Mockingbird (2014)

Mockingbird (2014)

Dir- Bryan Bertino

Three random people receive a mysterious package that includes a camera and instructions that must be followed, or someone will face certain death. Mockingbird is a thriller that incorporates found footage to show how three different people react to a camera that they can't turn off and a series of harassing events that pushes them to follow the instructions and not contact the authorities. Mockingbird was directed by Bryan Bertino, best known for his 2008 breakthrough film The Strangers. Mockingbird was his follow-up movie featuring an implausible series of events that led to a very predictable conclusion. The film has some great ideas, but the use of found footage does not work as well as the more conventional narrative style that The Strangers employed. Mockingbird certainly has plenty of tension and isn't a bad movie, just one that didn't need to be done as found footage.