 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Exists • Year: 2014 • Country: USA • Director: Eduardo Sánchez • Main cast: Samuel Davis, Dora Madison, Roger Edwards • Runtime: 81 minutes • Production company: Court Five, Haxan Films, Miscellaneous Entertainment • TRAILER |
Oh, do you remember at the end of the 90s, when The Blair Witch Project (1999) was a huge hype? Everybody was talking about it, it was in all the magazines, not only the film specialized ones but even in those awful Sunday magazines from the newspapers. It was on posters in the streets, it was on the TV… Everybody talking of this fake documentary about those kids who disappear in the woods and the only thing that was found was some low quality footage they filmed. That was a quite good marketing move, but an awful awful movie. Okay, so Exists is the same again, but without the inventive campaign or the doubt of “is it real?”.
Yes, again, 5 kids in their early 20s who go to the woods. And the Bigfoot appears. And they take shelter in a cabin surrounded only by the forest. And same old same old blah blah blah one more time. This never ends, really. Another cheap “cabin with good looking kids in the woods” film. This time is not a crazy deranged slayer motherfucker chasing them, or demons, or witches. This time is some kind of neanderthal creature that happens to be the Bigfoot. Funny fact is that Brian Steele, the man under the Sasquatch suit, is not the first time he portraits this character. He also played it, in a very different key, in the classic TV show Harry and the Hendersons (1993). I know, our younger audience won’t remember it, I bet. But don’t worry too much, it’s not necessary. It was another sugar coated TV shows from the late 80s and the early 90s. You know which kind I mean, right? Eeeeek….
Anyway! Back to Exists, this film is the last one to date from Eduardo Sánchez, one of the creators of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Together with Daniel Myrick they wrote, produced and filmed that little joke that somehow was part of the new generation of horror movies that bloomed in the early 2000’s. But this time the joke is not funny anymore. Exists has the same concept of idea, a bigger budget and much lower originality than The Blair Witch Project (1999). The kids filming their own footage with their hand cameras and go pro’s is nothing new anymore, people. The story is totally empty and pointless. There is no hint of originality, and acting is extremelly ridiculous beause of a very poor direction. Still, the night vision cameras created a few moments of tension but that was pretty much it.
Exists is not a good movie, not at any meaning. But at least it doesn’t hurt much to see it. Absolutely forgetable and untalented entertainment that doesn’t bring anything new to our eyes.
RATE: 3,5/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1988621
