20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Florence Hartigan Luke Spencer Roberts Chelsea Lopez Justin Matthews Clint Jordan Cyd Strittmatter Roberto Medina Jeanine Jackson David Carrera Matt Biedel Serendipity Lilliana Ana Dela Cruz Jonathan Schmock Jay Pirouznia Kevin Boontjer Mark Marron Don Boyd Tony Duncan Richard Cansino Hector Luis Bustamante Lawrence H. Toffler Cynthia Quiles Joseph J. LaRocca David Feld Tom Moran Alfred Ontivira Adam Redhouse Isabella Abiera Elizabeth Benjamin Rae Show All…
Samantha Thomas Pavlina Hatoupis Stephanie Caleb Mark Canton Courtney Solomon Ridley Scott T.S. Nowlin Wes Ball
Wayne Marc Godfrey Dennis Pelino Robert Jones Michael Schaefer David Hopwood Wei Cheng Yu Cai Jain Fredy Bush Scott Karol Tom Moran
George Pereyra John Pospisil Zach Seivers Rafael Millán Sebastián Sonzogni Rodrigo Ortiz-Parraga José E. Caldararo
피닉스 포가튼, Zapomenutý Phoenix, Světla nad Phoenixem, Luzes de Phoenix, Światła Phoenix, 凤凰城遗忘录, Забытый Феникс, Los olvidados de Phoenix, Fenix olvidado, Phoenix'te Unutulan, Забравения феникс, Elfeledett Phoenix, Забутий Фенікс, נשכחו בפינקס
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It’s definitely a cover up because there’s no way that kid had a vhs copy of the X-Files movie in his room a year before it even hit theaters.
What a pleasant surprise.
I was not expecting this, I was sucked in right from the beginning.
People have written that it’s Blair Witch but with aliens and they’re right. You have the shaky camera and don’t see much, also like in Blair Witch they did such a good job at building everything up for what’s coming next. I constantly found myself scanning the background trying to see if there was something hiding or if I could maybe piece what was going to happen.
For me everything worked in this film. The mockumentary parts and the found footage parts were equally good. Overall a fun found footage film that I’ll definitely watch again.
Justin Barber's "Phoenix Forgotten" is an effectively creepy found footage film about a young woman named Sophie Bishop (Florence Hartigan) who sets out to discover the fate of three missing kids, one of which being her brother, twenty years prior. With a trail of videotapes left over from her brother Josh, who then planned to make a documentary on the Phoenix Lights in the wake of it all, Sophie and her boyfriend document her detective skills as she sinks down the rabbit hole in obsessively determined ways to find out the truth about what really happened to her brother and his friends.
One thing "Phoenix Forgotten" absolutely nails is the characters. As with most films of this kind, the characters…
When I think of ‘alien abduction’ films, what immediately comes to mind is ‘Communion’ and ‘Fire in the Sky’ so if a good one has come out since the early 90’s, I don’t know about it! Therefore I was pretty amped to discover that ‘Phoenix Forgotten’ was just that: a found-footage, kids go missing searching for UFO’s creep-fest from producer, Ridley Scott. I’m happy to report that in general, they did pretty much everything right working within an ultra low budget:
- The footage and characters felt very authentic for the time they were supposed to be shot.
- The effects were limited but generally well done (only one effect shot really stood out as poor)
- The story unfolded…
Well, hi there.
So, I just watched The Cloverfield Paradox and while I did look at the average rating, I was hopeful that *I* may enjoy it more than others but unfortunately it's painfully average with some weird comedic moments so I need a little Sci-Fi palette cleanser.. Pleasebegood pleasebegood pleasebegood.
Three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix twenty years ago - now unseen footage has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Okay, sounds good enough to me.
I enjoy how it's put together - documentary style. Just works for me.
And wow, I gotta say the last twenty minutes had me on the edge of my seat. I was so…
When found footage still had potential. Today, almost everything has been made unfortunately.
i just wanted to do something different.
fun, thrilling, and insanely creative, Phoenix
Forgotten subverts (and equally embraces) all the tropes usually found in the found-footage genre, making for an outstanding piece of film. while many found-footage movies attempt to sell themselves as "real footage," Forgotten's likable characters and realistic dialogue make this feel immensely believable. one of the hardest parts of a horror movie is caring about the characters, but this movie makes its characters so fun to be around that it's crushing to see their inevitable outcome. even though the over-lapping narrative slows the movie down at times, it still brings a fresh idea to a trodden genre, which makes the movie so refreshing. when the movie reveals the…
It is heavily influenced by "The Blair Witch Project", like most found footage horror films, however, "Phoneix Forgotten" spends most of its runtime on providing a context and introducing the bizarre phenomena, instead of actually involving us on the action. It feels too short. Despite of some nice sequences, it is too quick for any of the events to really feel as if they were spectacular.
While it drags heavily in its second act and isn't anything that I'll be remembering in the long run, "Phoenix Forgotten" is still a solid science fiction mystery film with solid performances, an intriguing story, and a great and suspenseful third act. A pleasant surprise that surprisingly doesn't have any jump scares.
Better than I expected it to be. It borrows very heavily from The Blair Witch Project and other found footage films of the like, just with aliens instead of demons and witches and ghosts and stuff. Short n sweet, just how I like my b-grade horror. I’m a sucker for a mockumentary.
