Frogman (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 13 Oct 2023
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 win & 2 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21377766/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frogman
• Metacritics:
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: min
• Writer: Anthony Cousins, John Karsko
• Director: Anthony Cousins
• Cast: Nathan Tymoshuk, Benny Barrett, Ali Daniels
• Keywords: monster, based on true story, creature, creature feature, found footage, horror comedy,

4.5/10

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Just another laughable found footage movie with shoddy camera work…

When I stumbled upon the 2023 horror movie “Frogman”, I was initially drawn in by the movie’s cover. I have to admit that I found it rather interesting. I had never heard about the movie, so I didn’t know what I was in for here from director Anthony Cousins.

Right, well had I known that this would be one of those dubious movies that is filmed on someone’s dad’s camera, complete with shoddy camera work all over the place, then I wouldn’t have given it a time of day. I have to admit that I am not a fan of foud footage and movie that look and feel like they were made by a group of teenagers attending High School video club. And “Frogman” was exactly that.

The best part about “Frogman”, aside from when it ended, definitely had to be the scene where Dallas brought out a flute and started randomly playing in the forest to lure out the frogman. Pure cinematic genius writing right there.

Needless to say that I wasn’t familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. But, despite the questionable concept and shoddy camera work, then the acting performances in “Frogman” were actually fair enough. Fair is fair, and just because the presentation of the movie was a dumpster fire, then the actors and actresses deserve due credit.

The effects in “Frogman” were just as questionable as the rest of the movie. And whenever something even remotely good is about to happen or happening, lo and behold, the camera starts glitching and gets static. This is just lazy film making at its finest.

I will never become a fan of movies that are shot and presented in a way that is even more shoddy and questionable than what I can do with my own digital video camera. And “Frogman” was one such movie, so this was definitely not my cup of tea.

My rating of “Frogman” lands on a one out of ten stars.

Not as bad as a 2, but a 10? Seriously?!

I stumbled across Frogman and, as ever, I immediately question it when I see a 2/10 and a 10/10 review next to each other. It actually drives me to watch a film so I can call out the fake!

And it was quickly clear which one it was.

I usually enjoy about fifteen minutes of any found footage movies – and that was true of Frogman. But overly long exposition, poor pacing and heavy handed use of glitch effects that many such films suffer from, were all present here in spades:

The build up to the first visit to Frogman Point was waaay too long (almost forty minutes) and did little to build tension, and the more intimate conversations between the friends dragged somewhat. Scenes of running through trees at night shouldn’t last that long either. The glitch effects became very intrusive, very quickly.

The acting standard was variable, ranging from ‘recent drama school grad’ to ‘been at it a while but not getting far’. Some actors displayed both ends of that spectrum in their performances.

I applaud the use of a practical creature rather than CGI, but they didn’t quite pull it off. The hackneyed ‘flashlight light cuts out, panic for five seconds, flashlight comes on, frogman is hanging upside down behind them’ scene was a (presumably unintended) laugh out loud moment that I had to watch again.

The humour that some of the external reviews talk about as being such a strong feature of the film, well, I didn’t see much that was notably funny (in the right way). That being said, the No Parking sign did make me laugh.

Without revealing the plot twist too much, I liked the reveal of a third party group just over an hour into the film.

Overall, the film was far from horrible, and had they worked on overcoming, rather than exaggerating, the typical found footage flaws, it could have garnered a 6/10 from me. For me, though, it’s consigned to the pile of ‘watch with friends and giggle for the wrong reasons’.

So, how about that 10 star review? You decide!