Hooked Up (2013)

Trying to get past a breakup, a pair of friends head to Barcelona to find women, and when they take a pair back to their house they end realizing that they've become involved with a dangerous demonic force intent on killing them forcing the pair to try to get out of the house alive.This was a decidedly decent if wholly underwhelming found-footage effort. One of the more enjoyable elements here is the great work it does at presenting a rather intriguing and potentially suspenseful situation. The idea of taking the rather familiar route of the girl being some kind of demonic spirit creature at the end of the night means that the clichéd set-up means that there's plenty of fun to come from the creature going out to kill them as that kind of action is what sells this. There's plenty of brutal, gory bloodletting that emerges from this kind of action as all kinds of encounters and confrontations with the demon spirit makes for an enjoyable time. Along with the great amount of fun that comes from how it works out the final twist at the end, which comes off with a slight bit of originality and does end this on a somewhat enjoyable note. While these here make this one watchable enough, there's a lot of problems with this one. The biggest problem here is the fact that there's just not a whole lot of interest in the first half here as we're continually around this annoying and really irritating group of friends who are really not worth spending time with. The fact that they continually rag on each, push each other into situations they don't want to be involved in and are just basically not that interesting with all the dude-bro comments doesn't make for an endearing or enjoyable start to this one. Not only that, the film's entry into the particular found-footage genre means that very little of the film makes any sense at all, from how the film's battery life is able to stay lit the entire seventy some-odd minute running time while having the bright flashlight feature enabled the entire time to why the pair are continually wanting to record the matters of what might be their last moments alive instead of trying to save themselves or wondering why the film is able to be recorded in the first place with the indestructible nature of the camera being able to stay on whenever it crashes to the ground or gets thrown into the wall with the videographer. None of these efforts are all that intriguing and really just make this one part of the genre which fall into all the usual problems here and that doesn't make for a fun time here. Likewise, the other big problem here is the fact that there are so many moments of questionable decision-making that continually puts them in danger rather than being realistically played out to try to get them out of the house, and for the most part it's what really holds this one back.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and excessive drinking.

A found footage filmed on an iPhone but it still looked like shaky hand cam too me. This one has two friends going to Barcelona with a sole purpose to get laid. They meet a woman who takes them back to her place only to be trapped and hunted by the woman who turns demonic.This is one of those annoying found footages that makes you angry with everybody freaking out and the camera never staying still. A girl gets her foot stuck in a bear trap so the one friend is trying to open it but struggles so instead of the other friend dropping the camera to help he just keeps filming.It seemed like a Hostel meets Night Of The Demons but not of that calibre. You might want to skip this one.

I'm pretty sure the people who gave this movie high marks either were the actors in it or friends of the director because this only deserves a 4 rating at most, and I was being generous mainly because it reminded me of a haunt I walked through once around Halloween that I kind of liked. I live and breathe horror and am willing to watch anything in the genre. Good or bad, which is pretty obvious considering I sat through this atrocity all the way through. Anyway, here it goes....The acting was overly done and bad. Like REALLY BAD. A lot of yelling, one of the main characters started out super obnoxious and his friend whiny and in the middle they kind of switched roles. But yeah, prepare for TONS of obnoxious and unnecessary yelling and erratic and awkward body motions.The story made absolutely zero sense. I'm all for senseless violence and gore in my horror movie. But it has to at least have SOME kind of structure to keep my attention. All these two were doing were rambling on and on about the whiny guys recent breakup with his girlfriend even when some psycho girl in a bad Halloween mask is trying to stab them to death. It wasn't about "how do we get out of here?" or "How do we kill this chick?". Nope, it was about "why did you let me kiss that girl at the party so my girlfriend could catch me?!" and "I know you wanted to get with my girlfriend that's why you set me up with that girl!" and whawhawha... And it just didn't stop.The psycho girl was probably the most unscary thing about this entire movie. And then after "Peter" killed her he starts rambling on about how his friend was trying to steal his ex girlfriend again in his really bad acting way. And then proceeds to kill him. Afterwards he decides to record a message for "Lisa" (his ex girlfriend) with some nonsense dribble. And then he just puts down the phone and walks away.And the whole movie in it's entirety was shot on an iPhone. So yep... found footage...My opinion, don't waste your time. There's other really bad horror movies out there that are way better than this.

From producer Jaume Collet-Serra (NON-STOP) comes a suspenseful and gory contribution to the found footage genre. Filmed entirely with a iPhone tells HOOCKED UP the story of two US- guy how travel to Barcelona to get laid. After pick up to beautiful girls they go to a abandon house to have some fun. The fun turns into a bloody rampaged when one of the girls becomes a rabid demon. What follows is 60 Minutes of pure mayhem including some high class moments of suspense and gore. Director Newbie Pablo Larcuen knows exactly what he is doing. He delivers a straight forward horror hit in the vein of REC, but much MUCH better. With no doubt HOOCEKD UP is big fun not only for found footage lovers – yeah, It's true this movie is a must see for every horror fan.