Hooked Up (2013) User Reviews

odd movie

[atinder · 5/10 · 4 May 2015]

Another one those shaky cam movies

This time it's about two guys , who end up going out for night and get drunk

they each hook up but then end up going to one of girls house That girl as one hell of dead secret !

This movie takes some time to get going ,

When it's dose there a lot running around and arm flapping going with one guy

There was were some decent bloody moments in this movie , which I enjoyed.

This was very odd and strange movie , I enjoyed some of stuff

So I am going to give it 5 out of 10

5 out of 10

Solid yet problematic found-footage effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 5/10 · 24 April 2017]

Trying to get past a breakup, a pair of friends head to Barcelona to find women, and when they take a pair back to their house they end realizing that they've become involved with a dangerous demonic force intent on killing them forcing the pair to try to get out of the house alive.

This was a decidedly decent if wholly underwhelming found-footage effort. One of the more enjoyable elements here is the great work it does at presenting a rather intriguing and potentially suspenseful situation. The idea of taking the rather familiar route of the girl being some kind of demonic spirit creature at the end of the night means that the clichéd set-up means that there's plenty of fun to come from the creature going out to kill them as that kind of action is what sells this. There's plenty of brutal, gory bloodletting that emerges from this kind of action as all kinds of encounters and confrontations with the demon spirit makes for an enjoyable time. Along with the great amount of fun that comes from how it works out the final twist at the end, which comes off with a slight bit of originality and does end this on a somewhat enjoyable note. While these here make this one watchable enough, there's a lot of problems with this one. The biggest problem here is the fact that there's just not a whole lot of interest in the first half here as we're continually around this annoying and really irritating group of friends who are really not worth spending time with. The fact that they continually rag on each, push each other into situations they don't want to be involved in and are just basically not that interesting with all the dude-bro comments doesn't make for an endearing or enjoyable start to this one. Not only that, the film's entry into the particular found-footage genre means that very little of the film makes any sense at all, from how the film's battery life is able to stay lit the entire seventy some-odd minute running time while having the bright flashlight feature enabled the entire time to why the pair are continually wanting to record the matters of what might be their last moments alive instead of trying to save themselves or wondering why the film is able to be recorded in the first place with the indestructible nature of the camera being able to stay on whenever it crashes to the ground or gets thrown into the wall with the videographer. None of these efforts are all that intriguing and really just make this one part of the genre which fall into all the usual problems here and that doesn't make for a fun time here. Likewise, the other big problem here is the fact that there are so many moments of questionable decision-making that continually puts them in danger rather than being realistically played out to try to get them out of the house, and for the most part it's what really holds this one back.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and excessive drinking.

A camera phone mess

[ebookgamer · 4/10 · 23 March 2021]

Firstly this is from the director of Orphan, a brilliant film. This one isn't.

Annoying and unbelievable camera work. This guy seems to have a camcirder (not phone) glued to his forehead all the time, with an amazing battery life.

Average story,, plenty of gore in second half, moments of gratuitous clips thrown in.

I wish there was an Orphan sequel.

Terrible, terrible, terrible!

[flaquita75 · 1/10 · 18 January 2016]

I could not even finish this film, and I've sat through some pretty bad ones.

Within about the first two minutes, i was already sick of the two guys involved and was hoping some ghost would pop in and kill them right then and just put the film out of its misery! Unfortunately, that did not occur.

Granted, there are quite a few bad movies out there in the "found footage" genre, but I can say without hesitation that I was mad at myself for even trying to watch some of this movie. Those are minutes I can never get back and felt annoyed at how wasted they were.

This is just a movie that I'd put in the "never should have been made" genre.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time like I did. I mean I'm an Amazon prime member so it was free to watch, but I felt like giving it one star was too generous. If zero were an option, that would be about right.

This movie is pretty ridiculous and just drags on and on...

[stormiepsy · 4/10 · 19 August 2015]

I'm pretty sure the people who gave this movie high marks either were the actors in it or friends of the director because this only deserves a 4 rating at most, and I was being generous mainly because it reminded me of a haunt I walked through once around Halloween that I kind of liked. I live and breathe horror and am willing to watch anything in the genre. Good or bad, which is pretty obvious considering I sat through this atrocity all the way through. Anyway, here it goes....

The acting was overly done and bad. Like REALLY BAD. A lot of yelling, one of the main characters started out super obnoxious and his friend whiny and in the middle they kind of switched roles. But yeah, prepare for TONS of obnoxious and unnecessary yelling and erratic and awkward body motions.

