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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

The acting in this movie is really good.

May contain plot spoilers if you never saw a bad found footage film.A group of college kids from Southwestern Louisiana decide as a project to spend a night at a haunted plantation, near where Genevieve Richard (Arin Jones) grew up. The party includes her current high testosterone boyfriend Gavin (Sergio Suave) and out of the closet ex-boyfriend Jonah (Leonardo Santaiti) as well as some eye candy.A lot of film was wasted on the ride as a way to introduce character with the game " Never have I ever..." It was a boring fail. At 37 minutes into the film, they finally make it into the house and about 50 minutes an event happens with a twist you expect if you ever saw a slasher film where one person is the home boy.The found footage includes ground cam, running cam, some dark cam, and the Quarantine climax person dragged across the floor cam. The picture was introduced by a man who is shadowed and pixilated, as well as voice disguised so we can't identify him, but later he identifies himself as the brother of the "final girl." The film went all out on special effects like doors closing by themselves and more doors closing by themselves, and more doors making a banging sound. Was Jim Morrison from here? The sound was incredibly annoying as if they were dragging the microphone across the ground so we can hear every leaf that was stepped on by a half dozen college savage trodders being magnified.Oh yes. The acting left something to be desired, although the dialogue sucked so bad I couldn't tell if it was the actors or not.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity, although we get to hear a girl urinate quite loudly...if you're into that.

This movie didn't make the effort and neither will I. 30 minutes of watching fake interviews, "college students" eating pizza, "college students" sitting in class, and then having the fakest game of "never have I ever" before they even get to the haunted house. I turned it off at the 30 minute mark when I realized how much of my time the director was willing to waste just to set up yet another found-footage haunted house movie.

I felt a deep connection with the characters while watching this film. The actors seemed very genuine.The director did a great job of guiding the actors at the beginning of the film. I felt I was transported back to high school and I was assigned a project. The genuine dialogue created a sense of reality and it seem like it was really found footage! The first kill was unexpected. I didn't realize it was happening until 5 seconds after the person was being attacked. This was because the director was able to successfully execute a sense of relief and safety at this point. This made the kill seem so much more dramatic. This was the point of the movie where I couldn't look away until the very end. Every second after this had me on edge, especially the climax! This is one of the best found footage horror movies I've seen in a while.

THE FINAL PROJECT is another homemade found footage horror in which absolutely nothing happens other than a bunch of shaky camera work and a whole lot of bad acting and screaming. The storyline, if it can be described as such, involves a bunch of students who decide to visit a haunted plantation for a school project. On arrival they interview a bunch of locations, arrive on location...and you can guess the rest.Very little happens in terms of incident in this film. There's no gore, danger, or suspense, just a lot of reacting to stuff the viewer isn't involved with. About one person gets killed on screen and the rest is just a noisy blur. This found footage film is definitely at the lower end of the scale with an almost entire lack of characterisation and near-constant screaming that makes it a very difficult watch. It's about on par with Michael Rooker's THE LOST EPISODE in terms of quality, i.e. at the very bottom of the barrel.