff from actual UFO folklore, rather than just a re-tread of "They Live". There's no shortage of things they could have borrowed from.There should have been far more on the actual investigation, I think. Just going to a library wasn't much.I also think the premise is pretty silly. I mean, I am into UFOs and often go to talks and seminars by strange people who give lectures and have slide shows about supposedly hidden bases and conspiracies and stuff. If there was one that was real, no would could tell the difference from the dozens of other supposedly real conspiracies. Heck, Netflix has a whole section on supposedly real alien conspiracies.Lastly, it's supposed to be a documentary, but clearly it's a finished one. It's got lots of stuff that would have been put in last. Like dramatic music while the guy is running around in the dark. Or in the ending, it briefly cuts to a still photo of a guy earlier in a film, who the guy at the end mentions. (Which also was a great way to destroy any tension that was building up.) Stuff like that generally gets done last in a movie. Even if it was supposed to be added just after the footage was shot, I don't see how the cut away to the still photo could have been added at the end, plausibly. So it just makes little sense.All in all, a really pointless movie. Would have been better if it was just a Blair Witch rip off. Though the acting is somewhat better.
This movie is nothing short of pathetic. It has a boring, drawn out, inscrutable beginning that makes it hard to bother continuing to watch it at all.I suppose it is someone's idea of cinema verité. It has all the amateurish production values of The Blair Witch Project but with none of the suspense.There is no ending to speak of at all . . . yet I was glad to see it end. Truth is, being a die-hard, I set my DVD player at 1.5X speed about half way through . . . just to see my evening of pain end all the more quickly.A complete waste of time.Who makes this stuff?