Project MKHEXE Review (2025)

Synopsis

After his brother Sean’s suicide, Tim, an aspiring filmmaker, uncovers Sean’s obsession with a deleted urban legend tied to a secret mind-control experiment.

As Tim investigates, compiling Sean’s notes and interviewing family and friends, he suspects Sean was murdered.

With help from Sean’s friend Nicole, Tim’s search for truth spirals into obsession, unraveling his grief and revealing a chilling reality.

My Thoughts on Project MKHEXE

Good Points

Creepy Digital Realism

Project MKHEXE nails that eerie sense of authenticity, and the lo-fi security footage, and multi-screen views all feel like something you shouldn’t be watching, which is what a good found footage movie should make you feel, but a lot don’t.

Strong Core

Project MKHEXE is about grief, obsession, and paranoia, and what loss and loneliness can do to someone’s mind, and in that aspect I thought it was a well done movie that added something on top of what you normally see in found footage.

Smart Commentary on Conspiracy Culture

The film captures the psychology of online paranoia perfectly, and how the internet feeds that obsession. “An absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,” sums up the dangerous logic of modern conspiracies that we see often in real life.

Psychological Depth

Sean’s “box of horrors”, with his notes, and watching his mental state deteriorate, gives it a tragic, personal edge that most found footage films really lack.

Use of Silence and Sound

Static, glitches, and faint background noises build the tension pretty well, and while subtle, it’s also a bit unnerving at times.

The Illusion of Danger

Even though we know it’s fiction, the meta-horror aspect is done well enough, without ever feeling cheap.

Bad Points

Almost Too Polished

While the movie avoids the typical found-footage chaos, it sometimes looks too clean, and a touch more visual messiness might have sold the “found” illusion better.

Pacing Issues

Some of the dialogue heavy scenes between Tim and Nicole do drag on a bit, repeating the same ideas about truth and lies.

Conspiracy Threads

The movie does cram in references to a few different conspiracies, which fine, but occasionally it’s also overwhelming, with too many ideas fighting for attention.

Minimal Scares

If you’re expecting lots of jump scares, you won’t find them here, as Project MKHEXE is more about the slow, creeping dread.

Not really a bad point for me, but worth mentioning.

Final Thoughts on Project MKHEXE

Project MKHEXE is quite an interesting experiment in storytelling, and it plays with different themes quite well.

It’s an intriguing watch, but it won’t be for everyone, but for me it was worth it.

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