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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Sick
I watched this movie after having a personal experience with online predators. Let me first say that I am a horror flick addict. I have seen all the Saw movies, Hills have eyes, last house on the left... blah blah-- goes on. I have been irked by many of these films, but have never felt so disturbed like I am now. This movie is not for those who have a queasy stomach, and...
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3.0 out of 5 stars If I could give a movie both 1 star and 5 stars I would...
Let me begin by saying that this a well scripted, well acted, well written, well directed and excellent movie. However, let me continue to say that this was one of the most disturbing things I have ever witnessed on my 32" HD television screen and I wish it were just a little blurrier.

This movie is not excessively gory like the Hills Have Eyes or any other...
Published on October 24, 2011 by PlanZImaging

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3.0 out of 5 stars If I could give a movie both 1 star and 5 stars I would..., October 24, 2011
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This review is from: Megan Is Missing (DVD)
Let me begin by saying that this a well scripted, well acted, well written, well directed and excellent movie. However, let me continue to say that this was one of the most disturbing things I have ever witnessed on my 32" HD television screen and I wish it were just a little blurrier.

This movie is not excessively gory like the Hills Have Eyes or any other slasher on the market, it's not even as gory as Paranormal Activity and it's not overly profane like Reservoir Dogs or even Shrek, there's no nudity and there's no visualization of any dismemberment or otherwise. But this movie truly hits a nerve as you watch it, not because of any unnecessary violence or even the rape scene itself. For some reason watching it happen to a 21 year old on the big screen can be art and brilliance, but watching it happen to a 13 year old...I don't know, they may only show the face but the expression on her face..., but it gets you and hits you hard in your bodies deepest, most primal instincts of protecting those you care for. The characters are well done enough that they seem real to you as you watch the movie, even if the antics of Megan's friends are way over the top of any barely teenage girl I've ever met. Watching it, I know they created girl's characters to fit two completely different social extremes to show that these same circumstances can happen to anyone and everyone, whether you're the popular, smart student, the class slut, the good-one, or even the misfit. (They may be only two characters but they had four personalities). I think the worst part about the whole experience is you KNOW some similar circumstances have happened before on a daily basis and they'll probably happen again, and again, and again, and again. For these reasons listed above I would give the movie 5-stars.

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The last 22 minutes are way to overdone, and nothing is done to give the viewer any sort of alternative or recommendation. I get why they did it, driving the point home, but it's simply unnecessary and cruel. And my least favorite part is the way they seem to paint the Internet as this inherent evil that plagues all those who use it to communicate. I think technology can be as much a beautiful thing as it is a grotesque one. Information is power, fear is the theft of assumed power, but teaching is the gaining of true power. All this movie does is steal that assumed power away, but not provide the resources to gain that true power back. For these reasons I give the movie one star.

So as I cannot do either 5-stars or 1-star I will settle in the middle for 3, while this movie is excellent in all aspects it ultimately just leaves the viewer frightened of the world around them rather than informed of the truth that they can possess about it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Boring till the end, June 19, 2012
This review is from: Megan Is Missing (DVD)
This movie has been getting a lot of hype and flack for the content. So I figured I better watch and see for myself.

Honestly the first hour is painfully boring. Its two teenage girls standing in front of cell phones or cameras talking. (all of this movie is "found footage" from cell phones, web cams, etc. so get used to it) Some parts they discuss first time sexual activities, or being molested. Honestly pretty disturbing for someone of my age (30) to listen to as the girls in the movie are 14/15 years old. Now, if I was their age, I wouldn't have been uncomfortable really listening to them talk like this because I'd relate to their age group, but instead it was pretty disturbing and I found myself wondering what I was really in store for.

The movie starts to get a little funny. I know, its wrong of me to be laughing about it, because it is a serious issue, this sort of thing really did/does happen, and this movie was based on a few different real cases. But the problem is that the writing in this and the acting during certain scenes were just hilarious even without trying to be. Or maybe it was trying to make you laugh during this specific scene (the scene where they show, and reenact the abduction of Megan) just so they can shock you in the next shot. With a few still "horrific" images. Here I am laughing about this scene and these images pop up and I shut off the movie. I was alone, late at night, kinda scared of what they'd show next. Now, later I looked online or these images, and they weren't that bad, creepy, but I guess just within the context of the movie at that moment they freaked me out.

I did turn the movie back on. But I was creeped out from that point on as really that's where it turns into "horror".

While the overall acting, story, etc, was pretty lame. I felt as a first watch the ending made up for it as it did spook me out. However, that doesn't mean it's a great movie by any means. I would never watch it again because it was painfully boring for the most part. So this makes it a hard one to rate.

