The Levenger Tapes (2013)

Chase invites Amanda and her best friend Kim to his parents cabin for the weekend.  They don’t know him very well. Amanda agreed to go because she’s sad about her recent break up and Chase seems like a nice guy.  She is about to find out he’s a manipulative, gaslighting idiot.

When Chase asks them to stop at a store, he steals beer, runs back to the car and tells Amanda to floor it.  On the way out of the parking lot, they hit a car pulling in. Chase screams to keep going. Amanda is worried they’ll get in trouble for the hit and run, but Chase says the locals are hicks so they’re fine.  He also says she’ll learn about what a fun guy he is. Nothing creepy about that.

Later at the house, he tests his cameras zoom by aiming it towards a fire far away. They see a man, a little girl, and a car with one headlight. It’s the people they hit earlier. Amanda is worried, while Chase says they need to walk over to apologize. It will be fine. He’ll just say they’re dumb kids and the man will forgive them. 

Rather than drive over, Chase decides they’ll walk one mile through the wilderness to get to the fire. After crossing a barbed wire fence his father said never to cross, Chase tells them they’re in a Native American burial ground.  The women want to go back, but Chase protests saying he didn’t hide anything from them. Yet when they asked why there was a fence, he said he didn’t know. 

The campsite is deserted, but Amanda finds a bloody hair bow and what appears to be the little girls dress. She wants to call the police but Chase says it’s none of their business. Arguments ensue, people disappear, they get lost and a new problem arises as there is something in the wilderness that may be stalking them. Another movie where terrified people hide in the dark, only to leave their freaking light on, which will lead the predator right to them.

Intercut with this nonsense is footage of a police station where we discover the three college students are missing. The police have Chase’s tapes and are watching the footage to determine if they can figure out their location. 

At the point of the hit and run, one of the detectives asks to look at the footage again.  There was a little girl that went missing twenty years earlier. She was never found. He spent a lot of time on that case and he swears the girl in the car is the missing girl. Yet how is that the same girl when it’s been twenty years?

Ridiculous dialogue

Kim: That was totally a hit and run.

Amanda: What? No.

Kim: And now we’re going to be on the news when we get arrested for it.

Chase: Stop Kim. You’re so melodramatic. These hicks are not ever going to be able to find us out here.

I’m a fun guy. You’ll learn that about me. 

Kim: You don’t even know him that well. How do you know he’s not hiding in the bushes laughing his ass off?

Amanda: He wouldn’t do that.