Apocalyptic 2014 123movies

Watch: Apocalyptic 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Journalist Jodie Black and her cameraman Kevin Horner head deep into unclaimed forest land in a bid to uncover the truth surrounding a bizarre doomsday cult, the ‘Bytherainians’. What they discover is shocking beyond their wildest imaginings. Part BLAIR WITCH part WICKER MAN, APOCALYPTIC is one of the creepiest and unforgettable horror experiences in years..
Plot: A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
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Reviews:

All too familiar.
It’s amazing just how many so-called ‘found footage’ films there are these days. After the success of “The Blair Witch Project”, many other independent filmmakers have also sought to make their mark with small budgets and films that supposedly consist of actual footage from real (and usually scary) events. The basic idea isn’t bad but there is a problem with too many films trying to cash in on this style of picture. In other words, after a while the films start to have a certain sameness to them and few of the more recent found footage films are particularly watchable. This is my problem with “Apocalyptic”, as it fails to break new ground and has an all too familiar ending.

An Australian journalist and her film crew are shown at the beginning of the movie attending an AA-type meeting for addicts. However, one of the participants talks about having escaped from a cult and the reporter smells a story. So, she and the crew get permission from the cult leader, Michael, to stay with them and record their lives. The cult, it turns out is very small–with about a dozen people in it. All are women apart from Michael.

At first the group seems odd but also quite happy. Sure, there are some weird aspects to the group–such as Michael claiming to have divine authority as well as his sleeping with most of the women. But the group still seems fairly normal. However, through the course of the film, Michael reveals himself to be a Jim Jones-type guy and he plans on a mass suicide. This final portion was not especially original–not only because of the famous Jonestown tragedy but because of another recent found footage movie, “The Sacrament”, which pretty much recreates the Jonestown deaths. It also comes off as a bit exploitational and creepy watching all this at the end as opposed to being scary.

So is it any good? Well, the film work is pretty much what you expect from such a movie and you get the jerky camera, folks running and the like. But the story, as I already mentioned, lacks freshness. It’s just a case of ‘been there/done that’ and the ending is clearly what most folks watching the film are expecting. It would have been a lot more interesting with some OTHER twist–anything but what the film seemed to telegraph during the first hour or so of the picture. I think everyone associated with the project tried hard and it’s watchable, but nothing more unfortunately.

Boy am I a sucker
I think it’s PROBABLY fair for me to say it’s no spoiler to say this wasn’t a documentary.

I didn’t know though.

Then again, this is coming from someone who watched Blair Witch and believed everything they read on the internet at the time that Blair Witch was a real hand filmed experience. Clearly the ending in Blair Witch gave it away for me – although I did always love that line in BW “No redneck is THIS smart”.

As to Apocalyptic, one classic line was “The rest of the world can go to hell” and seeing some 14 year old girl go “Get on your knees” before putting a blind fold on, eh, I was still buying this was a real documentary. It was that same girl who said the rest of the world can go to hell regarding a comment on the cult not using the ‘internet’. It was the SAME girl who went into a seizure who at the point where cult lead Michael said ‘bring me the knife’ and stabbed her in the arm, I thought, this can’t be a documentary – NOT to mention the cult leader waving his magic finger at which female he’d take to bed each evening stopping at some 8 year old girl.

All in all, I’ve stopped watching the movie at THIS point at the tree scene now that I know it’s not a true documentary. I think the movie could have done better not getting so extreme so fast, I really would have been fooled. This is coming from someone who used to HOUND another guy named Michael who lived in US South West via email – THAT Michael believed he TOO was Jesus – or ‘God’ – unfortunately the documentary on Michael’s cult WAS real and well – there is something to be said when the two 14 year old girls who are scrubbing the coating off the pan religiously at the sink “Ya know, the bible says we should lay down with the lord, and I think that’s just what I’m going to do tonight” the other girl goes “I already did” I’ll leave their names out of it as to respect, but I think it was PBS – maybe Discovery channel who did that documentary.

So, yes, there ARE people like this out there. Don’t kid yourself – WHY TWICE the name Michael has been used ? beats me – All the Mikes in the world are going – WHY WHY WHY does Jeebus ALWAYS have to be named Michael.

Anyway- I give this movie a good rating because of what they did on such little or no budget – Let’s keep in mind Kevin Smith’s Red State here too. That ALSO involved a religious cult (fiction, but really ? compared to Bachmann’s husband’s trips to the deeeeeep forest – all men – to CURE men of their ill begotten sexual preferences ? wait – wrong story – and that’s not fiction EITHER ) but Red State was probably closer to the truth on just where the extremist right can lead when religion gets invited to bed with some guy named Michael.

This movie could have been done better had it come closer to home to the extremist Palin Bachmann religious right in the US – as Matt Damon says – yeah – this woman believes dinosaurs existed 10,000 years ago, she’s going to have the nuclear launch codes, I NEED TO KNOW. I updated that to – here is someone who believes – like the cult leader Michael in this fictional piece- Palin and Bachmann don’t camp far from the End Days camp- and you know ? I just don’t feel comfortable with someone who NEEDS it to be the end of the world ? holding the nuclear launch codes.

So, this movie is valuable as a reflection of the dangers of religious extremism in the modern world. And let’s not forgot the King of Saudi Arabia 2 days ago saying ISIS will attack Europe next month and United States in 2 months (October I suppose would be 2 months), if the world doesn’t stop the religious extremist group Saudi Arabia initially funded that is now out of control threatening to end the world if everyone doesn’t convert.

Yeah – religious extremism is a danger in this world, this movie COULD have delivered that message better than subtle tones of incest, child abuse and what appears to be blood letting.

So – no Sundance awards going to THIS Movie, but Red State by Kevin Smith deserves better placement somehow, someway.

But the movie leaves us all with REAL haunting tales of horror and that is- how do we move forward in peace in a nuclear era where you have fundamentalist ideologies that have spawned by keeping people illiterate ?

Perhaps one answer to it all- EDUCATION.

All the Satanists who adopt Crowley go off bout – only one law ‘do as thou wilt’ – makes me ill to think back at people at University who were obsessed with that – and then you have the Christian fundamentalists who upon being released from prison go “which way to the nearest playground, doesn’t matter- I can do what I want – caused I’m SAVED” SAME thing, different labels. Yeah, that’s right, Eyes Wide Shut could have been about the Mega churches in Texas- and I think Kevin Smith in Red State came close to merging these two themes.

Yikes – being 46 years old, augh! I hope that’s not my life ! I just hit the scene where I realize it’s fiction ! AUGH heh…

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 24 min (84 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Horror, Mystery
Director Glenn Triggs
Writer Glenn Triggs
Actors Jane Elizabeth Barry, Geoff Pinfield, David Macrae
Country Australia
Awards 2 wins
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Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
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