Megan is Missing Film Review~ In short, what a vulgar film.

Usually I do my reviews on Youtube but my webcam is not working at the moment which I bet is a relief to some of my subscribers. Not only am I an atrocious reviewer but I always need wikipedia at hand to help me out with the plot and actor's names. Anyway, lately I've been watching alot of films due to boredom and being alone alot of the time. I was selecting another film to watch and came across a peculair titled film called 'Megan is Missing'. The title already gave it away that this was going to be a film about a girl being abducted and that it wouldn't have a happy ending but I decided to give it a watch. There's not alot of films which I watch and tell people to avoid. And when I say avoid, I really mean avoid. The film is shot like Paranormal Activity, found footage, so instantly there's a feeling of realism. Megan and Amy are friends, which is alittle hard to believe because Megan is a party, rebellious girl who has been molested by her step-father has an abusive step-mother whilst Amy is the good girl who respects her parents. The beginning of the film is kind of pointless but sheds light on the girl's friendship and what their lives are like before Megan goes disappearing which for me was already weird. Megan is popular but Amy isn't. For me the bit where the film got disturbing was when Megan was describing her first sexual experience at the age of 10 with a coach giving oral sex. It just scared me how these conversations can happen at such a young age with girls. Fast forwarding the story, Megan gets recommend to talk to this Skater Boy, called Josh from a friend. Instantly there are plot holes. Josh's webcam doesn't work but don't worry he's got a photo to prove who he says he is....Megan and Josh decide to meet at a party. He doesn't turn up. Next day, she demands what happened. Josh says he's shy. AWWWWWW.

Then Josh goes on to say they should meet behind a Diner. Megan is okay with this. PAUSE. WHAT!? Behind a Diner. The viewer is left to either facepalm or scream NOOOOOO when Megan leaves the room. The found footage then turns to ridiculous news reports. Briefly this film decides to become a comedy. Not only was the reporter slightly scaring me by calling Megan 'A Beautiful, popular girl' again and again, until she gushed it. But I had to facepalm at what some of Megan's so called friends had to say when tying pink ribbons around a tree. "We hope whoever took Megan sees the pink ribbon on the tree and decide to let her go". Yes, the kidnapper is a really sentimental, kind, loving person who took Megan but will have a soft spot for pink ribbons so might let Megan go. Well we can hope.

Here is where the plot holes deepen. Amy doesn't tell the police, that Megan was on her way to meet Josh when she disappeared. Heck she even decides to contact Josh to ask him if he saw Megan. Josh then insults her and threatens her, she goes to the police, perhaps alittle too late? And then the news reportshow Amy on TV and the name of the person she's accusing. All I can say is: WTF HAPPENED TO WITNESS PROTECTION?!

Your probably wondering why I'm making such a big deal about this but at the beginning of the film they say this film is based on actual events. If it is it needs to be realistic and I don't know but that seemed ridiculous, showing the witness who came forward on TV cause its no surprise Amy goes missing next. Poor Amy, I did feel sorry for what happened to her in the last 22 minutes of this abysmal tragedy but I blame quite a few people. I blame Amy's parents for letting her out after Megan disappearing, I blame Amy's school for not teaching her STRANGER DANGER and for not teaching her that playing underneath an empty remote bridge is the perfect place for someone to kidnap you and I also blame Amy's brain for failing her throughout the entire film. The film takes an ugly turn for the half an hour. I knew this film was going to turn ugly when two photos were shown of Megan from a fetish website.

The photos made my skin chill and straightaway the film decided it sucked at comedy and decided it should rear its ugly head. Leaving behind the news reports, the police find Amy's video camera discarded in a bin. On the tape are 22 minutes of basically Josh or whatever his name, torturing, humiliating, raping Amy, revealing the dead Megan and then finally burying Amy alive with the dead Megan. All I can say to this part is that it really was unnecessary, it dragged out far too long, hearing Amy pleading for 10 minutes before finally being buried was not only horrible but unnecessary, we get the point and you think if I watch all this brutality we'll see karma get Josh or whoever this sicko is, guess what he gets away.

And the girls remain missing. CREDITS ROLL

I understand this film makes a point and has a message but I wanted the comeuppance of the guy. Hostel was brilliant in that aspect, though you sat through torture and pain, the antagonists got what they deserved. Here it doesn't happen, like Wolf Creek all over again. My friend Sarah decided to watch it not believing me that this film was horrible and regretted it.  Although more questions arose. Why throw the film tape away into a bin, that's evidence that could be used against him and also surely a sicko would want a momento of the time with his victims to replay it. Its quite easy all these answers, they needed a story and footage to form this film, hence all these plotlines. I'm not going to lie, I felt sorry for Megan and Amy, regardless of their stupidity, they were just young girls. Megan thought it was the beginning of something special, perhaps Love and poor Amy must have been too naive and perhaps dim but she still didn't deserve any of what happened. And this is why I love Law and Order SVU. My favourite detectives catch criminals like these and put them behind bars where they deserve.