The story made absolutely zero sense. I'm all for senseless violence and gore in my horror movie. But it has to at least have SOME kind of structure to keep my attention. All these two were doing were rambling on and on about the whiny guys recent breakup with his girlfriend even when some psycho girl in a bad Halloween mask is trying to stab them to death. It wasn't about "how do we get out of here?" or "How do we kill this chick?". Nope, it was about "why did you let me kiss that girl at the party so my girlfriend could catch me?!" and "I know you wanted to get with my girlfriend that's why you set me up with that girl!" and whawhawha... And it just didn't stop.

The psycho girl was probably the most unscary thing about this entire movie. And then after "Peter" killed her he starts rambling on about how his friend was trying to steal his ex girlfriend again in his really bad acting way. And then proceeds to kill him. Afterwards he decides to record a message for "Lisa" (his ex girlfriend) with some nonsense dribble. And then he just puts down the phone and walks away.

And the whole movie in it's entirety was shot on an iPhone. So yep... found footage...

My opinion, don't waste your time. There's other really bad horror movies out there that are way better than this.

Tuned Out

[shawnblackman · 4/10 · 24 September 2016]

A found footage filmed on an iPhone but it still looked like shaky hand cam too me. This one has two friends going to Barcelona with a sole purpose to get laid. They meet a woman who takes them back to her place only to be trapped and hunted by the woman who turns demonic.

This is one of those annoying found footages that makes you angry with everybody freaking out and the camera never staying still. A girl gets her foot stuck in a bear trap so the one friend is trying to open it but struggles so instead of the other friend dropping the camera to help he just keeps filming.

It seemed like a Hostel meets Night Of The Demons but not of that calibre. You might want to skip this one.

Don't!

[takato0524 · 1/10 · 29 January 2021]

I couldn't make it past 20 minutes. Terrible camera work, hideous actors (the main camera guy every time I saw him I looked away from the tv), and acting worse than a community theater. I can see now why they didn't have a preview on it for Amazon. It was like watching two 3 year olds in two unattractive 30 year old bodies

Awful

[thedarkestshadow-32785 · 1/10 · 31 August 2020]

The only good thing about this movie is the very short amount of time that Natascha Wiese is naked. The main guy holding the camera is a truly awful actor of the lowest caliber.

My Review Of "Hooked Up"

[ASouthernHorrorFan · 6/10 · 29 March 2015]

The story is a tightly woven blend of American horrors abroad and urban legend that mixes xenophobia with a baser celebration of the macabre surrounding ghost girl hook-ups that has evolved from the modern urban legend field. Although I wrestled with the film's framing around the found footage style to tell this pretty cool story, I succumbed to the fact that it is that basic irritant I have with pretty much all found footage films-"would, given the circumstances of such a horrific series of events, would a person realistically continue to hold on to the camera to continue videoing the events?" Especially when the story unfolds chronologically without breaks.

Aside from the "found footage" issue I have, generally, I enjoyed many aspects of "Hooked Up". I found the acting to be believable, the premise plausible, and the emotion genuine. There are a few moments when the dialog isn't delivered quite as convincingly as I am sure the director and story hopes for, but for the most part the drama, suspense and energy is alive in "Hooked Up". There isn't much lull in the excitement or high drama here, every scene just amplifies the next as far as character drama. It is a cool, thrilling story and even in found footage it unfolds chillingly.

The special effects in "Hooked Up" are pretty tight as well, the blood and gore looked realistic enough. The death and violence are visceral and quality. The cinematography ran the expectant gambit of found footage gimmicks, First Person POV, shaky, shadowy scenes, quirky angles and confusing scenes that have obscured views with sudden thrills. Some times it works and sometimes it doesn't. Luckily enough of the scenes work to create the intended nightmare sequences with enough energy to complete the story arc. Overall, "Hooked Up" just passes enough to be a cool Eurotrip horror, but not enough to be a must see. Plus the ending was really hokey and somewhat cliché. For found footage/paranormal fans this is an okay flick, for a wider horror fan base, "Hooked Up" doesn't really offer much that hasn't been seen and done before.

Badly acted, badly filmed, bad, bad, bad

[FountainPen · 1/10 · 18 December 2016]

I detest movies which start with a 3-minute segment showing a guy (or gal) vomiting into a toilet bowl.

I detest movies which feature two thoroughly worthless and unlikable nerds, one of whom looks like a reject from the Baja Marimba Band AND Zapata's outlaw band, while the other looks just like an ordinary nerd.

