⭐️1/2
The labyrinth of tunnels under a sleepy town hold an incredibly disturbing secret. Three Media Studies students working on their end of the year project put themselves in mortal danger when they dig into the disappearance of a local girl. Raz (taking the annoyingness of found footage cameramen and placing it in-font of the camera), Jess and Charlie start their project with a focus on cyber bullying and their teacher points them in the direction of a runaway by the name of Rosy Clarke who ran off after being cyber bullied. This draws the attention of some strange masked figure who we saw getting up to some violently awful shit in the opening. Charlie receives a message supposedly from the missing girl and the police let her know that it’s from a sick prankster who has been sending the same texts to the family and friends of the missing girl. Allegations of grooming, kidnapping and another missing girl with a similar story have the trio thinking they’re onto something bigger than expected. After further investigating, they end up at an abandoned army barracks hidden away in the middle of the woods. Because dummies are gonna dumb, they make their way inside and run into a couple sinister folks. Shockingly, they make it out of there alive. Unshockingly, they don’t count their blessings and keep on scratching that curiosity itch. It doesn’t end well. Sorry. Spoiler. It’s found footage… you’d have figured that out anyways. It’s not as annoying as some the others of this vintage and every actor seems at least capable but it doesn’t really offer much of anything new. The Tunnel provides better tunnel action (you’d hope so, carrying that title) and there’s a slew from psychological serial killer shaky-cam flicks more worthy of your time… Creep, Poughkeepsie Tapes, Megan is Missing, etc. Hell, bullying was even dealt with in the far more interesting Unfriended. Poor film didn’t even stand a chance… or maybe I watch way too much found footage.
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