LogFAQs > #946482441

DAY 29.2: The Taking of Deborah Logan
On Amazon Prime

This movie might actually be my favorite found footage movie.

The Taking of Deborah Logan is about a college student that conducts a medical study filming Deborah Logan, a woman with Alzheimer's. That's all that really happens.

I meeeeeean, more happens. And you can probably guess what by the title. This movie does such an awesome job though. By framing it as a school project on Alzheimer's, this makes it seem so real. It does an awesome job immersing you into the story and buying into this elderly woman with Alzheimer's.

The realism aspect is why I kind of fall out with a lot of found footage movies, but when the scares and creepiness begins to happen, it just works so well.

And the scares and creepiness are done so incredibly well as it slowly ramps up towards the finale where shit gets absolutely insane.

The plot is also extremely compelling to me. So much utter strangeness as the real story begins to unravel, with everything done so perfectly in this format and none of it even feels contrived at all.

The effects and make up are easily the most impressive part of this. Deborah Logan decays in such a grotesque way. It's perfect.

It's also another one of those stories that mixes real life with horror in such a way that it's scary. Alzheimer's is scary already, but then it gets mixed with horror and it just hits hard.

If you want to watch an extremely good found footage movie, this is it. I think it's awesome and does almost everything right.

Rating: 8.5/10

---

I stream sometimes. Check it out!
www.twitch.tv/heroicbiz/