I enjoy found footage type of movies. When done right, they can really be chilling and it's a horror that hits different because it doesn't look staged. But this.. the people are just bad. The Rapunzel one was creepy but only because the girl with black hair just had a creepy look to her face in the light that was unsettling to see. But besides that, this just looks like a bad school play...

It says I need to have more to the review so I'll add this. When I first heard of the movie, I thought it would be like VHS. I enjoyed VHS because it was creepy and did freak me out with the stories. But Evil Tapes just seems to be about people who have mental problems but the actors are bad at acting.

So, if you are looking for a movie that is genuinely scary, and has an engaging story, literally watch anything but this, and The Conjuring movies. T's not really scary and most things don't make sense. However, despite these issues, the movie is hilarious if you dont take it seriously, and im 95% sure this was the intent. The script and acting was so awkward, that you will have to continously pause the movie from laugher, which turns the 1 Hour 15 minutes run time, into about 1:50. Not to mention Jeff the killer shows up, and Mandela Catalogue images are used. If the movie was supposed to be bad, than they absolutely have created a masterpiece and applaud how they did it. I have to give it a 9/10, simply because it isn't a good movie, even if it's extremely entertaining.

If you're into indie anthology films that feature disjointed vignettes that make absolutely no sense whatsoever, then this, my friend, is the movie for you. All of the stories basically start in the middle. There's no history, no backstop, no build up. As the viewer, you're in the thick of things right from Jump Street.

The first two stories just end abruptly, with no discernible resolution. They just stop. Each story revolves around a videographer who was hired to film or record a specific setting, or a sequence of events. This is where the "found footage" angle comes into play. Each director or producer of the individual stories must have a fetish for dark-haired women running around in white nightgowns, as there is at least one such character in the first three stories. I can't tell you how many total stories comprise this movie; I stopped watching the film about halfway through the third story. A recurring them, completely idiotic, is that the person hiring the videographer explicitly tells them to record everything, and then proceeds to chastise the recorder every five minutes or so for recording everything.

I've seen hundreds of bad horror movies, and I actually like quite a few of them. This one isn't just bad, however; it's irretrievably, irredeemably stupid. IMDB should institute a negative star ranking system specifically for movies as idiotic as this one is.