Skinwalker Ranch

The film stubbornly clings to its genre, never straying from its box. Despite the hints of a pseudo-documentary at the beginning, we end up watching silly scenes with individual characters who are presented to us as not very intelligent people. Occasionally the image drops out, and sometimes we can’t see exactly what’s happening. But the ending at least provides some shots that we don’t see in every found footage film. It’s not a miracle, but Skinwalker Ranch is decently average. (22/11/2013)

I expected that on the paranormal farm in Utah, the creators would gradually tighten the screws, but instead, they were tightening them on the viewer. Disappearances of people in spacetime, physical anomalies, Native American myths, mutations, telekinesis, and aliens with their favorite audiovisual effects all became prisoners of the conceptual dysfunction and the inability to bring any authenticity to the story, even in the characters' behavior. This is a fundamental problem with found footage. Where are the stigmata, Bigfoot, and Kodos with Kang? (03/04/2024)

It's hard to evaluate. For me, there are three weaker ones. I don't want to give two of them, already because of the already mentioned Dark Skies, where I managed to fall asleep easily. This one dealt with the theme slightly better with a visibly lower budget. The story doesn't lag far behind, it flows quite briskly, although I looked a couple of times to see how much is left until the end. Sometimes it felt a bit confusing, sometimes unnecessarily cluttered. It gave me chills a few times, but the atmosphere was rather lacking. In this film, everything is taken from a slightly different perspective, perhaps a bit more creative than I have seen so far, but for me, it's not anything groundbreaking, but I don't regret spending a full 70 minutes on it. It didn't really annoy me. (10/11/2013)