Feel free to check out my blog Shivers of Horror (link in my profile) for a more in depth review on this movie along with many many other horror movie/book reviews.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Sick, May 27, 2012
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I watched this movie after having a personal experience with online predators. Let me first say that I am a horror flick addict. I have seen all the Saw movies, Hills have eyes, last house on the left... blah blah-- goes on. I have been irked by many of these films, but have never felt so disturbed like I am now. This movie is not for those who have a queasy stomach, and even if you don't, like me, you may feel the need to fast forward through parts. I had to. The beginning of the movie gives you no heads up on what you're in for. It's very deceiving, which makes the end so shocking. All in all, a movie that was a little overwhelming, but as I said because of personal experience, I can appreciate the attempt in trying to show how online temptation could end up. Maybe not in the way that this particular movie ended-- but we get the point. Don't let your kids go online without supervision of some kind. Reality check--- point made.
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17 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very disturbing, May 14, 2011
This review is from: Megan Is Missing (DVD)
It's difficult to review this. My initial reaction, while watching, and after, I honestly wished I had not rented it. It's hard to watch, at times I wanted to turn it off. I've heard people say teens should see this, but I don't agree. It's to graphic and disturbing for a teen to watch.
This is something parents might want to see, but be prepared to be disgusted. As for the girls who played the main characters, both were very good. I am giving it 5 stars because it honestly moved me, and also sickened me. I would never watch it again. It is not entertainment, not sure what it is. You will have to make your own decision.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Shocking and Brutal, July 31, 2012
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This is a hard movie to review. I will say this though, I have never been more bothered or shaken by ANY movie as I have been by this one. The movie should be required viewing for any teenager, boy or girl, in order to shake them to their core. This is the stuff you never hear about when a child is kidnapped, and you should be glad because the last 25 minutes of this movie are very hard to watch.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A PSA announcement for meeting up with strangers on the net., April 19, 2013
Megan is missing is the story of two young teenage girls that live in suburbia. Their lives are plagued with the usually teen drama of fitting in, being popular,having sex, doing drugs, going to wild drunken parties, getting into arguments with your parents etc. etc. You know the usual things teens do (except turned up to the 19th power). Megan is an outspoken,pernicious,in crowd party girl, and her best friend Amy is a reserved,nerdy,timid type of girl. The two are complete opposites but their friends because each of them seems to have qualities that the other doesn't. In the film we watch the two girls carry out their adolescent lives and learn more about them and what makes them tick. The first half of the film basically is about character development for the two girls so you get to know them quite a bit. The 2nd half of the film is about why Megan is missing. The film itself feel very low budget with a pretty bad acting cast that makes the movie hard to take seriously (especially for the message they want to portray). If you were patient enough to make it through the "Teens gone wild" first half you are rewarded with the more interesting second half of the film.

*This part will contain spoilers*

After Megan is abducted by means of meeting up with a stranger she met online we get to see hints and clues as to what happened to her. We see her chained up in a basement and we see photo's of her BDSM style. The photo's are shocking or maybe disturbing to some people but honestly in the age of the internet these are pretty mild. The only thing that's shocking about them is that your mind recognizes Megan as a girl that you're familiar with instead of a random victim. When you see her in these "uncomfortable photo's" you start to sympathize with her(I actually felt more disturbed with her felicio scene at the teen party). After these incidents that's the last we see of Megan and then the story focuses on Amy who is abducted by the person that kidnapped Megan. We get a better idea of what Megan went through watching Amy's torture unfold as she is chained in a basement, raped,and forced to eat food like an animal. Compared to other movies the second half feels rushed and tries to throw in as much shock value as they can at the veiwer. When the real terror is the psychological trauma that the victim is going through. This is never established in this movie. You don't get to feel what Amy is thinking or the level of despair she is in (even though it's apparent) it's just the poor execution of this part of the film. "The Girl Next Door" gives a good idea of the victim coping with the trauma of the situation their in as Meg goes from a strong spirit that can cope with her punishment to a girl that is fading away and has given up and feels she is going to die."The last house on the left" (the remake) gives a good example of victim despair when the girl is swimming to her parents home after being raped and she's pretending she's swimming in a pool, instead of swimming for her life from her attackers. This type of mental connection is important because it allows the viewer to put themselves in the place of the victim and gives the story more impact. Shock value is okay as you'll remember being scared but you won't exactly remember how scared the girl was or how hopeless she felt which is what this film wanted to establish. Instead you just have people talking about how "That Scene" scared them.

