Just not very much to it. Nothing new. Nothing that stood out. Not really scary. Not very entertaining. Maybe some good looking actors but thats about it.
9 Reviews
Found footage dud.
wandernn1-81-6832744 January 2020
Too confusing to be fun
Armin_Nikkhah_Shirazi30 April 2024
ERASMUS, it seems, refers to a program for students who are citizens of the EU to study in other countries and more. The official summary says it "is the EU's programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. It has an estimated budget of 26.2 billion euros."
So, following a prologue depicting the murder of a British Erasmus student, this found footage movie documents the experiences of an international group of EU Erasmus students in Barcelona who go out together to party, booze and hook up, but end up facing mortal danger.
Barcelona seems to be a hot spot for found footage movies, since I know of several which are set there: REC (2007), REC 2 (2009) APARTMENT 143 (2011) and HOOKED UP (2013). All of these are much better and especially more fun than this movie.
There are two major problems:
First, the characters are very 2-dimensional, and most them are neither very likable nor memorable, despite the fact that the cast is unusually good-looking.
Second, during the action scenes it is hard to tell what is going on as many scenes are too dark, and combined with our detachment from the characters, this turns the hectic proceedings into a very uninvolving one, if not a complete mess. Because of that, the double twist at the end, which I presume was meant to surprise the audience, can at best elicit a shoulder shrug.
It is too bad because the movie had some things going for it: unlike most other found footage movies, which tend to reward sitting through a movie in slow burn mode with a few minutes of frantic action at the end, the pace picks up relatively early and doesn't let up. This is something I do appreciate.
Also, there is a lesson that in matters of love, mortal danger has tremendous power to clarify where one stands, but it gets wasted on characters about whom we don't care that much.
Altogether, this is a disappointing effort because it had the potential to be a top notch found footage horror film.
So, following a prologue depicting the murder of a British Erasmus student, this found footage movie documents the experiences of an international group of EU Erasmus students in Barcelona who go out together to party, booze and hook up, but end up facing mortal danger.
Barcelona seems to be a hot spot for found footage movies, since I know of several which are set there: REC (2007), REC 2 (2009) APARTMENT 143 (2011) and HOOKED UP (2013). All of these are much better and especially more fun than this movie.
There are two major problems:
First, the characters are very 2-dimensional, and most them are neither very likable nor memorable, despite the fact that the cast is unusually good-looking.
Second, during the action scenes it is hard to tell what is going on as many scenes are too dark, and combined with our detachment from the characters, this turns the hectic proceedings into a very uninvolving one, if not a complete mess. Because of that, the double twist at the end, which I presume was meant to surprise the audience, can at best elicit a shoulder shrug.
It is too bad because the movie had some things going for it: unlike most other found footage movies, which tend to reward sitting through a movie in slow burn mode with a few minutes of frantic action at the end, the pace picks up relatively early and doesn't let up. This is something I do appreciate.
Also, there is a lesson that in matters of love, mortal danger has tremendous power to clarify where one stands, but it gets wasted on characters about whom we don't care that much.
Altogether, this is a disappointing effort because it had the potential to be a top notch found footage horror film.
Well....
hcampbell-7047313 August 2018
...that's 75 minutes I'm never getting back. I have a soft spot for found footage horror movies and can usually find something redeeming in even the most amateurish of efforts. I tried here, and can't. We have found the bottom of the found footage barrel and it it was in Spain, country of origin for this laughably inept "film".
Erase please: Not Interesting at All
tmccull527 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
"Erasmus" begins with the brutal murder of an English college student, attending University abroad. She is video-chatting with her mother, giving a remote tour of her lodgings. This goes on for a bit, and then the student goes off of her mother's view to investigate a noise. After a short time, she returns so that her mother can see her again, and she tells her mother that nothing is amiss.
As she is telling her mother that all is well, the mother can see a man in a white dress shirt and tie sneaking up on the student. While her mother is watching, this stranger beats the student to death. The mother is screaming helplessly for her daughter to fight back, but the stranger had blitz attacked the student, and swiftly dispatched her.
The movie cuts to a local news cast reporting the murder of the English student, and then to a group of friends attending Erasmus College or University, or whatever. One student plans to video-record the others whilethey're partying hearty. The members of this group are introduced in various scenes, all eager to drink themselves into stuporous, black-out oblivion. It's a varied, eclectic group of English, American, Italian, Dutch, French, Russian, and Spanish friends, so languages fluctuate between English and the various other languages.
Everyone in this movie is so annoying and so cliched that I was rooting for the killer all of the way through. Chances are, you will, too. The young woman who planned to video-record her friends getting stink-faced is so stupid that she forgot that she left her camera on, on the bed, while she got jiggy with her boyfriend. She realizes her unintentional indiscretion after the fact, and laughs it off.
As for the killer; I didn't care about his nationality or ethnic origins. I only wanted him to be ruthless, swift, and efficient as he picked this international pack of idiots off one-by-one.
As she is telling her mother that all is well, the mother can see a man in a white dress shirt and tie sneaking up on the student. While her mother is watching, this stranger beats the student to death. The mother is screaming helplessly for her daughter to fight back, but the stranger had blitz attacked the student, and swiftly dispatched her.
The movie cuts to a local news cast reporting the murder of the English student, and then to a group of friends attending Erasmus College or University, or whatever. One student plans to video-record the others whilethey're partying hearty. The members of this group are introduced in various scenes, all eager to drink themselves into stuporous, black-out oblivion. It's a varied, eclectic group of English, American, Italian, Dutch, French, Russian, and Spanish friends, so languages fluctuate between English and the various other languages.
Everyone in this movie is so annoying and so cliched that I was rooting for the killer all of the way through. Chances are, you will, too. The young woman who planned to video-record her friends getting stink-faced is so stupid that she forgot that she left her camera on, on the bed, while she got jiggy with her boyfriend. She realizes her unintentional indiscretion after the fact, and laughs it off.
As for the killer; I didn't care about his nationality or ethnic origins. I only wanted him to be ruthless, swift, and efficient as he picked this international pack of idiots off one-by-one.
SAVE YOURSELF and your time
darthvicster12 May 2024
Do not watch this movie, please. The pacing was terrible, the acting was terrible, the plot was terrible and the slasher element was terrible. I am pretty open minded, so I continued watching with my friend all the way to the end and the joke was on us. None of the characters are likeable whatsoever. I have a feeling this movie was made for a college project and if that is the case then the college surely failed them for it. I could make a better movie on my cell phone where I play 5 different characters. I never write reviews, but I had to write one for this in the hopes to spare someone from the misery that is this movie.
GOOD FILM
dprietobcn14 December 2018
I lIKE THIS FILM
cineonlinegratisweb10 August 2020
Dialogues a bit basic
rotondasrd13 March 2022
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