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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 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. Rated: 1.5/5 Jul 11, 2013 Full Review Joe Neumaier New York Daily News It's been 15 years - can we stop remaking "The Blair Witch Project" already? Rated: 1/5 Jul 4, 2013 Full Review Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times 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. Rated: 2.5/5 Jul 4, 2013 Full Review Abbie Bernstein Assignment X 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. Rated: C+ Jan 26, 2019 Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 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. Rated: 8.88/10 Jul 3, 2013 Full Review Maitland McDonagh Film Journal International The lives of a small-town couple eagerly anticipating the birth of their first child are shattered when they lose the baby under suspicious circumstances in this creepy psychological thriller that plays out very differently than its early scenes suggest. Jul 3, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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kevin c In a world filled with way too many hand held/found footage films this one does something that the majority of them don't. It entertains you. A young couple who've just had a Caesarean section and had their baby stolen, take a trip to the mountains with her brother, who films everything for a school project, to lift his sisters spirits when odd occurrences begin to transpire. I dug this one, as it wasn't easy to predict where it was going. And the character filming was kind of funny. Worth a look. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 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... Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member I actually enjoyed the acting, the dialogue, and the suspense...but much like "The Devil Inside," it seemed to lack a compelling third act. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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