This movie unsuccessfully tries to marry the found footage style movies with a more traditional horror. They trade off actual scares for things you can't really see and aren't really afraid of. The general concept is... complete crap.
Jon Foster plays just some guy who managed to make enough money to decide that he wasn't going to do anything useful this side of making a wildlife documentary. He has no crew, no plan, a couple of okay cameras, no real understanding of wildlife, no timeline, no funding, and is generally unprepared for life. He is, however, a moderate hipster left-wing refuser of technology that he has grown dependent on, so he's got that going for him.
Sarah Jones plays Jon's hippie wife. You may (although you probably don't) remember her from the short-lived TV series Alcatraz where criminals who were held in the prison were coming back from the dead. Well, that may suck as a story, but it was better than the one here. Sarah never gets completely topless on camera, but she is not afraid to show off the girls in an abundance of detail. They are clearly her best assets, and it is just and right that she should try to make a name off of them.
We never see Mark Steger's face. He is the titular Mr. Jones, and he is thought of as a strange, reclusive artist who builds lots of... statues? Totems? Scarecrows? Creepy tree-based, animal carcass- strewn hunks of pseudo-humanoid thingies? He lives in a shack in the middle of nowhere (just a few miles from our hero couple) and has (for no explained reason) sent some of these things to random people all over the world.
From the actual cameras they are supposed to be using to third person cameras that are filming the movie from an omnipotent view that most movies use to the sudden, rapid switch from one camera to another to another to a flash of light to a flashback to a dream to a statue to the landscape to another camera to a mirror to a possible future to a bird to a window to another statue to another camera are all attempts by the editor to make this movie watchable, and it fails. Good try, though.
Direction was bad
Acting was meh
Story was bad
Cinematography was bad
Effects were bad
0.5/5