LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Glatpoti It is so daring, it is so ambitious, it is so thrilling and weird and pointed and powerful. I never knew where it was going.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Romero I heard about this movie from a friend who was demanded to watch this by her mother, claiming it would show her a glimpse of what would happen if she allowed her children on the internet. So she watched it, called her mother, and long story short, unfriended her on Facebook. I knew this had to be a good movie.I asked to borrow the DVD, I was ready. So hoping it was going to be this over the top fear mongering film like those ads where Peewee Herman appeared from the shadows and started talking to me about crack. I watched the whole thing. It was so bad. That one scene where a character confronts one of the main girls was amazing. If you don't think me and my friends act out that scene randomly for no reason, you'd be wrong. It tries to take itself too seriously when it doesn't even show how the internet really can harm a child. Megan didn't need to ONLY video chat with skaterboy, she could of messaged him, sent him pictures, video recorded her doing sexual things cause he asked her too. Built this relationship up until she goes missing. How much better would that have been rather then her just looking at me straight from the screen while talking to this guy? Please Megan, I don't like you like that and I hate confrontation.What can I say other then this is a movie. Can I recommend it? Yes and no. If you are looking for something that will scare you into not letting your kid even look at computer, don't watch this, instead watch Trust (2010) a movie that takes this almost same premise and does it better. On the other hand, if you have a horrible sense of humor and just enjoy bad movies, give this one a try.I'm bringing it to the next movie night and I told the friend whose hosting it and he is upset. It's gonna be good.

sazxoxo *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.

mikelepost There are so many things wrong with this movie that I don't even know where to begin. I guess I will start with the format.I'm not a fan of found footage in general, but Megan is Missing is exceptionally lazy in that it barely even adheres to this conceit. In order for the movie to work we the audience are expected to belief that teenagers in 2007 communicate almost entirely via video chat and that these conversations were recorded and stored. We are also expected to believe that photos and video of sexual assaults and murders were made available to the filmmakers. Since the film is never once convincing as found footage I have to wonder why the writer / director chose to tell the story this way.The acting ranges from barely adequate to absolutely atrocious across the board. The two main actresses are never convincing as 14/15 year olds and their performances are mediocre at best. Everyone else who appears on camera - the news anchors, the parents, the other friends - is downright embarrassing. They are not helped at all by the largely expositional and tin eared dialogue.While I am sure there are 14 year old kids out there doing drugs and having sex at random, the portrayal of those types of teens in this film did not ring true to me at all. The pervy, leering tone of the film reminded me a lot of movies I've seen by Larry Clark, where we the audience are theoretically supposed to be wringing our hands over the wasted youth of today etc. but the camera keeps ogling the hot young bodies on screen.This is particularly true of a scene where Megan recounts being forced to blow a 17 year old camp counselor when she was 10, giggling about it the whole time like it is an embarrassing sexual story and not actual rape. There are several other scenes of unnecessary sexuality in the film including a rape scene that make me feel like the film is implying that Megan deserves what eventually happens to her. That, or director Michael Goi is just a pedophile.The first 50 or so minutes of the film almost entirely consist of banal, repetitive dialogue and bad acting. Then we get to the two pictures of Megan and the final 20 minutes. This is the point where Megan is Missing shifts from being a terrible after school special and instead becomes a sadistic found footage horror film. These scenes are undeniably a gut punch and the only reason to see the movie at all.Here's the thing though: To this point Goi has positioned the film as one of those message movies that are supposed to serve as a wake up call to parents. But the film ultimately is pervy and disgusting exploitation. The director's claim that Megan is Missing is about anything other than presenting the highly sexualized torture and murder of its main characters is completely disingenuous and reminded me a LOT of the opening crawl to Chaos (2005) claiming that it was intended to save lives.The ONLY audience for this film are horror fans looking for something disturbing. That is fine, but I'm just warning you the movie absolutely sucks, nothing happens for the vast majority of the run time and you'll feel like you need a shower afterward. Consider that a warning or an endorsement.

benjaminborrelli To put it in simple terms, it's seriously one of the worst movies I have ever seen It features some of the worst directing, acting, cinematography, logic and pretty much anything you can think of that is vital to the production of a movie. I can not take anyone seriously if they say they enjoyed this movie.Don't get me wrong, I get what they were aiming for, but they did it in the most illogical and unrealistic piece of s*** way possible! It's almost like Michael Goi doesn't know a single thing about the internet or teenagers in general, but we see him on reddit and IMDb all the time? Good Job Goi! (Who elected this guy president of the ASC? Seriously?)I also really don't understand how the movie managed to feature terrible acting from the ENTIRE cast, seriously how did all this get through editing and post-production?TL;DR Don't waste your time watching this movie, it is absolute garbage.