That’s what makes some of the first hour interesting.The story doesn’t flow well as it skips between Sophie making a documentary in 2017 about the disappearance and back to Josh and Ashley making a documentary about the Phoenix Lights in 1997 (Josh was an aspiring director, so he filmed everything). It’s famous, but I never heard about it, so it’s intriguing. They say forgettable stuff, and there are so many boring interview subjects that I found myself forgetting who was who. Wanting to use the footage as part of a school project he starts to interview people on the street where he bumps into Ashley Foster (Chelsea Lopez) who finds Josh a very interesting guy. In the spring of 1997, several residents of Phoenix, Arizona claimed to witness mysterious lights in the sky. In April 2017, a found footage thriller, In the film, a fictional girl named Sophie Bishop takes a camera into the desert at night to track down her missing brother, Josh.
In that way, it does something different from most found-footage films, and part of the reason why I’m giving it a passing score.The tension is palpable because of chilling sound design. Although there was no Josh Bishop when the Phoenix Lights ignited the sky in 1997, there were thousands of people like him.
The camera’s consistently shaky, but the visual effects are cool when we see it long enough.
Tough on movies...not on films. Dan also looks at the plot and his level of enjoyment. 'Phoenix Forgotten' was based on the true story of the thousands in Phoenix who watched the now-infamous "lights. The lights spun around the sky before coming to rest on the horizon for an hour before disappearing. Filming the strange occurrence, Josh gets great footage and then more when an F-16 fighter jet creates a sonic boom as it flies close to his house. "In 1997, a series of bright lights seemed to come from nowhere over Phoenix, Arizona. Since only a fraction of this is thrilling, it doesn’t work as a feature film. On July 23, 1997, three high school student filmmakers went missing while camping in the desert outside Phoenix.
On Thursday, March 13, 1997 a strange event occurred in the nighttime skies of Phoenix, Arizona.
I thought it was just making a generic UFO sighting and developing mythology; instead, it interestingly blends some truth with a lot of fiction, and the unexplained phenomena has some intrigue. The little-known actors aren’t memorable, but they do serviceable jobs.
It’s heartbreaking, but besides them, the emotional connection is non-existent; as the characters are one-dimensional.Josh is single-minded and becomes obsessed when he gets an idea in his head. It has a VHS quality, and it adds realism.The horror relies on psychological aspects of paranoia, lots of bright lights and loud noises instead of jump scares, which makes it refreshing. Her documentary feels distinctly incomplete even when she has a chance to make an ending, and the film doesn’t execute.It’s also silly that she waits 20 years to investigate the disappearance, and like the documentary, this feels like it’s made a few years too late, especially after the release of “The Phoenix Incident” in 2015 (a docu-drama about the real-life disappearances).
That’s what makes some of the first hour interesting.The story doesn’t flow well as it skips between Sophie making a documentary in 2017 about the disappearance and back to Josh and Ashley making a documentary about the Phoenix Lights in 1997 (Josh was an aspiring director, so he filmed everything). It’s famous, but I never heard about it, so it’s intriguing. They say forgettable stuff, and there are so many boring interview subjects that I found myself forgetting who was who. Wanting to use the footage as part of a school project he starts to interview people on the street where he bumps into Ashley Foster (Chelsea Lopez) who finds Josh a very interesting guy. In the spring of 1997, several residents of Phoenix, Arizona claimed to witness mysterious lights in the sky. In April 2017, a found footage thriller, In the film, a fictional girl named Sophie Bishop takes a camera into the desert at night to track down her missing brother, Josh.
In that way, it does something different from most found-footage films, and part of the reason why I’m giving it a passing score.The tension is palpable because of chilling sound design. Although there was no Josh Bishop when the Phoenix Lights ignited the sky in 1997, there were thousands of people like him.
The camera’s consistently shaky, but the visual effects are cool when we see it long enough.
Tough on movies...not on films. Dan also looks at the plot and his level of enjoyment. 'Phoenix Forgotten' was based on the true story of the thousands in Phoenix who watched the now-infamous "lights. The lights spun around the sky before coming to rest on the horizon for an hour before disappearing. Filming the strange occurrence, Josh gets great footage and then more when an F-16 fighter jet creates a sonic boom as it flies close to his house. "In 1997, a series of bright lights seemed to come from nowhere over Phoenix, Arizona. Since only a fraction of this is thrilling, it doesn’t work as a feature film. On July 23, 1997, three high school student filmmakers went missing while camping in the desert outside Phoenix.
On Thursday, March 13, 1997 a strange event occurred in the nighttime skies of Phoenix, Arizona.
I thought it was just making a generic UFO sighting and developing mythology; instead, it interestingly blends some truth with a lot of fiction, and the unexplained phenomena has some intrigue. The little-known actors aren’t memorable, but they do serviceable jobs.
It’s heartbreaking, but besides them, the emotional connection is non-existent; as the characters are one-dimensional.Josh is single-minded and becomes obsessed when he gets an idea in his head. It has a VHS quality, and it adds realism.The horror relies on psychological aspects of paranoia, lots of bright lights and loud noises instead of jump scares, which makes it refreshing. Her documentary feels distinctly incomplete even when she has a chance to make an ending, and the film doesn’t execute.It’s also silly that she waits 20 years to investigate the disappearance, and like the documentary, this feels like it’s made a few years too late, especially after the release of “The Phoenix Incident” in 2015 (a docu-drama about the real-life disappearances).