I detest movies which utilise the shaky-cam, hand-held "technique". No, it is NOT edgy, avant-garde; the word is that this film was shot using an i-Phone.

I detest movies which are shot mainly in near-dark.

I detest movies in which the fake blood LOOKS like poor-quality fake blood or ketchup.

I detest this movie. Truly, I cannot think of anything positive to say about it; it is an hour and a half of boring, infuriating nonsense, with "actors" who need to go back to their day jobs. There is no suspense, no creativity, no indication of any cinematic talent. Truly, the movie stinks. Out loud.

"I know you're there!"

[TuesdayThe17th · 10/10 · 1 February 2017]

I dig up many horror movies on the web I haven't seen yet. This one seemed to surface on its own. "Hooked Up" follows two young guy friends who venture to Barcelona looking for some plain old fun. They meet two girls and one of them knows of an abandoned house they could go party at. Already being drunk, they all decide it would be a good idea to go check it out. One of the guy friends is filming everything on his iphone. The director probably really did shoot most of this film with some type of iphone camera, but its not noticeable at all. The camera work, for found footage, is top notch. It seems the director really had an in depth idea for this movie. Once they characters enter the haunted dwelling, the movie really takes off and what follows is a ton of disturbing, loud, and bloody mayhem. I really liked the character development in this movie. The acting seemed really raw and realistic. The two leads had very different personalities but were still close friends, which is often the case in real life. I really liked how we saw Peter, one of the leads, kind of slowly go mad. From the opening scene we saw how Peter had a little bit of a temper. Once trapped, his anger escalated really fast, resulting in him acting very impulsive, violent, and selfish. Towards his best friend.

This movie is also very scary. It takes an approach somewhat similar to REC, or possibly even Grave Encounters. A group of people trapped in a big building. Although they are similar, they are also very different. This film has you guessing if what is going on is supernatural or not. Then just when you think you have it all figured out, another layer of complexity is added. As soon as the friends enter the house, the movie moves at a fast horror packed pace. This is also a very imaginative horror movie, because the director plays with many different horror tropes, including one of my favorites: (**SPOILER ALERT**.............) a hungry, skinnily deformed, very scary person chained in the dark in a corner on one of the floors of the house. This was very unexpected for me, and it scared the HELL out of me. Peter is the one who finds this person, and even after all the mayhem that had already been going on, Peter decides to trust this person to lead him through out the very dark and scary house to safety. This is an extremely intense and scary scene for the viewer, as the questionable person keeps on turning around to the camera to make sure we are still following her. Her voice is very scary and the way she fast walks is very unsettling. Through this journey amongst floors not only does Peter lose his sense of direction, but so does the viewer, leaving us in a state of complete vulnerability and filled with dread. The fact that this is a found footage movie makes it so much more effective. The way Peter blew up mentally was entertaining, raw, and believable. The female characters were pretty. The horror was intense. Overall I rate this movie 10 out of 10 because it is rare that I find a found footage film that is truly unforgettable, and this is one of them. Follow my other reviews!

A crude, fun thrill ride for the right audience

[Armin_Nikkhah_Shirazi · 6/10 · 6 July 2023]

HOOKED UP is a found footage horror movie which tells the story of two young American men who travel to Barcelona, mainly to help one of them overcome a painful breakup. There, they meet a couple girls with whom they hook up, and then trouble begins for them that is way beyond what they could have imagined.

This movie is bound to turn off a lot of people right from the start. It opens with a scene featuring a character who vomits into a toilet that looks like the actor really is vomiting. One main character is annoyingly obnoxious, the other annoyingly whiny. There is quite a bit of locker room-like talk about the purpose of the trip, and so on. In short, there is a lot of crudeness in this movie.

If, by the time the characters have hooked up, you are not sufficiently offended to stop watching, then you will be treated to an extended fast-paced and high-energy cat-and-mouse game inside an old barricaded building for the remainder of the running time.

I believe the secret to enjoying something like this is to regard it not as a movie experience, but as a thrill ride. The first-person perspective makes it easy to do so; just sit back, forget about character development (though there are character arcs, in fact they go in opposite directions for the two protagonists), plot (though there is at least the outline of a plot which connects present events to the past) or other formalities and take it all in as if you were right there.

Not everyone can do this, but if you can, you will likely find the movie to be a lot of fun.

I love fast-paced found footage horror movies, so this was right up my alley. A few of the scenes reminded me of REC (2007) which, incidentally, is also set in Barcelona. However that work has a much higher caliber than this, in fact I consider it to be possibly the best found footage horror movie ever made.

