Only thing that freaked me out where the two pictures. And even at that, it just looked like Sam from ICarly.

Megan Is Missing is the fictional account of two young girls who are seduced and kidnapped by a online predator. As a fan of mockumentaries and found footage films, I'd have to say that this ranks up there with some of the best ones in the horror genre. Mainly because it's very, deeply, incredibly unsettling. From a gore perspective, it's rather tame. There is not a single scene that shows someone actually being killed. It's mainly the aftermath that you see. I found that the way this story was told was brilliant, to be honest. Its relatively minimalist approach to backstory exposition, particularly regarding Megan's abuse as a child, is incredibly effective in establishing the causes for some of her extremely questionable actions in this film. She does things that are arguably nonsensical, but when she explains how she was molested as a ten year old by her camp counselor (in EXCRUCIATINGLY harrowing detail), you kind of understand why she does those things. Speaking of acting, I see reviews that chide the performances based mainly on decisions the girls and their friends make. They seem to forget that these are supposed to be relatively clueless teenage girls, and by default are SUPPOSED to make stupid decisions. Amber Perkins as Amy Herman is particularly good in her portrayal of an innocent 13-year old girl, convincing even as the horrible things that happen to her during the last act are happening. You really feel sorry for her as she pleads for her life, rather convincingly.And that last act...sheesh.Starting with the two photos of Megan that were found on the fake fetish website in the S & M contraption, broken, bruised, bloody, absolutely TERROR-STRICKEN...those all-too-brightly-lit pictures, coupled with what the film conveys about how evil the antagonist is, had me stunned. The stark, exposed, abject vulnerability in her eyes is something that sticks with me even as I type this.Also, the way the antagonist breaks the spirit and will of Amy in the final act is positively soul crushing. The part when he rapes her is as deplorable as anything I've seen in Irreversible, I Spit On Your Grave or Blindness. As a parent to a thirteen year old girl, this movie was really hard to watch. I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of found footage horror. Very, very, very disturbing stuff.

There are so many things wrong with this movie that I don't even know where to begin. I guess I will start with the format.I'm not a fan of found footage in general, but Megan is Missing is exceptionally lazy in that it barely even adheres to this conceit. In order for the movie to work we the audience are expected to belief that teenagers in 2007 communicate almost entirely via video chat and that these conversations were recorded and stored. We are also expected to believe that photos and video of sexual assaults and murders were made available to the filmmakers. Since the film is never once convincing as found footage I have to wonder why the writer / director chose to tell the story this way.The acting ranges from barely adequate to absolutely atrocious across the board. The two main actresses are never convincing as 14/15 year olds and their performances are mediocre at best. Everyone else who appears on camera - the news anchors, the parents, the other friends - is downright embarrassing. They are not helped at all by the largely expositional and tin eared dialogue.While I am sure there are 14 year old kids out there doing drugs and having sex at random, the portrayal of those types of teens in this film did not ring true to me at all. The pervy, leering tone of the film reminded me a lot of movies I've seen by Larry Clark, where we the audience are theoretically supposed to be wringing our hands over the wasted youth of today etc. but the camera keeps ogling the hot young bodies on screen.This is particularly true of a scene where Megan recounts being forced to blow a 17 year old camp counselor when she was 10, giggling about it the whole time like it is an embarrassing sexual story and not actual rape. There are several other scenes of unnecessary sexuality in the film including a rape scene that make me feel like the film is implying that Megan deserves what eventually happens to her. That, or director Michael Goi is just a pedophile.The first 50 or so minutes of the film almost entirely consist of banal, repetitive dialogue and bad acting. Then we get to the two pictures of Megan and the final 20 minutes. This is the point where Megan is Missing shifts from being a terrible after school special and instead becomes a sadistic found footage horror film. These scenes are undeniably a gut punch and the only reason to see the movie at all.Here's the thing though: To this point Goi has positioned the film as one of those message movies that are supposed to serve as a wake up call to parents. But the film ultimately is pervy and disgusting exploitation. The director's claim that Megan is Missing is about anything other than presenting the highly sexualized torture and murder of its main characters is completely disingenuous and reminded me a LOT of the opening crawl to Chaos (2005) claiming that it was intended to save lives.The ONLY audience for this film are horror fans looking for something disturbing. That is fine, but I'm just warning you the movie absolutely sucks, nothing happens for the vast majority of the run time and you'll feel like you need a shower afterward. Consider that a warning or an endorsement.

To put it in simple terms, it's seriously one of the worst movies I have ever seen It features some of the worst directing, acting, cinematography, logic and pretty much anything you can think of that is vital to the production of a movie. I can not take anyone seriously if they say they enjoyed this movie.Don't get me wrong, I get what they were aiming for, but they did it in the most illogical and unrealistic piece of s*** way possible! It's almost like Michael Goi doesn't know a single thing about the internet or teenagers in general, but we see him on reddit and IMDb all the time? Good Job Goi! (Who elected this guy president of the ASC? Seriously?)I also really don't understand how the movie managed to feature terrible acting from the ENTIRE cast, seriously how did all this get through editing and post-production?TL;DR Don't waste your time watching this movie, it is absolute garbage.