Now about "that scene" it's probably the most if only brilliant part of this film. At the point were focusing on Amy we have forgotten about Megan as she's long gone out the picture at that point. What happened to her? Where did she go? Where is she?. Well it just so happens that Megan has been there all along. As we see the abductor pull a lid off a blue barrel that contains Megan's decomposing corpse. This scene itself is worth watching what is mostly a cheesy movie. They did an excellent job with this part of the film. The look of despair on Megan's face is perfect. The hopelessness in her captured in her eyes and facial expression in her last moments of life. You think about a girl that was once so boisterous, so lively, and so aggressive,and there you see her as a lifeless decomposing corpse with the expression of despair frozen into her face. But then, the movie just drops the ball on this and turns it into another cheesy shock factor. "Megan!!! Megan!!! noooooo!!! *insert cheesy crying*". This was a perfect moment for the director to have shown the psychological deterioration that Amy would have went through at that point. A complete mental breakdown would have been realistic especially after the abductor threw her into the same container with this rotting corpse. Instead it just becomes a series of "Nooo! nooo! please let me goes" and it's as if Megan just vanished again. Amy had a better reaction to seeing her teddy bear again than seeing her dead friend and never the less being thrown and sealed into a barrel with her.

At that point the movie flashes forward to the abductor digging a hole to bury Amy and Megan with Amy begging the abductor to let her go and telling him she loves him and yelling for people to help her. It's hard to not focus on the terrible acting and it doesn't help the impact of the scene as much as it should. This carries on for 10 minutes or so till the abductor kicks the barrel containing her and Megan into the hole and covers it up then walks away. Is the scene shocking? Yes, I guess you can say it is. Does it cross over the impact that it should of had? Not really. At this point Amy is only doing what she has since we first see her abducted and that's begging for him to let her go and screaming for help. It doesn't portray the development she should have gone through after being raped and having her virginity taken, being forced to eat food like a dog, chained up in a dark cell, and on top of that seeing her friends rotting corpse and being stuffed in a container along side her. It's as if none of this even registers with Amy and it should. The director/writers never seem to develop the victim realistically. When people are put into these types of situations they break down mentally. That break down is what the impact of the film should have been instead of the horror like shock value. A teen from a good suburban home is kidnapped and forced to go through gruesome/violent acts that turns her into someone that was far from what she started out as. That is more realistic and closer to what actual survivors of these types of situations endure if they are able to be saved. They are never the same again.

Now the thing about "Amy is Missing" that I think is somewhat of a deception is that the movie emphasizes on the dangers of meeting a stranger online and "this could be you". When that's far from the reality. This could be anyone. You don't have to meet someone online to end up in this situation. You can be abducted walking home from school, walking to your car, right in your own home, etc. etc. The type of people that do these things are predators that know how to get away (which is usually why they're rarely caught until they become over confident and make a mistake). When these predators abduct women they go after girls that people won't be searching high and low looking for like prostitutes,homeless girls,runaways,women that are minorities etc. etc.. Which cases have shown tend to be the usual victims for acts like this. When Girls like Megan go missing in most cases it's done by someone they know or someone local that's been stalking them. This film gives the abductor a blank face and a blank motive. Whether it's done on purpose so that the viewer focuses on Megan and Amy or because they just don't know how to develop characters. It just makes the movie feel like a PSA announcement for middle class Caucasian females about befriending people online and a boogie man abducting you.

The film itself its pretty over the top. Aside form the "barrel scene" the entire abduction is pretty generic. There's Amy's rape scene which I didn't bother to talk about because it was another "shock value" moment. It wasn't as impacting as it should have been because it feels like it's forced on you. It goes back to the character development and mental state of Amy when she is captive. The movie never establishes what she's thinking or her desperation. So when you see her raped it's just watching someone over dramatically being raped. "The Girl Next Door" had a much more meaningful rape scene as by that point Meg had given up hope completely and wasn't fighting back anymore. You had a clearer picture of what she had been through, what she had endured and what her current state of mind was. In "Megan is missing" this scene was were the director should have established Amy's submissiveness and acceptance into her situation as her abductors captive and at his mercy. Instead it bounces from that scene to hopeful Amy again.

Overall this movie that was to have been based on real life accounts felt completely unrealistic by the characters actions. The director should have spent more time studying real victims and predators and the psychology behind it and then writing his movie around that idea, instead of making his movie about a few incidents. In a way this movie is not as serious as it should be as it comes off more cheesy than serious and in some scenes the laughable in regards to the acting. The barrel scene was brilliant however and the truly only notable/memorable part of this film. That actually is very real, and the condition investigators do find these missing girls in. They are sometimes mutilated, decomposed, discarded, half way buried, etc. etc. What was once a beautiful woman/girl is now just a rotting shell. What makes that reality even worse is that these things happen and too often. I do hope that this movie makes some of these teen girls more aware of their actions and the decisions they chose to make. It is good that they used two girls for this film. Once that was a party girl and one that was shy and timid. It gives an example that this can happen to any girl not just the party type.

