Medicore bigfoot found footage horror film.
Is it bad? Not glaringly, no. It's a stylish, 70's set period piece, complete with added camera grain and all. The acting isn't bad either, though the characters are flat, one dimensional, and not nearly interesting enough to save a cliched and plotless, walk - camp - scream - repeat, routine genre outing with no aspirations.
This is your typical, "stranded in the woods with unknown terror after an expedition to investigate (insert phenomenon here) goes awry" shaky cam film.
If you love the sub-genre, this one has its merits. The acting, writing and style are superior to most of the garbage oversaturating the low budget horror market these days. The cinematography is nice and the filmmakers do nail the 70's aesthetic they're going for for the most part. I'm sure for the sasquatch subgenre, its even among the best, though I've still yet to see "Exists."
It's also highly overrated on IMDB, with a higher score than the intelligent and highly original "As Above So Below" which is kind of unfathomable to me.
Cold Ground is 100% average. It has no aspirations, it does nothing original, and it has nothing to say. It is pure "Found Footage" by numbers, but competently made, which I suppose in this climate of 1000 found footage horror films a year makes it worthy of watching. Take what you want from that, but in a world of only quality horror films, this would have a much lower rating.
Is it bad? Not glaringly, no. It's a stylish, 70's set period piece, complete with added camera grain and all. The acting isn't bad either, though the characters are flat, one dimensional, and not nearly interesting enough to save a cliched and plotless, walk - camp - scream - repeat, routine genre outing with no aspirations.
This is your typical, "stranded in the woods with unknown terror after an expedition to investigate (insert phenomenon here) goes awry" shaky cam film.
If you love the sub-genre, this one has its merits. The acting, writing and style are superior to most of the garbage oversaturating the low budget horror market these days. The cinematography is nice and the filmmakers do nail the 70's aesthetic they're going for for the most part. I'm sure for the sasquatch subgenre, its even among the best, though I've still yet to see "Exists."
It's also highly overrated on IMDB, with a higher score than the intelligent and highly original "As Above So Below" which is kind of unfathomable to me.
Cold Ground is 100% average. It has no aspirations, it does nothing original, and it has nothing to say. It is pure "Found Footage" by numbers, but competently made, which I suppose in this climate of 1000 found footage horror films a year makes it worthy of watching. Take what you want from that, but in a world of only quality horror films, this would have a much lower rating.