Review #56: The Dark Tapes (2016)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #4: The Dark Tapes Oh boy. Oh boy oh boy. This is going to be a long one, so I apologize. I just spent about ten minutes searching the internet just to make sure that this movie was not, in fact, a satire of found-footage movies, intended to be the worst possible example of one so as to show people why found-footage movies are bad. So far, I have not been able to find adequate evidence. So I have to assume that this is just a bad, bad, bad movie. I spoke last time about my disdain for found-footage and I figured I'd bring up more of the reasons as the month went on. I had no clue that the immediate next movie would prove to be the poster child for every single thing I hate about found-footage movies. Since this review is guaranteed to be almost exclusively negative let me assure you, I'm trying to give all of this month's movies (even the found-footage ones) their fair shake. I know that I openl...