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Doctors are baffled when a woman in her seventh month of pregnancy awakes to find that the fetus has disappeared. While the police treat the situation as a missing-child case, the mother's husband and brother are the only ones who trust her story.
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Keith Phipps The Dissolve 07/11/2013
1.5/5
There's nothing here the best entries in V/H/S didn't do better in 10 minutes or less, and with the decency to kill off their unbearable protagonists much faster. Go to Full Review
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News 07/04/2013
1/5
It's been 15 years - can we stop remaking "The Blair Witch Project" already? Go to Full Review
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times 07/04/2013
2.5/5
Mundane conversations and outings drag on while the central mystery takes baby steps forward, suggesting that a shorter running time or a more developed script might have better served the originality of the premise. Go to Full Review
Abbie Bernstein Assignment X 01/26/2019
C+
Absence has its moments, but in its determination not to be sensationalistic, it winds up often being far too low-key for its own good. Go to Full Review
Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 07/03/2013
8.88/10
Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets The Blair Witch Project. Hair-raising, chilling and riveting. It will scare the living daylights out of you. Go to Full Review
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07/01/2016 Ugh sooo booooooring! if you've logged on to Flixster or rotten tomatoes to see what others are saying about this movie because you've started to watch it and you're now wondering "Is this ever going to get any better?" - it doesn't. or maybe you're wondering "Does this story ever develop into anything other than the thuddingly obvious?" - again it doesn't. "Is there at least a payoff if I sit through all these long irritating unnecessary scenes of 4 unlikable characters being boring?" YES! A sad trombone. gwah-gwah-gwah... See more 04/09/2015 The only reason I gave this movie one star is because the storyline had a lot of potential. The acting was horrible. The handheld camera/homemade film style was executed incredibly poorly. If this movie had been filmed in a regular third person type style and had different actors, it probably would've been better. I was unbelievably disappointed. See more 12/21/2014 Found Footage is usually movies I enjoy, but this was bad. It was almost like someone dug up their own vacation footage, and then edited half a dozen scenes to include blue lights and an alien figure. See more 02/02/2014 I actually enjoyed the acting, the dialogue, and the suspense...but much like "The Devil Inside," it seemed to lack a compelling third act. See more 01/24/2014 This is The Fourth Kind meets Paranormal Activity in a really bad way. Most of the dialogue is unnecessary, trying too hard to make it seem real. Unfortunately, what that did is lose my interest in the process. See more Steve S 01/10/2014 ★1/2 (out of four) I started watching this film the other night on Netflix and could not believe that I found myself watching yet another 'found footage' film. I am all for low budget independent cinema, but...the downside is that this genre has given any moron who can work a cheap video camera the opportunity to make a movie. On the minor plus side, the acting isn't as terrible as I had expected. The lead actor (Ryan Smale) plays one of those obnoxious characters that filmmakers somehow think are cool. He, however, is so annoying that he is the type most people try to avoid when they see him at parties. Evan (Smale) wants to be a filmmaker, so he decides to film everything. His focus moves to his sister, who has recently been pregnant, but when iys time to give birth the child has disappeared from her body. Evan decides to film the painful healing process. [img]http://content9.flixster.com/rtmovie/10/43/104367_gal.png[/img] See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Doctors are baffled when a woman in her seventh month of pregnancy awakes to find that the fetus has disappeared. While the police treat the situation as a missing-child case, the mother's husband and brother are the only ones who trust her story.
Director
Jimmy Loweree
Producer
Jimmy Loweree, Michael Angelo Covino, P.J. Johal
Screenwriter
Jimmy Loweree
Distributor
Cinedigm
Production Co
Radcliffe Pictures
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 5, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 7, 2014
Runtime
1h 22m
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