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Good concept, poorly executed.

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Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I'll write this review in the same fashion as the film: less is more.I literally just finished watching this film. Definitely VERY unsettling.A found footage production that really keeps things simple.Initially I thought the acting was terrible, but as the film went on, I realised the acting is perfect for the roles and the story - NOT polished, and quite raw, which in fact, is how teenagers are as people at their stage of maturation: unbalanced, unpredictable, and not great at articulation. These traits are reflected in the acting.The first half of the film is the build up of the characters. But then things change very abruptly. By this point, I kinda felt like I was not watching a film, but a documentary. And I felt horrified.I too had to turn away at one point. After watching it, I'm gonna look for something light hearted to follow up with. I don't think I blinked for the second half of the film. What Megan Is Missing illustrates so clearly is just how easily these kinds of events can take place in today's world. Why parents need to be vigilant with their children, and why children too need to be educated STRONGLY about keeping safe.The internet has evolved a lot since this film was made, only 6 years ago, and scenarios like the one that takes place in this story are probably even more likely to happen now.I've seen some reviews and comments around suggest that this should be viewed by students in high schools. I'm starting to think this might not be a bad idea.Nothing in the film is glamourised and polished to any degree. And given how the film ends, neither is the story. The whole of this story and how it is expressed is done raw, and straight to the point.Michael Goi has received a lot of criticism for this film. But I disagree - I feel this film hits the nail right on the head. Having so many overdone films around us these day, Megan Is Missing felt like a breath of fresh air.Now, I need to find something fun to watch to shake some of the imagery and events of Megan Is Missing out of my head.

Michael Boi tried to excuse this inane attempt at a movie by saying it was supposed to caution people about internet predators. This is just exploitation. A total waste of time. Who the hell calls internet video chat "webbing"?! Did the director really believe that's how teenagers talk? And supposedly he took the blowjob description "word-for-word" from interviewing a 13-year-old girl! I think the only thing he did remotely correct was to show me how to dispose of this DVD. Seal it in a plastic barrel with decayed human remains and then bury it in a shallow grave late at night. So glad they recorded every FaceTime message and their webcams were constantly recording whenever they used their computer. The "torture porn" picture that was "too disturbing" for a fetish site's webmaster could have easily been my last appointment at the orthodontist.

*Contains spoilers* So this is my first ever review and quite honestly the only reason I signed up to IMDb was to review this film. Many people on here have listed it as a film that is too disturbing and hard to stomach so being a big fan of the "disturbing" film genre it was an absolute MUST for me to see what all the hype was about. If you do seek out this film for its shock value and gore you will have to persevere for the majority of the film, I will say that. There was many points where I did think of switching it off and giving up as the first hour and a bit of the film is filled with quite bad acting, mainly on the part of Megan's character but I decided to see it through to see if there was in fact this "stomach turning" scene.The film revolves around two best friends Megan who is 14 and Amy who is 13. Megan is highly over sexualised for a 14 year old she goes to parties, performs sexual acts with boys and does drugs which I'm sure MOST 14 year olds do not do. Her acting is rather annoying however I'm unsure if it was the way the director tried to portray her or just her annoying personality and the way she she comes across to the views. Her best friend Amy is the complete opposite she doesn't go to parties and is shy and quiet - however she does involve herself in one party with Megan at the beginning. Megan begins talking online to this boy who claims his name is Josh and gets Megan to go on webcam and show of her body a bit even though he tells her his webcam is "broken". This is where I got frustrated any 14 year old in their right mind would know there was something wrong as soon as this was said, it gets even more frustrating when she decides to meet up with this boy "Josh" and never returns. We then see a number of news reports and CCTV footage of where Megan gets kidnapped by a man in a van.Her friend Amy then decides contacting Josh using her computer as she knows he was the last person to see Megan. As you can imagine he begins to threaten her and stalking her and there is this one creepy scene where we see him in the background of one of Amy's video diary's. If it wasn't already obvious enough he then proceeds to kidnap Amy and keeps her in this underground dungeon.This is where the last 20 minutes begin of the "stomach churning" scenes people have felt sick over. There is two actual pictures of Megan shown where she is has her head and wrists in an guillotine like board with her mouth clamped open with a metal device kneeling in her underwear. We then see Amy chained to a wall in her underwear where "Josh" throws buckets of cold water over arm and makes her drink and eat on her hands and knees like a dog this is where he then proceeds to rape her. This did unsettle me slightly as all we are shown is Amy's head held again a table, tears running down her face being rocked back and fourth. He then tells Amy to get in a barrel. When she opens this we are shocked into seeing her best friend Megan's body in the barrel decomposing and Amy is forced in beside her. The last ten minutes of the film is "Josh" burying this barrel in a forest hearing only Amy's screams and pleading with the unknown man. Throughout the whole film we never get to see "Josh's" face or find out his real name. I'm unsure of what makes this film more unsettling perhaps the shock realisation of that we don't always know who we are talking to online and this can actually happen in real life if we are not careful enough, or the knowledge that it is based on seven different child abduction stories.

