Ryan (the film's writer Ryan McCoy) is shooting a documentary on best friend Brett's (Brett Rosenberg, FEAR OF FLYING) first camping experience. Along for the trip are Ryan's girlfriend Abby (Abigail Richie, KNOCK KNOCK KILLERS) and her friend Ashley (Ashley Bracken). They secure an RV (from a guy who does porn) and head out into the woods and into a "no trespassing" area. Brett thinks a "documentary" of him getting drunk and falling down a lot won't be very interesting, but Ryan has "a plan." Strange hissing sounds in the night are not enough to disturb their sub-"Girls Gone Wild" partying antics, but the broad daylight sighting of a silhouetted Bigfoot-esque figure in the ravine has Brett and the girls turning on Ryan (who Brett reveals has some sociopathic leanings that extend beyond his HDCAM voyeurism). Ryan thinks - or so he says - that they are being pranked by some other campers (one backwoods example of whom dropped by their campfire the night before); however, when their RV is trashed and one of their number goes missing, Ryan's "documentary" takes a turn into that oh-so-familiar "found footage" genre territory...

EVIDENCE starts off like your average "found footage" horror movie, but the filmmakers seem aware of the over-familiarity of the concept and spike the dialogue with some suggestive throw-away lines. The strange sounds in the woods bit is business as usual, as are the "running with the camera when any sane person would have ditched it" in favor of survival (actually, it seems to be a rule here that whoever relinquishes the camera is likely the next victim). The film does take a surprising turn in its final act that enlarges the scope of the story (although the technical aspects and aesthetics of this part are no different from what you would encounter in like-budgeted more conventionally-filmed examples). EVIDENCE hasn't re-invented the "found footage" film, but it admirably attempts to keep complacent fans on their toes.