With that said I give this movie a 3/5. Very bad acting,decent shock value, but if the message gets across than it was worth it. Stay safe!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Close tie between creepy and disturbing..., September 22, 2013
*********LITTLE BIT OF A SPOILER AT END OF REVIEW*************

I saw this movie on Netflix a while back, alone in the house, late at night. One of the other reviewers said it perfectly...you have no idea what's coming as you watch. I too was laughing off this movie as I watched, nearly shutting it off, and then it took a turn. Yes, a large part of it is listening to these 2 teenage girls prattle on and some viewers are mentioning their poor acting, but I actually thought the acting was decent. Yeah, they sound ridiculous because they are 2 TEENAGE girls. That IS the way they sound! Anyway, as everyone else has mentioned, the last half hour of this movie is very hard to watch. You almost feel like you're doing something wrong by watching. Very horrifying, depressing, and disturbing. The kind of movie that leaves you afraid of the world and everyone in it because, let's face it, this stuff does indeed happen. This movie reveals a glimpse of a world that is all too real for some. If you love horror movies like myself and really just like the fun ride that they provide, this is NOT your movie. This movie is not fun. And, as it did for me, the muffled sound of her voice in that barrel will ring in your head for the rest of the night.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars You should watch it once, you will not watch it again, February 9, 2013
This movie was extremely unsettling. Afterwards you feel hopeless, afraid, and angry especially as a parent. When you have kids every mother knows that you have three major nightmares and they are in this order; someone will hurt your kids, your child will be sick, your child will hurt themselves. However, when you watch the real life terror that families go through on tv it is like you are watching a glamorous who done it. I am guilty of it too. Are the parents at fault? Did the police botch the investigation? Are they dead? Honestly this movie made me feel ashamed of the participation I've had in media hipe surrounding these cases. When Megan has gone missing and the media sinks it's teeth into her story, they start by telling you a child is kidnapped about every 40 seconds and then they go on to talk about Megan's case. The reporter casually mentions a young boy going missing in an inner city neighborhood, like a side note, and then returns to talking about the beautiful, young, white girl that was missing. Brilliant. Most people watching the movie probably didn't even pick that up. And that was the point. The media covers missing children's cases based on which stories make for good ratings. But even this becomes trivial at the end of the movie because what happens to these children news coverage or not is the same once they have been kidnapped. People hate this movie for the last 25 minutes, but this movie is validated in those uncomfortable, horrifying moments. Because then you understand that these cases are not glamorous who done its. You understand that there is no hope, there is no calvory riding in to save them, they will not make a galliant escape. The last few moments in an abducted childs life is pain and fear. Once these sick sadistic people get their hands on them, there is no protecting them. Their fate is sealed. That is what needed to come from this film. To get serious about protecting the most valuable thing you will ever have. The news has desensitized us, the horrors these children face are vomitted out in between tips for car repairs and cutsie cat rescue stories and they mean nothing. You have to watch this film to remind yourself what those words really mean. But you won't watch it again. Bone chilling.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but be careful, February 1, 2013
This review is from: Megan Is Missing (DVD)
I watched this movie over the course of a week. I started watching it one day after school because there was nothing else on netflix and a friend told me "it would creep the hell out of me." I watched the first half hour and was like "I can't watch this." Literally the whole thing was chicks talking back and fourth on webcam. I understood that eventually the main character Megan would be kidnapped but I didn't think it was worth my time.

A few days past and I asked my friend why in the world he recommended it to me. I'm a guy who loves to watch scary movies-however I very rarely get scared during horror movies. Even if I'm out in a log cabin in the middle of the woods by myself. So anyway, my friend told me he wanted me to watch it because it would scare me. He said you have to make it through about the first 45 minutes and then gets interesting. So, last night around 11pm I decided to finsh it.

Let me just say that this movie will disturb the living s*** out of you. I have never ever in my life seen a movie that has creeped me out so much. It's not a movie that you will enjoy but it will teach you a lesson. It truly shows what can happen to you when you fool around with the internet. I think teenagers who play around in chat rooms should be required to see this so they can see what can happen.

I can't say I recommend this to anyone because it is truly chilling and will distrub you. However, I have never seen a movie that has put a message out so good like this one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Scarring., October 28, 2012
Megan is Missing was absolutely terrifying. The acting is actually pretty good for unknown actors, and the last 22 minutes are so morbid and sad. I don't need to write I long review for this movie, I've got one word and one word only: Triggering.
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