Every self-respecting weird person who's looking to get disturbed has heard of Megan Is Missing. The only reason I sought out the film is because I'd read how so many people find it horrendously disturbing. If you hop on to the IMDb message boards (always a good place to find opinions by level-headed people) then you'll find a lot of posts by self- confessed horror movie addicts saying how they found the last twenty minutes of Megan Is Missing to be the most haunting thing they've ever seen in a horror film which is quite a big statement! I'm also one of those people who don't really find many films disturbing. The Human Centipede 2 didn't particularly bother me and I managed to watch Salo alone in the dark pretty comfortably (ish) so I'm always on the lookout for films that might actually give me sleepless nights.Megan Is Missing is atrocious. Let's get that out the way first, it is absolutely embarrassingly bad. As soon as it started my eyes widened in terror at the beyond horrendous acting from the two main characters in the film, Megan and Amy. Both of them can't act for a toffee apple and even that's being kind. Megan's wooden bedpost is probably the best actor in the whole film and steals the show. Although, let's face it there really isn't much of a show to steal. It presents itself as a true story, but this is impossible to take seriously thanks to the stilted acting and forced chemistry between Megan and Amy.As soon as the film starts we're treated to dialogue from Amy which goes something like, "We're filming on my expensive new video camera, Daddy loves me." To which Megan replies, "My Daddy loves me too, slut" and we get a painfully wooden, "Bitch!" Back from Amy. Such Shakespearean dialogue continues throughout the film and it's probably supposed to sound like natural 14 year-old girl banter, but the actors deliver their lines like their reading them from the cameraman holding up a cardboard sign. It's just a total cringe-fest and the characters couldn't get any more stereotypical or two dimensional if they tried. We've got Megan the confident, popular school bike and Amy the unpopular, angelic prude.There is an attempt to build up characters but it just ends up resulting in ridiculous clichés. At one point I even predicted in my head exactly what Megan was going to say as she breaks down awkwardly on camera about her dysfunctional upbringing. We also get treated to a needlessly long monologue from Megan about her first sexual experience which just ends up sounding like dialogue from a porn film. I also liked the director's idea of a teen house party complete with torch lights and girls randomly jumping up and down going "woo!"It's a found footage film so it's essential for it to have a realistic atmosphere, which it fails at miserably. It does make for unintentionally hilarious viewing though. It's about a girl talking to a randomer over the Internet and ending up missing after going to meet him (surprise, surprise) but the film is extremely heavy-handed with these themes. It almost feels like a student film at times, especially when they try to create news footage. I actually laughed out loud at one point where they do a re-construction of the kidnapping. I also loved the part where the newsreader teases the next story about a cocker spaniel driving a car through a shop window! I'm not kidding, the filmmakers should've made a film based on that idea.Basically, the first hour of Megan Is Missing is an hilarious example of how not to make a film. But then the next 20 minutes arrive and everything changes. It's difficult to talk about the last 20 minutes without giving away big plot twists, but I can say that it did actually disturb me. The acting gets a little more convincing (big stress on 'little') and the film becomes relentlessly terrifying. The unintentional funniness disappears and we're presented with a genuinely chilling atmosphere of horror and a sobering sense of realism. Some people say that it's like some sort of indulgent fetish thing for the director but I think it's actually done in a way that's not too exploitative or gratuitous. It's actually a well-made bit of harrowing horror.So, Megan Is Missing is a film of two halves and both halves are horrendous for different reasons. The first three quarters have no redeeming qualities, whereas the last quarter has the power to genuinely shock and unsettle without over-stepping the mark or trying to be nasty for the sake of it. It's a difficult film to recommend, but if you know what you're getting in to and are a hardened horror fan then it's definitely worth one watch. Most of it is total rubbish but in the end it presented some truly frightening ideas which did haunt me and will probably continue to haunt me for some time. So that has got to be worth something, hasn't it?