Too much of everything

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

With one of the film's final moments given away in the first few minutes, we find out that Jill's boyfriend Adam is dead. Adam is that vital ingredient of any found-footage project, a fanatical film-maker. He spends so much time behind the webcam that we only really see him at the close, with an impressively rendered hole in his head.Jill is a carefree wild-child, an unsuccessful artist who feels that a show staged inside an abandoned hospital, The Vergerus Institute for Troubled Women would help give her the exposure she craves, in more ways than one. Not long after they (illegally) enter the hospital, the couple talk about filming a sex-tape with her strapped to a bed.Momentarily abandoning her in that vulnerable position, Adam fails to realise that in his absence, she appears to have been entered by a malevolent spirit. From then on, her behaviour spills over from impetuousness into murderous intent and madness.Sx_Tape is exceptionally well-played. Caitlyn Folley is terrific as the central character, persuasively and increasingly erratic. Her boyfriend Adam (Ian Duncan) is irritated by her behaviour, but goes along with her anyway. It isn't until they meet up with two friends Ellie and Bobby that her behaviour gets really cruel. Bobby (Chris Coy) is an objectionable bully – we don't know whether this is the influence of the spirits, or just an extension of his overbearing personality.As the group unwisely re-enter the hospital, 'Sx Tape' becomes less focused and less interesting, relying on endless investigation of (admittedly creepy) rooms and wards, punctuated by sightings of the very unfrightening spirit. Things are lifted toward the end as we realise the extent to which Jill has been influenced by the spirit, and yet further by an implausible ending which is nevertheless painfully amusing.Online reviews have been unnecessarily scathing of 'Sx_Tape', mainly because any sexual activity is not as graphic as some people would like. As a found-footage project, I was thoroughly entertained by this, mainly due to the actors.

Lets start that I have watched dozen of these movies already and that this one really isn't that good. By using "isn't really that good" I mean super bad. I looked the movie up on this site and only because of one review I wanted to see it. Now the beginning is actually the best of the whole movie. I liked it, even though there were only two main characters. The girl is crazy. All you need to know. The guy I think, likes to have sex with her (we saw that multiple times in the movie) and I guess that is the reason why he has a relationship with her IMO.Now the storyline is pretty simple. Abandoned place with running water and electricity. Tons of rooms who are filled with "creepy" crap. When they go in, they girl flips. they go out, calls a friendly couple and they go back in. Sounds logical to me (not). From that moment the movie sucks. The guy from the couple that has been called is a huge douche who thinks he's a bad ass (carries a gun etc..) . Now This particular moment in the movie blows my mind => the crazy girl has sex with the douche in one of the rooms and gets busted by his girlfriend and then he has sex with her too (trio-style). Now, if that wasn't weird enough, the crazy girl (main character) plays with the douches gun while she gets "filled" and shot him on purpose and thereafter his girlfriend. Because (f-word) logic, that's why. And that's is it. ow yeah she also shoots her boyfriend while saying to each other: I love you baby. Tadaaa written by a 6 year old who liked sex. If you hope to see a horror movie, don't watch it. if you hope to see some soft porn, watch it. if you hope to see a ghost, you will: I think two or three times you see a pregnant woman (woohoo!) The end was unsatisfying. You hope they die because of the simple reason they don't make any sense. Whenever I watch a movie like this. I want to believe that when I am in that situation i would or could do that. Not even once in this movie. I gave it a 1, I would have given it a zero but IMDb doesn't allow it. (P.S.: every review about this movie that says Grave encounters AIN'T or MIGHT be better, stop reading the review)

A young couple embark on a road trip to an abandoned hospital with the man filming everything along the way. The woman is a painter and the idea is to scope out the hospital to hold an art show there at a later time.When their car is towed, they call a couple of friends to pick them up, but plans change and they all re-enter the building. This is when bad things start happening as supernatural forces begin to manifest.The characters are so annoying and their decisions either do not make sense or just plain drive you crazy. Too little happens too late and what does happen is not very interesting. If there were more supernatural goings on and the characters were more likable I think I would have enjoyed this a lot more.

Bernard Rose's "SX_Tape" is a paranormal, found footage film starring Caitlyn Folley, Julie Marcus, Ian Duncan, Daniel Faraldo, Diana García and Eric Neil Gutierrez. The story focuses on Adam and Jill, a young couple in the throws of a spicy, sexual relationship as it unfolds on camera. The course of the day, kinky sexcapades and subsequent horrors take shape in a blend of psychological thrills and nightmarish chills. The story of "SX_Tape" isn't anything new or overtly original but it is well thought out and executed nicely. In an attempt to blend the sex tape phenom into the horror story, Eric Reese develops a pretty convincing concept with some actual eerie moments. There is one aspect that fails in "SX_Tape" that is an Achilles' heel in many of the found footage stories, the plausibility that a person will continue to maintain control over a camera or keep a strong composure in the face of such a horrific, life altering moment such as unfolds in this film. It is debatable and doesn't really kill a story, but when it becomes a question mark for a good third of the story, it slows down the chilling nature of a major component in the film's main gimmick. However "SX_Tape" still manages to fully present a thrilling concept with a edgy, darkness that is entertaining. The acting in this film is believable, with most of the character driven drama hanging on one person, Jill, played by Caitlyn Folley. Her ability to emote on camera the elements of both happiness and terror is both chilling and captivating. In the beginning I felt she was more mentally challenged than I am sure she meant to portray in this free spirit, whimsical character but as the movie went on I found her really more convincing. Over all the film's intended vision stays present and creates a chilling nightmare. "Sex_Tape" holds it's own in the found footage, paranormal genre without being too cerebral or too mundane. The film offers a pleasant medium of drama, thrills and suspense. "SX_Tape" offers up a nice blend of effects both in soundtrack and effects. The horror elements are at a minimum as far as the visceral components but with the creepy sound effects, sudden shock moments and constant pace toward the inevitable "SX_Tape" gives the thrills in expected places and some not so expected places. I jumped and cringed several times in the course of watching this film. Bernard Rose gives good chills, and is worth checking out by any fan of paranormal horror, especially for the fan of this ever-growing subgenre we call found footage.