
Genres: Hor
Starring: Skyler Caleb, Denyce Lawton, Brooke Marks, Trevor Trout, Rudy Perez, Leesel Boulware, Timothy Mahony
Director(s): Joshua Butler
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DivX
IMDB Rating: 3.5 out of 10 (76 votes)
From the producers of SAW, VLOG is a groundbreaking extreme-horror film about a real-life webcam girl whose online murder is not what it seems.
seybernetx (20 May 2012)
The trailers and previews imply this is a true story, even to the pointof giving the lead character the same name as the actress playing therole. A lot of the movie is filmed as if it was a real video log,complete with the shaky, slightly out of focus recording.It isn't, and they give up on the pretense quickly.Minimal sex, minimal nudity, which seems odd for a porn star. Minimalblood, and a low body count, so you can't even watch it as a slashermovie.Little more to say. I can't even rate it as a guilty pleasure.If you really, really, really love Brooke Marks, rent it. If you have abuddy who loves Brooke Marks, buy him a copy. If you're wondering why Ibothered to add this to the end of the review, it is because there is aten line minimum on reviews, and I was done with this epic after onlyseven lines.Adding that will probably get this review discarded by The Powers ThatBe, but I really didn't have anything else the least bit useful to add.I suppose I could have recapped the plot of the movie, but if youwatched the trailer, you already know pretty much everything I couldtell you without spoiling what few surprises this movie has.
gavin6942 (19 May 2012)
From the producers of SAW, VLOG is a groundbreaking extreme-horror filmabout a real-life webcam girl (Brooke Marks) whose online murder is notwhat it seems.I have some issues with this film. First and foremost, I recentlywatched a movie called "iCrime" wherein a web star gets kidnapped. Thefeel was very different, but I think the overall inspiration was thesame. And in both cases, I think the idea of a vlog is really stupid.(This film can be defended, somewhat, because it was made three yearsago... why it took this long to get released is beyond me.) I disliked Brooke Marks (the character, not the actress). Now, this ispossibly the way I am supposed to feel. But she is everything that iswrong with a superficial, shallow culture. She uses people, sex ismeaningless to her. She is vapid, and nothing more. When her friendsstart dying, I cannot feel much sympathy for her.I take issue with the way the police are presented. Even if the policeat first think it is a hoax or prank, once they begin to thinkotherwise, there should be a little better police work. Maybe an IPaddress can be untraceable, but I am fairly confident they could tracea phone call. And blood splatter, no matter how well you clean, isprobably detectable with Luminol. I find it hard to believe that anyonecan be completely vanished.Those concerns aside, the selling point for the film (and what saves itfro man even lower score) is the gore. Great blood, guts, decapitation,explosion (and thanks for explaining how to make fertilizer bombs). Thefilm takes such a drastic turn that it almost seems like a film withina film. But, hey, if it was not for these murder sequences the entiremovie would not be worth a pile of festering dog spit.As you can see from my summary, they are trying to play up theconnection to "Saw". But there really is not a connection, at least noobvious one. Twisted Pictures was involved, but there is no actor,director or writer from the "Saw" franchise involved with this one, soif you need more "Saw" action, go rent "The Collector".
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