The phoenix incident, where truth battles fiction aced magazine. Father of arizona man missing in desert wont give up. On thursday, march, 1997 a strange event occurred in the nighttime skies of phoenix, arizona. There is also a found footagesyfythriller movie that just came out that is based on the disappearances. Its 1997 and on march th a weird event occurred and labeled the phoenix lights. Alleged leaked classified ufo video released by fake news. The filming is mostly done by one of the two brothers and he basically films them drinking and goofing off as well as arguments and hiking through the desert. On april 21, a film based loosely on the phoenix lights hits theaters. The phoenix indecent is a found footage film and mockumentary written and directed by keith arem. Phoenix, az unlike thousands of missing persons cases, the 1997 disappearance of daniel adams 29yearold son mitchell adams and his three friends prompted hundreds of volunteers to help police search and spawned local media coverage which resulted in an outpouring of sympathy across arizona. Film presents what if story on the phoenix lights youtube. Phoenix forgotten blurs the line between fact and fiction.
The phoenix incident takes the subject of alien sightings and possible abduction a step further citing an actual happening that the filmmakers say was a cover up. The phoenix incident, where truth battles fiction aced. But it also borrows motioncapture techniques and staging from the world of video games. The phoenix incident is the first found footage film covering the phoenix lights and also had the good fortune of having a theatrical release, a rare occurrence for a found footage film. On march, 1997 thousands of people claimed to have simultaneously witnessed unexplainable lights in the phoenix, arizona night sky. Phoenix forgotten tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. That included the thenstate governor fife symington. Apr 11, 2016 ultimately, the phoenix incident is more impressive for its ingenious publicity and marketing campaigns, including fake web news sites that went viral, than the quality of the filmmaking. The phoenix incident a carefully disguised hoax to. The film has exceptional pacing, good acting, incredible cgi, and nonstop action. The film follows four friends on a weekend getaway who find themselves at the epicenter of what is now known as the phoenix lights incident. Apr 06, 2016 the phoenix incident is set to abduct audiences this friday, april 8th in select u. Dec 02, 2014 im quite sure that this is all part of a viral campaign for the movie the phoenix incident. Rent phoenix incident 2016 starring troy baker and liam obrien on dvd and bluray.
On march, 1997 thousands of people claimed to have simultaneously witnessed unexplainable lights in phoenix. Presented as a documentary found footage film based on real events, it is set in the present day and focuses upon an alleged conspiracy behind the. Presented as a documentary found footage film based on real events, it is set in the present day. The phoenix incident is a 2015 american science fiction and conspiracy thriller film written and directed by first time director keith arem, and starring yuri. I went into this expecting another uber low budget adlbbed found footage but got something entirely different, hence the high rating.
Written and directed by gaming director keith arem call of duty, titanfall and starring troy baker famed gaming actor the film uses whistleblower testimony, recovered military footage and eyewitness accounts to create this scifi thriller and explore the us. Using the real events of the 1997 phoenix lights ufo sighting and the simultaneous disappearance of four young men in the area, writerdirector. Apr 21, 2017 director justin barber tells his own xfiles story inspired by reallife events. The phoenix lights sometimes called the lights over phoenix were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects or ufos observed in the skies over the u. Phoenix forgotten 2017 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Feb 29, 2016 new ufo thriller the phoenix incident goes beyond the theater to investigate a mysterious episode that occurred two decades ago in the arizona skies. The phoenix incident 2015 stream and watch online moviefone. The websites about the fictitious disappearance of these men were part of an excellent multimedia viral marketing scheme for the phoenix incident 2015 movie. Despite clues being imbedded in the wikipedia articles as well as the website devoted to reporting the incident of the missing men the track back to the phoenix incident website which is the name of the film as well as other obscure clues in the sources cited, i find this kind of viral marketing to be reprehensible in that it just. If you look at the photos of the missing men, and match against the cast of the movie on their imdb page, you will see that they are the same people. Phoenix forgotten, produced by ridley scott, follows three teens in 1997 who venture out into the desert with their camcorders, hoping to see more of the lights above the city. Released 2015, the phoenix incident stars troy baker, yuri lowenthal, travis willingham, liam obrien the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 21 min, and received a score of out of 100 on.
The phoenix incident 2015 the phoenix incident 2015. Apr 21, 2017 on april 21, a film based loosely on the phoenix lights hits theaters. This alien thriller, written and directed by gaming director keith arem chronicles the events of march, 1997 when witnesses reported seeing lights in phoenix. The phoenix incident is a 2015 american science fiction and conspiracy thriller film written and directed by first time director keith arem, and starring yuri lowenthal, troy baker, liam obrien, michael adamthwaite, jamie tisdale and brian bloom. Crowding around it to try to keep the story going is a very long framing device of a documentary chronicling the story of the coverup of the phoenix lights incident, involving the military, a crazy religious man as a red herring, and a supposed ongoing war against aliens that has been fought throughout the middle east and africa prior to.
