Butterfly Kisses (2018) Reviews

• Still pretty good

  lindo-julet2019-02-22

  Yes, it's been done before. However this is clearly a movie for fans of this category, not for people expecting something new. I mean, the trailer makes that obvious so don't watch it without that common sense or you're just looking to complain about a movie. It's not the best found footage style, but it's still good. I like that the themes challenge what's real and what isn't. Do you believe something so badly you're willing to ignore possible contradictions? If you're an artist, are you telling a story for the sake of educating, inspiring, or forcing the story to go a direction it shouldn't (like Gavin)? I like that the main character was determined to foolishly pass the tapes off as real instead of letting the audience view and enjoy it as whatever they decide it to be...like this film overall! The creator/director isn't attempting to pass it off as real, at least not in the movie credits. Don't know about imdb credits. If you're a fan of this stuff, it's not bad. Wouldn't say it's a 10, but you'll enjoy it.

• These reviews seem as fake as the casting list

  kay_rock2018-11-12

  I realize that Blair Witch started a tradition of pretending that your found footage is real, but it's no longer even funny: it's just insulting. Note that the IMDB cast list is completely fake. The character "Gavin York" is listed as playing himself, but is actually played by Seth Adam Kallick (who is listed as being the "casting department." Even though it's obviously a found footage fictional film, they've taken the game of making it look real ridiculously too far. It's embarrassing. And really, it's not that original. A myth monster that can be drawn forth by some sort of ritual. A documentary about found footage that can't be verified. It's all been done to death. I enjoy these home-movie versions of found-footage horror as much as anyone, but there's something disturbing about it when the filmmakers go to such lengths, including the fake cast list and the mocked up reviews. If it hadn't been for all the nonsense I would have enjoyed it more. Four stars because it is by far not the worst of this overdone genre, but it's certainly not the best, either.

• Good but don't blink to catch the blinkman

  knofghd2018-12-06

  I'm a fan of the genre and this flick is well put together. The main character is totally believable, impregnated in his quest, dialogs and other characters are on point aswell. The plot & the atmosphere keeps you captive throughout untill the ending which is jumpscare (and i hate jumpscare). In other words i expected a much better ending with the blinkman and answers which we do not have: why the need to not blink to see him, is it some demon or something else etc. It could have drifted to horror genre in the end and doing so be much better imo.. 6 stars that's what it's worth really; rewatch value..maybe

• Bill's Short Reviews For Short Attention Spans

  bipbop132018-11-23

  A pretty nice entry in the found footage genre. There have been a lot of these, and frankly I have stopped watching them because the premise is pretty much the same for each one. Well, this one was different. There are multiple layers to this film, and the subplots weave in and out of each other expertly. There was some good payoff to this movie as well. A lot of found footage films leave you with more questions than answers. This one has plenty of answers for the viewer. This is about a couple of film students who go missing while filming footage of trying to summon "blinkman". Now the footage has been found by a failed directer. He wants to market this footage, and has a documentary crew following him around while he tries to do this. Along the way we have one very good jump scare, and a couple stomach churning moments. I Had to hit the pause button a couple times to freeze-frame and let the image sink in. Some of the effects were marred by the typical "dying camera" glitches, but hit that pause button & you can see them pretty well. Thank God for little to no shaky cam footage. The director has made a good, well layered found footage film. I Will be interested in seeing his future works.

• A Filmmaker's Vision

  faustifilms2018-04-24

  Butterfly Kisses is not your average faux documentary/found footage movie, rather it is a film about filmmaking and the real cost of a filmmakers "vision". The premise is straightforward enough; an aspiring documentary filmmaker finds some Hi8 video cassettes in a box. The cassettes purport to show two student filmmakers, who are investigating a local urban legend about a figure called "Peeping Tom". As he investigates further, the filmmaker begins to lose his sense of perspective in terms of what is important to him and his own moral compass. Like all good movies, Butterfly Kisses is so much more than the sum of its parts. This is a movie about the process of filmmaking, the nature of truth in documentaries and the act of seeing itself. Furthermore, Butterfly Kisses also examines the presence of the director in documentaries and their influence over what the audience sees. The protagonist of Butterfly Kisses, whilst trying to ascertain the truth of the chanced upon footage he is viewing and blinded by a frustrated filmmaker's ambition, fails to "see" what is happening in his own life, The documentary style of Butterfly Kisses never feels contrived or laboured and the narrative, whilst simple, draws the viewer in and engages throughout. Restores your faith in a much maligned sub genre.