Cold Ground

Cons:Since I'm late to the "pick-apart" party I will get straight to the point with questions/comments.- They are scientists and don't know the difference between bacteria and viruses?.....interesting- Three-day hike and they brought food and water for a week in those little backpacks, two small tents barely big enough for two people yet they're five of them but they happen to bring five sleeping bags?...hmmmm- Complain about how cold it is, yet they bring very little clothing and the ones they brought are useful in 50-60 degree weather as those knitted gloves are going to do nothing but get wet and freeze your hands.- Why is the lead girl wearing Mudd brand jeans? This is weird because those were made in the mid-'90s, not the mid-'70s when these so-called lost tapes came from.- It's weird how they finally reached the camp and yet there was a hardtop jeep up there yet they had to hike? So how did that Jeep get there, and how did they expect to get back down with there being several feet of snow with a blizzard every day?- Also why would you cut off your limb like a foot in a blizzard and freezing temperatures?? Even in very cold/freezing places like this isn't a good idea as your blood is still warm which means you'll bleed to death before it cools and slows down and since they were already struggling to stay warm it was a big mistake as you lose blood your body temperature will drop even in none freezing temperatures as in doing so ensured this guy will freeze to death faster not to mention the roc she used left there and the wound not being dressed.- A Bobcat in the Alps near France? That is a North American feline now I know they were very lazy in doing their homework for any sort of accuracy as I was saying to my self "Where is the Moose also?" LOL.- I did a freeze-frame on the so-called Yeti/Bigfoot's in this movie and they were pretty bad costumes if they were going for a Yeti/Bigfoot. They got the body pretty decent but not the heads as they were WAY off and the best freeze-frame image showed it to have an elongated snout with oversized canine teeth and long pointed ears it's like they borrowed the werewolf costumes from the Ginger Snaps movies.Pros:- Yes 1/3 of the movie was very slow to pick up but when it did pick up with action it was pretty decent.- Acting wasn't the best but it wasn't the worst I've seen, just decent enough for what it is.- I like how they kept the monsters mostly hidden with only glimpses of them till the end.- I also liked how the monsters used the humans they injured to lure more into a trap which shows intelligence.- All in all the movie was decent enough to give it three stars and that's being generous considering everything I found wrong but if you're looking to be entertained it does that just fine but just don't expect too much accuracy or perfection.

I'm writing this review mostly because I've noticed this movie's not getting a lot of love, and it really is an intelligently done creature feature. A French journalist and her boyfriend/cameraman are off to the Swiss/French Alps to investigate cattle disappearances and mutilations in the area which may have something to do with a new bacteria. Researchers however never returned from the mountains, so the intrepid journalists head out with a biologist, a mountain guide, and an American investigator studying similar cases in the US (which he thinks are caused by e.t.s) to shoot the a rescue mission. It isn't long, of course, until they realize they're the one's in danger. It's a slow burn, couple of slow spots, lots of dialogue, part of which is in French, which may bother those who dislike subtitles. The characters in this one really shine; you believe they are what they are cast as. The setting is desolate cold, the mutilations bloody and the creatures, it's easy to put the dots together as to what they are. This is a found footage film. A polarizing medium, but love it or hate it, the plot is so engrossing you forget that's what you're watching, up until the end. We have that typical ff lack of conclusion, which I would say is this movie's only real flaw.

I'm fine with the found footage genre, when it's done well and fits the subject matter. But I've got misgivings about this one... it's not a bad movie, but it could have been a whole lot better. As it is, it is sloppy and underdeveloped.Why set it in 1976? To avoid cell phones and GPS? That's all I can figure.Why make it found footage? They don't do anything interesting with the technique... it's just an extended spookhouse of running around and finding blurry horrors in the snow.Also, it's never filmed in a way that a professional documentary would be... no staged interviews, no scenes of the woman narrating the project. It might as well be your buddie's phone footage of the high school ski trip.Why didn't they do more research and shore up the initial hiking scenes with more story or character building? The Descent was great, in part, for creating a strong sense of claustrophobia and the dangers of caving... before any creatures ever show up. Also, there was a story to the characters.Here, there's little gravitas to their adventure into the wilderness. Despite knowing there are bears and cats in the woods they bring no weapons. They seem ill-prepared for the journey (which itself seems quite a distance to be taking on foot). The guide stupidly tells them that 'alcohol is your best friend in the cold', which it definitely is not.There's no sense that they're really doing anything but wandering into the woods to be killed for our entertainment.It would have been nice to have a bit more story to the creatures as well... instead they're just fuzzy jumpscares without rhyme or reason. Not that the need to 'explain' them... but as it is there don't seem to be any rules or thought behind them.

Et une petite rareté tricolore ? Qu’est ce qu’on en dit d’une petite rareté tricolore ? Allez zou, chaud devant ! Ce sera donc « cold ground », film indépendant français tourné en 2017 pour 25 000 € comme quoi il y en a qui ont la foi et ça réchauffe mon petit cœur. Préparez vous un vin chaud à la cannelle, on ne va pas précisément dans les Bahamas.L’histoire est déjà vue, la caméra d’un reportage effectué dans les années 70 est retrouvée de nos jours et le dit reportage « montré au public pour la première fois ». Donc oui, il s’agit de found footage, mais le réalisateur nous épargne une caméra trop parkinsonienne.L’action se déroule à la frontière franco-suisse, zone de frayeur que je pense être explorée ici pour la 1ère fois du cinéma parlant ! Ça se passe donc dans les sapins et dans la neige (ils ont pas l’air cons ceux qui n’ont pas préparé leur vin chaud). Au bout d’un moment, avec des indices qui s’accumulent, les reporters et leur guide s’apercoivent, pour mon plus grand plaisir, qu’ils sont sur le territoire de plusieurs Big Foot (donc Big Feet si je veux être grammaticalement correct) et que ceux-ci ne bouffent pas que des Edelweiss. Attendez je compte, les braves gens sont 1..2..3..4…5… on devrait se marrer.En fait pas tant que ça car les morts n’ont rien d’exceptionnelles, par contre les acteurs jouent avec un naturel assez juste ce qui plutôt agréable. L’équipe étant toutefois assez jeune, ils n’ont pas connu les années 70 durant lesquelles l’action est censée se passer d’où des expressions des années 2000 jamais employées à l’époque (par exemple énumérer des faits en disant « check » à chaque fois, pour moi qui était ado dans les 70’s je peux vous dire que personne n’a jamais employé cette expression à part les pilotes de DC8).Le réalisateur Fabien Delage ne livre pas un film fou fou mais il prouve qu’avec des paysages naturels, quelques bruitages, une caméra à l’épaule bien employée (c’est pas souvent), quasi 0 FX, une alternance jours / nuits très rapide qui apporte un vrai rythme, on arrive à avoir une ambiance creepy de bon aloi.« Cold ground » s’en sort donc avec les honneurs et se hisse dans la partie honorable d’un genre (le found footage) qui nous a régulièrement habitué au pire. Réalisateur à suivre. 3 / 5

Halala qu elle découverte que ses 2 petits films si different mais bien sympathique, un film français plein de bon sentiments et un film a l origine d un genre bien particulier

a évité ne me remercier pas ! Film sur fond de found footage totalement raté made in France donc vous attendez pas a des merveille ! le pire film qu'il m'est était donné de voir ! a vos risques et périls !