FilmPG-13Found Footage Sci-Fi Horror Survival

Phoenix Forgotten2017

Name: Phoenix Forgotten
Genre: Found Footage, Sci-Fi Horror, Survival
Released: 2017-04-21
Rating: 5.3

“Based on Shocking, Untold True Events.”

Directed by Justin Barber

5.3

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.4Rotten Tomatoes 53%Metacritic 33TMDB 6.3

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Year

2017

Runtime

87 min

Box Office

Budget

$2,800,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$3,600,000

Domestic

$3,600,146

🏆 1 nomination total

The premise

Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

Horror Vault's take

When footage surfaces two decades after three Arizona teens vanished beneath a sky full of unexplained lights, it pulls audiences into a chilling first-person account of their final hours. Framed as a documentary investigation, Phoenix Forgotten weaves archival material with the recovered recordings to reconstruct a mystery that was never solved. The further the camera rolls, the more the teenagers' desperate search for answers closes in around them — and around us.

Content: Intense Peril, Found Footage Disorientation, Disturbing Imagery