Exists - Sometimes the only thing wrong with a film is its lack of originality

‘Exists’ is about a group of teens who get stalked in the forest by Bigfoot.  Only, I just so happen to have seen a horror film before, therefore within the opening five minutes, I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen every step of the way.

The group of friends is like every other group of friends you’ve seen in every other horror film where five friends go into the woods and come a cropper with rednecks/aliens/vampires (delete as applicable).  It’s kind of like ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer,’ but with Bigfoot.  They bump into him in their car and – guess what – he doesn’t take kindly to the hit and run and decides to hunt them down.  But, before they’re totally wiped out, they crack jokes, are oversexed and generally annoying (plus you have the black man here who feels the need to constantly point out that he’s black –just in case the audience couldn’t work that out on their own).

Some aspects of the film are ‘found footage’ or at least they appear to be.  Thankfully not all of it, so it doesn’t confirm to all the latest ‘found footage’ clichés that come with the annoyingly overused genre.  Naturally this film doesn’t really have much of a budget.  Bigfoot does himself towards the end and he’s not that bad.  However, before that you’re left with the obligatory ‘jump scares’ and darkened searches through the woods.

If you like horror films, watch one you already own.  If you already own it then you already like it.  That way you don’t have to bother with this one.  It’s not that bad, it’s just not original enough to warrant a viewing.

4/10 You can watch this film while you're doing the ironing (you'll still get the general gist of it)