Vlog Review

Movie: Vlog Year: 2008 Studio: Iceblink Films Director: Joshua Butler Language: English Length: 71 Minutes Sub-Genre: Slasher

Plot: The grim extremes of a world of live webcams are on graphic display when an attractive female “vlogger” is murdered online for all the world to see. The hunt for her killer brings to light even more grisly deeds in this crime thriller.

Review: Vlog is yet another horror movie trying to fool the viewer into thinking you are watching real footage. It is filmed in a fashion making you think what you are watching has actually happened. Come on filmmakers it has been done, over-used and ultimately has failed except for a few lucky movies.

This film is touted as “From the Producers of Saw” to try and garner some sort of recognition. Producers and Studios will throw out all sorts of malarkey to suck the horror audience in. The thinking behind this is; if you like Saw then you will buy this, well we are not that stupid. When you throw low-grade movies out to the fans like Vlog nothing will help. Also, this wrapped in 2008 and it took 3 years to get released on DVD. I guess the Producers from Saw were sitting on this gem.

Lets touch on the story somewhat; if you are not Internet savvy, Vlog stands for Video Log, and it is basically a series of videos which documents someone’s life and posted on the net. In this movie, a young, cute blonde goes through her daily life documenting sexual encounters, friends and other things like that. The table turns on her though when an unknown assailant starts offing her acquaintances in horrific fashion.

I must point out that there are some good things about Vlog, specifically the kill scenes. They are brutal, violent, sickening and very convincing. The premise is; the killer must completely destroy the bodies leaving no trace of existence, and some of the things filmed are bloody disturbing. So credit goes to makeup and the effects department.

As an overall horror movie, the acting was weak and camera shots were poor and annoying, never-ending changing. The last climax did have a shocking revelation I didn’t see coming, but after the final credits rolled, I was happy it was only slightly over an hour in length, because I barely made it through this film, wanting to stop it midway.

Reviewer: BillChete Date: 11/02/2011 Rating: 3½/10 Recommendation: Avoid

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