Unedited Footage of a Bear

Unedited Footage of a Bear

Directed by Ben O'Brien, Alan Resnick

Produced by Williams Street, Adult Swim

201411 min7.0 / 10

A deliberately obscure found-footage piece that uses formal ambiguity and mounting dread to transform mundane footage into something unsettling and philosophically strange.

This is unedited raw footage of a bear I filmed with my cell phone. I'm not sure what kind of bear this is.

Questions people ask

  • Is Unedited Footage of a Bear scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 95% of films.

  • Does Unedited Footage of a Bear end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is Unedited Footage of a Bear easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is Unedited Footage of a Bear sad? Not especially. Less sad than 59% of films.

  • Is Unedited Footage of a Bear violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

87/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

There is almost nothing else like this.

Rarity95

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise96

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love70

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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