Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

pmaheadquarters What a terrible, unbelievable piece of rubbish. The plot is oh so original, the acting is terrible and what's with the cheap effects. Can they not use something that looks remotely like blood??As far as unbelievable, the cult asks the crew to leave their communication devices i.e., cell phones behind but yet had no problem with them filming them. As if that wouldn't raise a red flag! I guess we're supposed to believe they never intended for the crew to leave...why be filmed and interviewed then? I can't believe some of the reviews some people give these garbage films. Man talk about low expectations.This film brings absolutely nothing new to the doomsday cult premise. Avoid at all costs unless the alternative is a root canal and even then...

begob Foundish footage of normal folk confronting weird stuff in the woods.Strange rumours are heard by nosey people with cameras. Enquiries are made, the task is set. The car is left in the middle of nowhere, and a journey into Hell begins.Not much to add. The heroes/inquirers aren't of much interest - he's geeky with a conscience, she's ditzy and ambitious. The villain is well played, although his apocalypse is vague. The scares are not too scary.I say foundish footage, because the geek escaped with his camera near the end. As far as I could tell he didn't get captured. Maybe I missed it. I didn't really care.Most interesting aspect was the mist. I guess they got lucky on the day.The end is uninspired, although they did find a use for trembling cam to suggest the coming of ... THE APOCALYPSE!

victoryismineblast Refreshing film from Australia picks up on the new trend of combining found footage and Cults. Two documentary filmmakers follow a trail of clues until they are invited to spend a few days at a cult deep in the forests of Australia. When they get there things start really getting bizarre. As they start following the daily lives of the cult members and interviewing them it becomes clear that things just aren't right. The leader, a creepy old man named Michael, regales them with tales of the apocalypse and their little group's role in it. The cult is comprised only of women and girls. Where did the men go?Comparisons can be drawn here to Ti West's "The Sacrament," and rightfully so, but this one is so much more bizarre and sinister that it seems more like a horror movie than a rehashing of the Jonestown Massacre.There are allusions to pedophilia and murder and so much else. The mood is just perfect and the scenery is at once beautiful and strangely creepy. The ending is startling as well as ambiguous and just perfect for this type of movie. It definitely kept me enthralled throughout. Highly recommended for fans of the genre, and fans of horror in general.

tfmiltz I think it's PROBABLY fair for me to say it's no spoiler to say this wasn't a documentary.I didn't know though.Then again, this is coming from someone who watched Blair Witch and believed everything they read on the internet at the time that Blair Witch was a real hand filmed experience. Clearly the ending in Blair Witch gave it away for me - although I did always love that line in BW "No redneck is THIS smart".As to Apocalyptic, one classic line was "The rest of the world can go to hell" and seeing some 14 year old girl go "Get on your knees" before putting a blind fold on, eh, I was still buying this was a real documentary. It was that same girl who said the rest of the world can go to hell regarding a comment on the cult not using the 'internet'. It was the SAME girl who went into a seizure who at the point where cult lead Michael said 'bring me the knife' and stabbed her in the arm, I thought, this can't be a documentary - NOT to mention the cult leader waving his magic finger at which female he'd take to bed each evening stopping at some 8 year old girl.All in all, I've stopped watching the movie at THIS point at the tree scene now that I know it's not a true documentary. I think the movie could have done better not getting so extreme so fast, I really would have been fooled. This is coming from someone who used to HOUND another guy named Michael who lived in US South West via email - THAT Michael believed he TOO was Jesus - or 'God' - unfortunately the documentary on Michael's cult WAS real and well - there is something to be said when the two 14 year old girls who are scrubbing the coating off the pan religiously at the sink "Ya know, the bible says we should lay down with the lord, and I think that's just what I'm going to do tonight" the other girl goes "I already did" I'll leave their names out of it as to respect, but I think it was PBS - maybe Discovery channel who did that documentary.So, yes, there ARE people like this out there. Don't kid yourself - WHY TWICE the name Michael has been used ? beats me - All the Mikes in the world are going - WHY WHY WHY does Jeebus ALWAYS have to be named Michael.Anyway- I give this movie a good rating because of what they did on such little or no budget - Let's keep in mind Kevin Smith's Red State here too. That ALSO involved a religious cult (fiction, but really ? compared to Bachmann's husband's trips to the deeeeeep forest - all men - to CURE men of their ill begotten sexual preferences ? wait - wrong story - and that's not fiction EITHER ) but Red State was probably closer to the truth on just where the extremist right can lead when religion gets invited to bed with some guy named Michael.This movie could have been done better had it come closer to home to the extremist Palin Bachmann religious right in the US - as Matt Damon says - yeah - this woman believes dinosaurs existed 10,000 years ago, she's going to have the nuclear launch codes, I NEED TO KNOW. I updated that to - here is someone who believes - like the cult leader Michael in this fictional piece- Palin and Bachmann don't camp far from the End Days camp- and you know ? I just don't feel comfortable with someone who NEEDS it to be the end of the world ? holding the nuclear launch codes.So, this movie is valuable as a reflection of the dangers of religious extremism in the modern world. And let's not forgot the King of Saudi Arabia 2 days ago saying ISIS will attack Europe next month and United States in 2 months (October I suppose would be 2 months), if the world doesn't stop the religious extremist group Saudi Arabia initially funded that is now out of control threatening to end the world if everyone doesn't convert.Yeah - religious extremism is a danger in this world, this movie COULD have delivered that message better than subtle tones of incest, child abuse and what appears to be blood letting.So - no Sundance awards going to THIS Movie, but Red State by Kevin Smith deserves better placement somehow, someway. But the movie leaves us all with REAL haunting tales of horror and that is- how do we move forward in peace in a nuclear era where you have fundamentalist ideologies that have spawned by keeping people illiterate ? Perhaps one answer to it all- EDUCATION.All the Satanists who adopt Crowley go off bout - only one law 'do as thou wilt' - makes me ill to think back at people at University who were obsessed with that - and then you have the Christian fundamentalists who upon being released from prison go "which way to the nearest playground, doesn't matter- I can do what I want - caused I'm SAVED" SAME thing, different labels. Yeah, that's right, Eyes Wide Shut could have been about the Mega churches in Texas- and I think Kevin Smith in Red State came close to merging these two themes.Yikes - being 46 years old, augh! I hope that's not my life ! I just hit the scene where I realize it's fiction ! AUGH heh...