Tape 407 (2012)

Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.

Directors:

Dale Fabrigar (co-director), Everette Wallin (co-director)

Writers:

Robert Shepyer, Suzanne DeLaurentiis (story)

Stars:

Abigail Schrader, Samantha Lester, James Lyons

Cast

Cast overview:
Abigail Schrader	...	Trish
Samantha Lester	...	Jessie
James Lyons	...	Jimmy
Melanie Munt	...	Laura Hawkins (as Melanie Lyons)
Brendan Patrick Connor	...	Charlie
Ken Garcia	...	Tom
Samantha Sloyan	...	Lois
Everette Wallin	...	Marshall
Jude Gerard Prest	...	The Cleaner
Savannah Ward	...	Tom's Wife
Michelle Welk	...	Base Command Opeartor

Storyline

The film opens with two teenagers flying from New York to Los Angeles on New Years Eve. Their nightmare begins when their plane hits extreme turbulence mid-flight. The relentless weather attack causes panic and terror amongst the passengers until the plane ultimately crashes in a remote government-testing area. The handful of survivors from the crash, bloody and disoriented, are then insistently pursued in the darkness by unknown predators that, unbeknownst to them, are part of the government's top-secret Mesa Experiment.

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Plot Keywords:

airplane crash | found footage | government | new year's eve | radio | 

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Taglines:

More terrifying than surviving a plane crash is what awaits them in the darkness.

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Did You Know?

Trivia

The movie was shot in five days and all ad-libbed by the actors.

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Goofs

The car runs into Laura and knocks her down killing her. The car then drives straight forward but never runs over her body.

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Quotes

Lois: As soon as we start we're need you to turn the camera off, and turn it back on once were in flight.
Jessie: No don't tell her to turn it back on!
[Lois smiles and laughs and then walks away]

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Connections

Referenced in Midnight Screenings: The Worst Films of 2012 (2013)

User Reviews

The Blur Jurassic Project

I thought that, being some kind of fan of found footage movies, nothing could really let me down so much. Man, was I wrong.

Here we have a film with no qualities whatsoever. At the beginning, I was happy to see a girl (Jess) who reminded me of a chick I went out with a few times ages ago (hey, Rosemary, hello if you are there!). I decided to try to cope with the EXTREMELY annoying mixture of nails running through a blackboard and forks scratching a plate that is the voice of the sister (Trisha). Boy, this -supposedly- 13 years old girl not only behaves like she's 8, but that bloody screeching thing she had for a voice... Jesus Christ. Anyway, at the very beginning, I found the actors natural enough and I thought "ok". Then, 5 minutes into the movie, I was starting to wonder why nothing is happening at all. After the movie goes on and the "actors" show their true colours of stereotypes and horrendous acting, I started to skip chunks by fast forwarding because NOTHING happens in this movie. There's a lot of unrelated talk, of walking around while they are at it, when they are not simply getting hysterical for no reason or repeating "shut up, Charlie". I could fast forward 5 minutes and they'd still be talking about the same (how my leg is hurting or how tired they are), still the camera focusing on their strides while they walk a dirty road. The whole movie is like that.

In total, I'd say that, throughout the 1h 29sec of film, we get to see 5 seconds of blurry bad CGI (2 of them at the very end of the movie). And perhaps about 10 secs of (what is supposed to be?) scary noises (a mixture of lions in heat and dinosaurs with bowel problems). That's all there's to this movie. There's no terror, sense of dread, no real mystery or feeling of threat. SERIOUSLY. NONE. Not even a jack-in-the-box type of scare.

At some points, I smiled or even laughed a couple of times because of the crap acting or ridiculous situations (which are suppose to be very serious and frightening).

At some point, as well, I stopped thinking about that girl I used to know and forgot about hoping to see the actress showing her big bare bust (sorry, I had to focus on something during this garbage of a film, and like I said, she brought back memories of someone else) and simply hated her, like the rest of the people involved in this pathetic movie.

I could almost say that, as an exception, the IMDb score is right. Although, on second thought, that's not correct. This movie deserves a much lower score. This movie is RIDICULOUS. Maybe your 5 years old child will find some amusement while wasting precious time instead of doing something more useful. Like, nothing. After all, that's what they do in this movie. Why would you watch a fiction when you or your toddler can experience firsthand the excitement of doing nothing?

So, hey, if you are bored with your friends, grab a couple of cameras, go out there with some of them while some others hide in the bushes farting a couple of times for scary special effects, run a bit for 2 minutes screaming around and making crazy people noises while drooling, get some tomato sauce on your temples, stop and talk about the weather for 15 minutes and repeat. You can edit the film back at home and use any freeware to add some shitty visual effects for a fraction of a second here and there. You need to be no computer expert! And voilà. Oh, and remember, getting a chubby busty girl to do a topless might get you that extra point!

..Although, you'd probably need more money to achieve that frontal nudity than the total budget for the entire piece of art.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 May 2012 (UK)

Also Known As:

Area 407

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Suzanne DeLaurentiis Productions, Cloud Nine Pictures, Entertainment Factory

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1