Seemingly this film was based on a real event which occurred at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. I haven't checked up on the details but I am guessing it would be fair to say that the terminology should be 'loosely based' on real events, as the premise of this one centres around a missing eight-year-old boy who vanished in a flash of light, leading to a team of paranormal experts to pitch up at the ranch to investigate while recording the increasingly strange goings on.Skinwalkers could be described as a cross between a docudrama and a found-footage film. It seems as though it doesn't have the best reputation but I have to say I don't agree with this assessment, as I found this to be a pretty involving low-budget genre flick. It's a movie whose premise openly invites ambiguity and the film-makers certainly are not shy in leaving things unexplained in this one. There are all manner of strange events which unfold here, including a giant nocturnal wolf creature, a strange cave replete with unusual drawings, an alien creature, a ghostly child, vehicles that auto destruct in the night and an old VHS tape which contains clues to the mystery. While in the background there appears to be people watching from afar, implying that there is an involvement of a shady secret government organisation in the mix too. So, there really is quite a bit going on with this one and a lot of things have been thrown together. For me, the lack of explaining wasn't very much of a concern because I think that quite often questions are more interesting than answers. I would therefore recommend this one to people who don't mind open-ended mysteries that allow for personal interpretation. On the whole, I thought this was an interesting movie.

Incredibly bad in almost every possible way. If the director had been jumping up and down waving his hands in front of the camera for 84 minutes it would undoubtedly have made more captivating cinema. Try to imagine the worst movie ever, times a 1000 and you are not yet even close to understanding just how horribly shitty this pile of crap is. The recipe for this bucket of vomit is as follows: Copy all the scariest parts of every found footage horror movie made since 2004, then copy all the most annoying parts of every budget-UFO movies made since 2004, throw in a werewolf, an wise old Indian, some "scary" kids, and a handful of people who have a dream of becoming actors. Sprinkle with a few tons of hand-held-camera disturbance/glitch effects. Mix it all up, do not worry about plot, coherency or acting skills, as long as you got all the other ingredients. Compared to this garbage Sharknado should be getting Oscars and Palme d'Ors.

The low rating on here for this film is astounding. Then again, this -is- IMDb.Skinwalker Ranch is a great independent found-footage film. One of the best I've ever seen, actually. The acting was phenomenal, the characters believable, the story was interesting, lots of suspense and freakiness, and the special effects were pretty great too. Unlike some people, I don't mind found-footage elements and effects, as long as they're done right.This is just another very underrated film. I hope it - and the ranch itself - gain more attention.

Skinwalker Ranch (2013) Here we go with yet another found footage movie, I seen some very bad ones this year like Unaware and others, I don't even what to mention, however I am clad to say this movie does not fit into the same place. This turns out to be one of better Found footage movies that I have seen in a while. I thought it was really good. I loved the open scenes of the movie as a 10 year old s boy, who seem to disappear in the farm on his Birthday after a blue flash of light and then something else appears is in the same places where the boy was standing. (This scenes it's self was better then the whole movie of Unaware) A scientific research team investigates and documents the supernatural phenomena surrounding the disappearance of a cattle rancher's 10 year old son.Normal this kinds of movies take a while to get going, we get to know people in 5-10 minutes. I did not find this movie boring at all, as it didn't not take for strange thing to happen and there are a lot of strange stuff happens and it's not just one thing. A lot various strange things happen in this movie, the only problem is that, there far too many different things happen, there no real memorable scenes in this movie, not enough time on them, Acting was great from the whole cast, movie flowed really well and I loved it, as I said before the movie dose suffer as it's try to add too much into in short amount off time.Really good and I had fun watching it, also the movie did make me Jump once 7 out of 10