Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- disturbing
- paranoid
- frantic
- late night horror viewing
- found footage marathon
What critics said
Critics overwhelmingly rejected the film as an ineffectual and derivative entry in the found-footage horror cycle.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The detective reconstructs a massacre through video footage shot by the victims.
The plot explicitly relies on misleading information within recovered footage.
The massacre occurs at an abandoned gas station, making the setting a central source of dread.
Detective Reese and Detective Burquez hunt the killer by examining victim-shot video evidence.
Films like Evidence, and why
The Blair Witch Project
found-footage horror, amateur video evidence, and escalating investigation
V/H/S
found-footage structure, multiple perspectives, and violent survival horror
Sinister
police investigation, recovered recordings, and mystery-driven horror
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
crime thriller investigation shaped by misleading evidence and recorded violence
Movie Details
- Director
- Olatunde Osunsanmi
- Release Date
- 2013-07-19
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rating
- 5.6 / 10 (278)
Cast
- Torrey DeVitto
- Caitlin Stasey
- Harry Lennix
- Stephen Moyer
- Nolan Gerard Funk
- Radha Mitchell
- Svetlana Metkina
- Aml Ameen
- Albert Kuo
- Dale Dickey
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Philo
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Evidence about?
- A detective reconstructs a gas-station massacre from the victims’ own recordings, uncovering a trail of violent and deceptive evidence.
- What is Evidence like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Evidence as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Evidence violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Evidence as graphic.
- What did critics think of Evidence?
- Critics overwhelmingly rejected the film as an ineffectual and derivative entry in the found-footage horror cycle.
- Which films are like Evidence?
- Films with a similar feel include The Blair Witch Project, V/H/S, Sinister, and The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
- How long is Evidence?
- Evidence runs 93 minutes.
- Where can I watch Evidence?
- In United States, Evidence streams on Philo.
