Evidence

The trailer and the beginning of the film (the first twenty minutes or so) suggest that we will have the honour of watching your typical semi-amateur found-footage horror that will be boring for most of its run, will show the monster a couple of times in the last five minutes, and The End; i.e. something that anyone could make with sufficient determination. Fortunately, that’s not the case here. In the second half, Evidence makes an utterly crazy turn, it runs from one location to the next, the monsters jump from almost everywhere and the whole thing is very atmospheric, scary and shocking. Where, for instance, Atrocious (I was expecting something boring and uninteresting like this) ends, Evidence carries on for another half an hour or so, and at a very fast pace. There are many things I could reproach (the character behaviour, the not very believable performances, and the fact that the last half hour is basically a chaotic run through an incredible number of locations that you wouldn’t expect to find in the “wilderness”), but I’ll be honest, Evidence caught me really unprepared (how many genre surprises out of nowhere have we had in the last year? Not even one…) and, horror-wise, it fully satisfied me. A very pleasant surprise, indeed. (29/02/2012)