A group of friends gather at a house in the woods to celebrate their pal’s 25th birthday. (He looks more like he’s 45.) During the party, one of the girls wanders into the woods and disappears. Her friends head out looking for her with video cameras in tow and discover there’s something in the forest that’s very hungry.
The Bucks County Massacre is another tiring entry in the Found Footage sweepstakes. According to the opening crawl, the footage is property of the Bucks County Police Department. If it’s supposedly “evidence”, then why end the crawl with blood dripping down the camera? And why add in a musical score? And why are there random slow-motion shots? And if this has been edited from the footage after the fact, why keep in the long scene of the annoying guy playing on the guitar? Speaking of guitars, if the cops were using the video as evidence to find the killer, would you really keep the scenes of the partygoers playing Guitar Hero? Or singing for what feels like forever into the camera? And I know you have every right to film the police, but is it really necessary to keep the camera on the old cop’s crotch for minutes at a time?
Most of the partygoers are annoying to begin with. They get even more abrasive as the night goes on and they become drunker and drunker. Once the girl disappears, they start screaming at each other and get increasingly belligerent. If this truly was a piece of police evidence, I would say my main suspect would be the cameraman because if it were me, I’d snap if I had to spend one more minute with these characters. One thing is for sure: After they saw the tape, no jury on Earth would convict me.
This has got to be one of the worst movies the Found Footage genre has to offer. It’s full of amateurish performers yelling at the top of their lungs, nauseating lime green night-vision, and scenes of people watching scenes we’ve already seen. I’m not a drinking man, but if one was inclined to play a drinking game while watching The Bucks County Massacre and took a shot of their favorite libation every time someone yelled, “Rob!”, they would be (mercifully) dead of alcohol poisoning by the halfway point.
read about this one years ago on IMDB and it sounded promising enough, had no idea it was found footage though, avoiding this one like the plague.
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