ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Igor Freitas Not that I expected much of this movie anyways, by looking at the upper half of the poster we can already expect a low budget, "amateurish" kind of movie. The market is saturated with hand-held camera filmed "documentaries", and since these kind of movies are easier to make, there's a whole lot of garbage out there. Unfortunately (or not) for me, I sometimes come across a really impressive title so I am constantly digging out for more. And since I'm also I am a fan of aliens and alien theories, this one got my attention. It's always a gamble though, since the majority of these titles are obscure and you can never be sure if they will be good or not. This one did not fit the bill at all. The only good thing about this movie was the acting, better than I expected. But the movie is simply boring and not worth the time spent watching. The storyline is only original if you haven't heard anything alien-related. I mean, really, anything. If you lived in a hole for the last 70 years, watch it. Otherwise, not recommended.

bjjnedan "Documentary,", about some old crazy person, a cameraman and his lover, friend, business partner, whatever, investigating a town that completely disappeared off the face of the planet 45 years ago. Turns out, that crazy old fraud was right.Anyways, this isn't a documentary, and anybody that thinks this is real should do the world a favor and take their own life. Anywho, this would've been a great, groundbreaking, thrilling little film if it were made in the early 90's. Now, it's just boring. There was nothing thrilling about it. I don't know. I mean, it really could have been something cool if something, anything worth half-a-sh*t happened. Nothing did. I found is humorous that this old crazy person could detect aliens among us with a toy her bought at K-Mart... My girl asked me, "Is this real? Did that really happen?" Of course I said, "Of course this is real, and that did really happen, just not in Texas. It happened in Kansas. The actual name of the town that disappeared is Chanute." Chanute is a town 20 miles away and it's still there. Knowing she knew of this town, since it's where we met, I scrambled and came up with a story about how this happened to Chanute in whatever year the movie said and Chanute was rebuilt in it's entirety in the late 70's. We were both born in 84.At first she was shocked, then she figured out I was full of sh*t. Probably because I was laughing at her when she seemed to believe me. I got a little off base. I just felt the need to tell that story. Anyways, back to this waste of time, yeah, well, um..., nothing happened. A car crashed, a guy got shot. Story over. Again, I must say, this movie really could have been very thrilling. Had the love triangle that starred in the film decided to confront one of the aliens that they detected with the Fisher Price thinger, or if there was..., well..., something that happened. It seems like the director was really trying to pass this thing off as real. The sheer logistics of making a town and all of it's inhabitants completely disappear off the face of the earth, with no one being none the wiser, even in 1953, is extremely, highly improbable. All it takes is one person moving away after graduation in '52. However, if you can suspend your common sense for however long this thing is, it's still not good because nothing happened at all. This is one of the most boring horror/sci-fi/thrillers ever made by anyone, anywhere, ever. If I were to film my Rat Terrier humping my neighbors Darth Vader lawn gnome, it'd be more thrilling, and more sci-fi, than this movie. His wife coming out on the porch in her nightgown to shoo my dog would make it more horror.

MBunge In the years since it took the internet and America by storm, it's become somewhat fashionable to bash The Blair Witch Project. I'm not sure if it's anger from people who were actually fooled by it, the backlash that happens to anything that ascends from geek/nerd niche entertainment to mainstream acclaim or maybe folks were just soured by that horrible, horrible sequel. But it's fairly common for The Blair Witch Project to get belittled now, as though it was never any good in the first place. Well, anyone who does that should be forced to watch The Wicksboro Incident, because it will remind them of how good The Blair Witch Project really was.Another pseudo-documentary shot with hand held video cameras, The Wicksboro Incident contains almost every flaw typical to its genre. It also demonstrates how much visceral power this style of storytelling can have. And it's one of the few hand held video movies that won't give you motion sickness.The film starts out in 1998 Los Angeles with an old man being interviewed in what looks like a seedy motel room from the 1960s. Lloyd (Bobby Harnell) is telling the story of how he and some other guys who were working on a project back in the 1950s to improve the "radar range" managed to invent a device that could receive brain waves. As he tells his story, these black and white images and intercut with Lloyd's narration, like one of those shows on The History Channel or something. Lloyd and the other guys get scooped up by the government and put to work doing something undefined with the device at a tiny Texas town called Wicksboro. One day, while Lloyd is working on the device, he discovers everyone else in the town has disappeared without a trace.That sent Lloyd into hiding, though it's not exactly clear why that seemed like a good idea to him at the time, until he somehow hooked up with two guys making a documentary about UFOs. Their names are Mike (Dan Brinkle) and Gary (Kyle Nudo). Mike has a wife and kid. Gary has a dad living somewhere else. We never really find out another darn thing about these guys. Why they're making a documentary, why it's about UFOs, how and why they decided to get involved with Lloyd…these are questions the film never answers or seemingly ever thinks about.Anyway, after hearing Lloyd's theories about aliens infiltrating the planet and seeing him show off his alien detection device, Gary and Mike decide to go with Lloyd to the town of Wicksboro. Why they think that's a good idea is never made clear. But even though they can't find the town on any map of Texas, they all pile in a car and go looking for it. I'm just going to sketch out the rest of the plot, because if you make it this far through this movie without dying of boredom, you deserve to appreciate the very, very few surprises that happen in the rest of the story. Anyway, our three heroes head to Texas, become the targets of the least competent and cheapest conspiracy you can imagine, terrible things happen to two of heroes and the last is left to try and escape with the camera and tapes that don't actually prove anything except that Lloyd, Gary and Mike aren't that bright.Let me note that there are two good things about this movie. There is one genuinely shocking scene, though its startle factor may be enhanced by how unrelentingly dull the rest of the film is, and when the movie is down to just one guy running around with a hand held video camera while the sound track plays scary music, it generates some cheap dramatic tension. It completely shatters the suspension of disbelief to have scary music playing on the soundtrack of what is supposed to be real video of actual events, so I suppose The Wicksboro Incident is most compelling when it's as stupid and cheesy as it can get.As for the bad, let me count the ways. This film is boring, with long stretches of nothing punctuated by events that don't make much sense. These characters never really discover any secret or uncover any hidden truth or film anything they shouldn't see. The dialog is flat. The acting is mediocre at best. The story has no focus, starting out as a supposed documentary about Lloyd and then turning into a "running through the wilderness with a camera" story that's mainly about Gary and Mike, who are never anything more than ciphers. And there's really no point to this movie being shot with hand held video, except it was simply the cheapest way for them to make this film. Oh, and apparently these filmmakers got almost to the end of their production before they realized they didn't actually have an ending for their movie. So, they blatantly rip off the confessional scene from The Blair Witch Project and fade to black.Let me conclude by saying about The Wicksboro Incident what I've said about other "real video" movies. Before you watch this, make sure and rent a film called Video X. That movie is both entertaining and an outstanding example of "real video" film-making, two things I cannot say about this film.

trancejeremy 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.