Megan Is Missing

Oh god, those images... There are a few scenes in this movie that are pitch perfect, including the last 22 minutes (you'll see). This is disturbing, it builds and builds, and the visual style (the 'hand held' style that makes it look like real footage) is perfect for this. I can't watch this again, but when I was watching it I was really involved. I was grossed out, the characters felt genuine (props to the lead actresses) and I felt awful. It shook me to my core. Fuck this movie... I love it.

Deductions for every single word of dialogue, the plot, the characters, those stupid fucking news broadcasts and that ludicrous reenactment scene. Extra points for the super-creative internet predator guy and his barrel disposal approach.

I'm giving this a green rating because Michael Goi pulled off something that no other horror filmmaker in the last five years has done: legitimately disturbed me. I chuckled through Human Centipede and slept like a baby an hour later, but Megan Is Missing actually made my heart race and my stomach churn, and I turned on the lights when the movie was over. However, it's held back by some decidedly spotty acting and especially the borderline-comic news report scenes.

Another good demonstration of how you can make an effectively horrifying piece of cinema on a low budget. On the other hand, while a labor of love, its flaws glare. The realism is compromised by quite a lot of contrivances, most of them stemming from the devout adherence to the "all found footage" ideal. Aside from excusing the cheap cinematography, it's a device meant to hook the audience into believing. Alas, too many speciously convenient shots make it double-edged, as it so often is.

I need to shower. For a year.

I have seen a lot of movies, and very few of them terrify me like this one. Yes, the acting is generally bad; but that somehow didn't dampen the effect. My theory is that since the tragic events in the movie actually happen and touch us in real life (it's something we've all seen on the news, at the very least) my mind was able to tie this into reality and some fears as a parent, so the bad acting didn't matter; the amount of terror generated was almost palpable. I may have cried a little.

Don't be a fool, Megan is Missing is bad, laughably bad. The acting, writing, and essentially everything else is hastily made. However, the two or three truly horrific scenes are, well, horrific. Not in any other movie have I felt such a shock. Much, much better than The Human Centipede series, but still torture porn.

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quite disturbing.

Hey, that image they showed around the end of movie was pretty disturbing. Shame that pretty much EVERYTHING else about the movie was absolute trash with a severe lack of realism and Goi is a total tool.

The horror was pretty good, everything else was pure shit.

F

Okay so Criticker thought I was only gonna give this like a 70. I get the criticism about the dialogue and shit, but honestly, how do you think 14 year old inner-city and middle-American teenagers talk? Yeah, pretty much. It can be annoying but the point here is a sense of realism, not comfort. And a lot of this movie is not comfortable. The scene with Megan's life story especially highlights some dark shit that some teenagers do face. It's more than a cautionary tale, it's a disturbing triumph.

Badly made, but memorable.

If you think this film is disturbing or scary in any way then you're another 50 year old overly concerned parent that has no clue how young people think or how the internet works. It dupes you from the beginning. Kids only interacting on video chat over the phone? In 2007? Over a GSM connection? 13 year olds eating cocaine in crack dens? The entire film is nothing but incredibly unlikely scenarios and the worst dialogue and editing in any film I've ever seen. But very, very funny.

As this film is a 'welding together' of bits of real cases rather than a depiction of a single specific event, it can be rated on 2 levels; as an important message which all teenagers should watch, where it rates 100. As a "docu-movie", I thought it was really well done, and have no problem with the acting, which seemed 'shallowly real' to me! My main concern is the pacing, the lack of depicting the emotional impact on parents and friends, and the rather contrived abduction of Amy. protection ?

Watched it due to the controversy and I have to say most of the things said about it (ultra violent, terrorific...) are exagerated. Sure, what it tells is sad, tragic and frightening because shit like this happens for real and it's disgusting. But the movie itself doesn't stand out that much, found footage/acting is not that realistic, 1st hour is just boring and the last 25m aren't pleasent but don't live up to the myth. If "it's just a movie" usually helps you, it will certainly work here too.

I am definitely glad that the movie is making its message clear but I was so disturbed by it. Everyone needs to watch this, it's graphic and brutal but it needs to be watched.

A really fantastic ending -- the final moments are genuinely horrific -- but the rest of this is deeply flawed, as everything up until then is mind-numbingly stupid and contrived. The acting is, as expected, abysmal, and the "found footage" angle does not work at all in this context.

While I'll agree that this movie has an important story to tell and will make parents want to quit their ISPs and vet all their daughters' friends, it's so poorly made that I couldn't help laughing at scenes where I most certainly shouldn't have been. I'll give the 2 leads the benefit of the doubt, but everyone else was awful--the wooden friends, the fake dad, the porn star reporter, the re-enactment of the re-enactment, and the torturing predator...who mispronounces 'torturing' when online.

The first 30 minutes of this are so shockingly bad I wouldn't begrudge anyone turning off early. Those who stick with it - and know nothing about the plot - will be surprised by just how dark everything suddenly gets. Yeah it's rubbish - and nothing more than gratuitous horror/fetish porn masquerading as a based-on-true-events 'warning' - but it's also the first flick I've seen in ages that I found genuinely disturbing.

Some legitimately bad acting from the supporting roles along with the cheesy reporters took away from what could've been a better film. Still not bad though