A thematically similar film is HOSTEL (2005), but the basic plot outline reminds me of DASHCAM (2021) which also involves a fast-paced bonkers cat and mouse game involving at least one exceedingly obnoxious character for the majority of its short duration.

Given the movie's crudeness and lack of ambition to be much more than a thrill ride, it is not surprising that it got heavily panned.

One issue I'd like to address is the quality of the production design/cinematography. It seems to me that those who have criticized it for being amateurish have not seen very many found footage films. Having seen over 150 of these, I can confidently say that the movie is well above average for this genre in respect to both.

So, if you can get past the crudeness and turn your brain off while watching, you might find this quite enjoyable.

Not worth the effort to watch.

[filipemanuelneto · 2/10 · 7 August 2017]

Another European horror film, very low budget. This is one of those "found-footage" movies that, unfortunately, have been used a lot by amateur directors, with little money for great productions and good cameras. The result is another suffering film, with a deeply mediocre cinematography. Is it necessary to shake so much? Okay, the movie is "found-footage", but we still have to be able to figure out something about what's being "filmed" (I put quotation marks because we cannot really call it filming), did you know that? The plot is basic: two idiot Americans (always the Americans) are vacationing in Barcelona, in search of the normal things that American teens want to find in Europe: a lot of cheap fun, girls willing to get laid easily, loud music and other amusements for Americans with an IQ below 40. But what looked like a lucky night with two naughty girls will end badly, when a bloodthirsty ghost appears to shred the whole world.

The movie takes a while to get where the action really starts and this is annoying, but then we end up missing that, because the rest of the film is a succession of racing, falling, bleeding... all mixed with the usual sound attempts to scare the audience and a lot of fake blood splashing around. Unfortunately, when the film begins with these things, we're already so bored and so tired of these two idiots that we just want them to die quickly for the movie to end.

Just another shoddy 'found footage' movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 13 April 2021]

Yeah, that's going to be a big pass from here.

I stumbled upon the 2013 horror movie "Hooked Up" here in 2021. I had never heard about it, nor seen it. And with my interest in the horror genre, of course I opted to sit down to watch "Hooked Up" from writers Pablo Larcuen and Eduard Sola.

The movie's cover really oversold the movie by a hundred miles. I mean, the movie's cover looked very interesting and had that mid- to late-1980s feel to it. And I have to say that the cover really caught my attention and made me pick up this 2013 movie.

Well, had I known aforehand that this sort of was a 'found footage' movie, I wouldn't have given it the time of day. I can't simply comprehend the weird fascination with this ridiculous type of subgenre. If I watch a movie, I want to watch something with production quality and something that feels like a studio made movie, not something that my 11 year old son could have helped me film with the family digital video camera and a $5 video editing program.

Sure, the storyline in "Hooked Up" started out okay enough, if you can get past the shoddy camera that is all over the place, more often than not filming at angles that are just painful to watch, as it doesn't show what you want to see. But the storyline quickly falls to pieces once the two Americans reach the house of a local girl's grandfather. Not going to delve further into detail, you just have to watch the movie and suffer like the rest of us, if you want to know more.

The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, taking into consideration that director Pablo Larcuen was left with virtually nothing useful or worthwhile from the inferior script and storyline.

But it was the dubious camera work and the laughable feel of it being a 'found rubbish' movie that just killed it off entirely for me. I loathe this genre of movie.

Now, I can't and won't recommend anyone taking time out of their lives to sit down and watch "Hooked Up". Some of us suffered through this horrible ordeal so you don't have to. Trust me.

My rating of "Hooked Up" lands on a more than generous two out of ten stars.

More than just a iPhone movie..

[wishmaster_bs · 10/10 · 19 October 2014]

From producer Jaume Collet-Serra (NON-STOP) comes a suspenseful and gory contribution to the found footage genre. Filmed entirely with a iPhone tells HOOCKED UP the story of two US- guy how travel to Barcelona to get laid. After pick up to beautiful girls they go to a abandon house to have some fun. The fun turns into a bloody rampaged when one of the girls becomes a rabid demon. What follows is 60 Minutes of pure mayhem including some high class moments of suspense and gore. Director Newbie Pablo Larcuen knows exactly what he is doing. He delivers a straight forward horror hit in the vein of REC, but much MUCH better. With no doubt HOOCEKD UP is big fun not only for found footage lovers – yeah, It's true this movie is a must see for every horror fan.