The Dark Tapes (2017)

The acting, directing, editing and makeup is amateur. The generated effects are surprisingly well done.Generally it feels like watching a film via a camcorder your friends found in the trash. The editor had an intimate relationship with a static effect; looping the unvariated anoyance every few minutes. It did cover up some terrible fruit juice blood and it was better then watching the attempted acting. Though, it does help to hear the story. Let's look over at this table and the things on it. We return and let's focus on the same table with no things on it. Let's focus on this other table - omg - the things are on it. Like a graphic designer drawing attention to an area by making the text BIGGER. Could we not have had someone touch an object, or put their feet up and move the objects out of the way? That's the theme of how every single story-board missed its mark.Even if the people, effects and scenes felt more natural/unforced. The sound echoed and was hard to hear. The actors did not play off eachother's queues; constantly pausing to look at - their lines? The shaky camera didn't make sense in scenes where it was on a stationary laptop. The entire plotline was explained through yelling and static. Could we not have developed a lengthy story in other scenes?This movie had potential if they first hired a real editor. Then got all new sound crew, actors, writers, story boarders and director. Keep the awesome scenes with the shadowy girl or creature in the dark.

Honestly, there is bad, and then there's bad. I rarely give a movie such a low rating, but this one deserves it. I haven't looked into the background of this yet, but it seems no one, and I mean no one associated with this movie has ever done one before. the script reads like it was written by the failing high school student in AV class, the editing is all over the place, to the point that you can't even tell what's going on anymore, none of the movies even remotely come together in a coherent plot, the sound effects are WAY over the top, I can go on and on. I don't understand how these people get money to do this, its the worst filming imaginable. and the worst part? some of the stories had potential! this found footage-type movie is just overdone, and this movie actually gave me a headache.

I really did not expect to like this movie! I thought it was going to be pretty bad...but it was actually fun to watch! It has moments that would make you go "hmmm.." but everything else is pretty good. Like the other users said, if you love found footage movies, you'll enjoy this one.

As far as found footage horror goes I found this to be an alright movie. Then when I looked it up and found out it was a from scratch no budget movie I gave it much more credit. People have made a lot worse movies with a lot more money then these people. They didn't have much to work with, yet the movie still turned out good and you could tell everyone or almost everyone put their heart into trying to make it good and interesting. I wish they advertised they didn't have any budget because people would appreciate this a lot more. With some money behind a future movie I do believe they can turn out something awesome to rival or surpass ABC's of Death or VHS.