That’s what makes some of the first hour interesting.The story doesn’t flow well as it skips between Sophie making a documentary in 2017 about the disappearance and back to Josh and Ashley making a documentary about the Phoenix Lights in 1997 (Josh was an aspiring director, so he filmed everything). It’s famous, but I never heard about it, so it’s intriguing. They say forgettable stuff, and there are so many boring interview subjects that I found myself forgetting who was who. Wanting to use the footage as part of a school project he starts to interview people on the street where he bumps into Ashley Foster (Chelsea Lopez) who finds Josh a very interesting guy. In the spring of 1997, several residents of Phoenix, Arizona claimed to witness mysterious lights in the sky. In April 2017, a found footage thriller, In the film, a fictional girl named Sophie Bishop takes a camera into the desert at night to track down her missing brother, Josh.
In that way, it does something different from most found-footage films, and part of the reason why I’m giving it a passing score.The tension is palpable because of chilling sound design. Although there was no Josh Bishop when the Phoenix Lights ignited the sky in 1997, there were thousands of people like him.
The camera’s consistently shaky, but the visual effects are cool when we see it long enough.
Tough on movies...not on films. Dan also looks at the plot and his level of enjoyment. 'Phoenix Forgotten' was based on the true story of the thousands in Phoenix who watched the now-infamous "lights. The lights spun around the sky before coming to rest on the horizon for an hour before disappearing. Filming the strange occurrence, Josh gets great footage and then more when an F-16 fighter jet creates a sonic boom as it flies close to his house. "In 1997, a series of bright lights seemed to come from nowhere over Phoenix, Arizona. Since only a fraction of this is thrilling, it doesn’t work as a feature film. On July 23, 1997, three high school student filmmakers went missing while camping in the desert outside Phoenix.
On Thursday, March 13, 1997 a strange event occurred in the nighttime skies of Phoenix, Arizona.
I thought it was just making a generic UFO sighting and developing mythology; instead, it interestingly blends some truth with a lot of fiction, and the unexplained phenomena has some intrigue. The little-known actors aren’t memorable, but they do serviceable jobs.
It’s heartbreaking, but besides them, the emotional connection is non-existent; as the characters are one-dimensional.Josh is single-minded and becomes obsessed when he gets an idea in his head. It has a VHS quality, and it adds realism.The horror relies on psychological aspects of paranoia, lots of bright lights and loud noises instead of jump scares, which makes it refreshing. Her documentary feels distinctly incomplete even when she has a chance to make an ending, and the film doesn’t execute.It’s also silly that she waits 20 years to investigate the disappearance, and like the documentary, this feels like it’s made a few years too late, especially after the release of “The Phoenix Incident” in 2015 (a docu-drama about the real-life disappearances).
20 years later in 2017, Josh Bishop’s sister Sophie (Florence Hartigan), 26, is investigating the disappearance. Daniel tries to be fair to a movie’s audience, even if a particular film isn’t his cup of tea. The Movie Buff brings you the best in movies and entertainment. Richard Dolan, a UFO writer and researcher, host of a weekly radio program and guest on the shows \"Hangar One\" and \"Ancient Aliens\";Dr. Lynne Kitei, a witness to the lights and author of \"Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone\";Jim Mann, director of Arizona MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), an investigative and research organization.The panel was moderated by James Fox, a director of three UFO document…
That’s what makes some of the first hour interesting.The story doesn’t flow well as it skips between Sophie making a documentary in 2017 about the disappearance and back to Josh and Ashley making a documentary about the Phoenix Lights in 1997 (Josh was an aspiring director, so he filmed everything). It’s famous, but I never heard about it, so it’s intriguing. They say forgettable stuff, and there are so many boring interview subjects that I found myself forgetting who was who. Wanting to use the footage as part of a school project he starts to interview people on the street where he bumps into Ashley Foster (Chelsea Lopez) who finds Josh a very interesting guy. In the spring of 1997, several residents of Phoenix, Arizona claimed to witness mysterious lights in the sky. In April 2017, a found footage thriller, In the film, a fictional girl named Sophie Bishop takes a camera into the desert at night to track down her missing brother, Josh.
In that way, it does something different from most found-footage films, and part of the reason why I’m giving it a passing score.The tension is palpable because of chilling sound design. Although there was no Josh Bishop when the Phoenix Lights ignited the sky in 1997, there were thousands of people like him.
The camera’s consistently shaky, but the visual effects are cool when we see it long enough.
Tough on movies...not on films. Dan also looks at the plot and his level of enjoyment. 'Phoenix Forgotten' was based on the true story of the thousands in Phoenix who watched the now-infamous "lights. The lights spun around the sky before coming to rest on the horizon for an hour before disappearing. Filming the strange occurrence, Josh gets great footage and then more when an F-16 fighter jet creates a sonic boom as it flies close to his house. "In 1997, a series of bright lights seemed to come from nowhere over Phoenix, Arizona. Since only a fraction of this is thrilling, it doesn’t work as a feature film. On July 23, 1997, three high school student filmmakers went missing while camping in the desert outside Phoenix.
On Thursday, March 13, 1997 a strange event occurred in the nighttime skies of Phoenix, Arizona.
I thought it was just making a generic UFO sighting and developing mythology; instead, it interestingly blends some truth with a lot of fiction, and the unexplained phenomena has some intrigue. The little-known actors aren’t memorable, but they do serviceable jobs.
It’s heartbreaking, but besides them, the emotional connection is non-existent; as the characters are one-dimensional.Josh is single-minded and becomes obsessed when he gets an idea in his head. It has a VHS quality, and it adds realism.The horror relies on psychological aspects of paranoia, lots of bright lights and loud noises instead of jump scares, which makes it refreshing. Her documentary feels distinctly incomplete even when she has a chance to make an ending, and the film doesn’t execute.It’s also silly that she waits 20 years to investigate the disappearance, and like the documentary, this feels like it’s made a few years too late, especially after the release of “The Phoenix Incident” in 2015 (a docu-drama about the real-life disappearances).
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