Taglines: Murder is an art.
A team of detectives attempt to piece together what happened at the scene of a brutal massacre using a number of recording devices found at the crime scene. The footage reveals a group of bus passengers who were forced to fight for their lives after they crash in the middle of the desert and a mysterious killer violently murders them one by one.
The film begins by showing the aftermath of the massacre in Kidwell, Nevada. Police are first seen going over the crime scene showing the aftermath of everything that had happened; The story then moves to a press conference with reporters asking questions about the massacre to the lead Detective Burquez who states that the police are looking into the matter. After the conference a disheveled Detective Reese asks to be put on the case to which Detective Burquez relents. They move to a situation room with a TV and multiple computers going over information from the case, here we learn there were four video cameras found at the crime scene and two survivors, They load up the first video camera and begin to watch.
We see a woman practicing lines for a play, then the video jumps to a man playing guitar and a surprise party for the woman celebrating getting a part in a play. This is Leann and her friend Rachel behind the camera. The video shows Leann and her boyfriend Tyler at Leann’s play where he proposes, she declines and he walks off stage angry. The video shows the girls making a video to Tyler to apologize for the propsal and to continue with a trip that was previously planned. The three are shown getting on to shuttle bus heading to Las Vegas driven by Ben, along the way we see people being picked up and we meet Vicki, a dancer and Steven, a 16 year old runaway.
While watching the video the detectives notice another person on the bus, a woman. When zooming in they notice she is carrying a military duffle bag full of money. Focusing in on the name on the bag the get the name Fleishman.
While on route to Las Vegas some of the passangers notice they’re not on any main roads but dirt roads. Rachel asks where they are going when the bus hits something and the bus flips. Outside they realize that what they hit was barbed wire. Ben mentions he saw a truck repair shop a few miles back and the group begins to walk back to the repair shop. They arrive at the shop where Ben looks around for a phone to call for help and is able to locate a damaged service phone he then heads back to the group.
Ben asks Rachel if her camera has a light, since the sun will be going down, and Vicki opens a gift box with a small hand held camera also with a light, Ben tells the women to gather everyone together. As Rachel goes looking for Leann in one of the buildings the lights flicker on and Steven stumbles out of a room covered in blood, chasing after him the others find Steven and Rachel. Leann believes she see someone and they all run in to one of the buildings.
The video pauses and we watch as the detectives contemplate Steven as the first victim. We also find out about the mystery woman on the bus, Katrina Fleishman. Katrina is the wife of a military man hospitalized with post traumatic stress disorder that withdrew her husbands savings worth $90,000 in cash and left town.
The detectives begin looking at camera number two from Ben’s perspective. He locates a fuse box and is able to get the electricity turned on, the camera then stops and changes. We see the camera adjust to another person in the group. A woman walking towards a bundle of debris looking for a flare gun, she is not able to reach it before being grabbed from behind, her face is smashed into the debris while she begins to scream and fight. The camera drops as we watch the woman have her arm burned off by a welding torch and set on fire.
Detective Reese sees a figures reflection in a pane of glass from the debris when the woman is grabbed, they use a computer to focus in on the reflection and a welding mask can be seen. Detective Burquez automatically makes a connection to Katrina Fleishman’s husband, a machinist for the military and immediately wants his picture out to the public. Detective Reese continues to watch the remaining video.
Evidence (2013)
Directed by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Stephen Moyer, Radha Mitchell, Torrey DeVitto, Nolan Gerard Funk, Dale Dickey, Svetlana Metkina. Alisha Seaton
Screenplay by: John Swetnam
Production Design by: Freddy Waff
Cinematography by: Lukas Ettlin
Film Editing by: Paul Covington
Costume Design by: Alexis Scott
Set Decoration by: Georgia Schwab
Music by: Atli Örvarsson
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 19, 2013
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