The real phoenix lights was the mostwitnessed ufo event in u. The phoenix lights become an incident skeptical inquirer. For entertainment the fictional account makes for a good thriller and for that the phoenix incident achieves its purpose. Beyond that, the documentary opening and the facts it provides becomes an informational movie on which audiences can get more. Mar, 2019 the film told the story of sarah bishop, a documentary filmmaker who returned to phoenix 20 years after her brother disappeared investigating the phoenix lights. The phoenix incident is named after a real event that occurred on march, 1997 in phoenix, arizona, when thousands of people, including thenstate governor fife symington, claimed to have. Its almost ironic not ironic that after i had praised phoenix tapes 97 for using an actual 90s camera and not relying on unconvincing video effects, this film the phoenix incident relies on unconvincing video effects. The phoenix tapes 97 is a found footage scifihorror film with an anonymous writer, director, and cast. With yuri lowenthal, travis willingham, troy baker, liam obrien.
The phoenix tapes 97 is about two brothers and two friends who venture fifty miles into the arizona desert in an rv to find a remote fishing hole. This grade z paranoid scifi thriller about ufos speculates on the fate of four witless yahoos who come out on the short end of an encounter with angry. Ufo that could prove phoenix lights incident once and for. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
With florence hartigan, luke spencer roberts, chelsea lopez, justin matthews. The phoenix incident is a heartpounding thriller based on this real life event. Apr 24, 2017 phoenix forgotten tests the limits of the label, telling a fictional story of three teens abducted two weeks after the phoenix lights, one of the most prominent ufo sightings in recent history. The phoenix lights incident is an actual mass ufo sighting that took place in the. The phoenix incident is based on the largest ufo sighting in north america known as the phoenix lights. This alien thriller, written and directed by gaming director keith arem chronicles the events of march, 1997 when witnesses reported seeing lights in phoenix, arizona and sparked the military coverup of the largest ufo sighting in us history. Phoenix incident mixes fact and scifi in a creative, bold. I didnt know this film, the phoenix incident, was going to follow the same route. In addition to being able to experience this exciting film, event attendees will be exposed to an exclusive 5minute documentary about ufo sightings and. Blurring the line between fiction and reality, the factbased, scifi thriller revolves around a military conspiracy and the controversial missing persons case surrounding the infamous phoenix lights. More than 20 years later, mystery of phoenix lights still. Blurring the line between fiction and reality, the factbased, scifi. The film is structured as a documentary investigation of the events leading up to and following the disappearance of four campers on march 14, 1997, the date of the famous phoenix lights incident this film is the first of three found footage features created about the phoenix lights.
An investigation into the disappearance of 4 arizona men exposes a military coverup of the largest ufo sighting in the u. Apr 08, 2016 the phoenix incident takes the subject of alien sightings and possible abduction a step further citing an actual happening that the filmmakers say was a cover up. Jun 05, 2016 ufo that could prove phoenix lights incident once and for all caught on stunning film a startling video capturing a ufo described as being like those seen in the worlds most inexplicable mass. Transmedia film explores the phoenix incident usa today. The smoking gun though, is the characters names in the movie match the missing persons names.
Keith arams mockumentary uses foundfootage to purportedly uncover the mystery behind the reallife incident involving strange lights over. A new motion picture, the phoenix incident, was being promoted in a big way at this years ufo congress, with a large desk in the vendors area proclaiming the truth is coming and handing out cheesy little boomerangs labeled with the film title. Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 19. On that same night, four young men went missing in the nearby estrella mountain regional park, never to be seen again. The phoenix incident official trailer 1 2016 scifi thriller hd. It came out earlier this year but it had a long viral marketing campaign behind it. Now the sighting is the basis for a movie called the phoenix incident. Like 2008s cloverfield, the phoenix incident relies in part on fake found footage. Ultimately, the phoenix incident is more impressive for its ingenious publicity and marketing campaigns, including fake web news sites that went viral, than the quality of the filmmaking. New thriller the phoenix incident explores a ufo incident two decades ago in arizona. What we have here is a damn good mockumentary that utilizes an actual incident, the 1997 ufo sightings in phoenix, and builds a tense story around four men that supposedly went missing and the events surrounding it that tell a far more sinister picture.
Rent phoenix incident 2016 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Phoenix incident mixes fact and scifi in a creative, bold alien. Phoenix forgotten, produced by ridley scott, follows three teens in 1997 who venture out into the desert with their. Feb 29, 2016 its just a couple of weeks from the 19th anniversary of the phoenix lights, a mass ufo sighting on march, 1997. Phoenix incident 2016 rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
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