Phoenix Forgotten

Synopsis: Phoenix Forgotten tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. They disappeared that night, and were never seen again. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of their disappearance, unseen footage has finally been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition. For the first time ever, the truth will be revealed.
Director(s): Justin Barber
Production: Cinelou Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.2
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
PG-13
Year:
2017
87 min
$3,599,570
Website
128 Views


I've just been advised

by our group that we are deploying

six members of law enforcement

and two canine dogs to aid...

Another day of searching

in the desert for clues

in the case of three missing teens.

Multiple law enforcement agencies are here.

Well, there's still volunteers continuing

the search, the satellite images...

So anyone with any information at all...

...doubled since yesterday.

As more time goes on,

they're really pushing their resources

to make sure these teenagers are found.

You know, I read an article,

you wouldn't believe the living

you can make photographing food.

Hey, Dad, what's the secret

to making a great burger?

Well, the first thing you got to do

is you got to get your coals hot.

Super hot, so when you put it on there,

it seals in the juices.

Then you don't flip it but one time.

That's the secret.

# Happy birthday, dear Sophie #

# Happy birthday to you #

- Make a wish, sweetie. Make a good one.

- And many more.

Okay, keep going.

- Keep going, one more! You did it!

- Go, go, go!

Come on. Sit down.

Imagine that you were going

to talk to grown-up Sophie.

What would you say to yourself?

- I don't know.

- You don't know?

Can you give Sophie

some advice for the future?

Sophie, when you get older,

you must obey your husband.

- You must obey him.

- Gramps!

- What, to Soph?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

You want to do it right now?

Happy birthday, honey. I love you.

I love you, Sophie. You're the best.

Your brother is crazy, but I love him too.

And now he's going to talk to you,

so give me... give me the camera.

- No, no, no, I'm the director.

- No, honey, I want the camera now.

No, it's your turn.

Sit down next to your sister. Come on.

- Now you know how I feel.

- Okay.

All right. I want you to, uh, say

something very sweet to your sister.

A nice wish for her sixth year of life. Go.

This is how

I remember my brother. How I try to.

Sitting next to me

at my sixth birthday party.

Before anyone knew

our lives were about to change.

That this would be

the last time we were all together.

- Hey.

- Oh, hey. Hey.

- It's so good to see you.

- Good to see you.

- How was your flight?

- Uh, good. This is Jay.

Jay, this is my dad, Steve.

How are you, Steve? Nice to meet you.

What did you pack, Jay?

Are you going to be filming the whole time?

Yeah, that's, uh... that's the idea.

You're like Harrison Ford.

Okay, I'm over here in the scam lot.

That's what they do, they scam you.

They've got the public one

that's so far over,

it might as well be in another county.

You go there,

you're going to miss your flight.

And, uh...

they resell the flight and then...

you're sh*t out of luck is what you are.

So you've got your own little reality show?

It's not a reality show, dad.

- It's a documentary.

- Documentary, huh?

- Uh-huh.

- Okay.

What's your documentary about?

It's about Josh.

Josh?

Anyone with any information at all,

we're asking you

to please call a special tip line.

...searching in the desert for

clues in the case of three missing teens.

Search efforts have doubled since yesterday.

As more time goes on,

they're really pushing their resources

to make sure these teenagers are found.

We will continue to return here until we've

completely exhausted everything

that we think we need to do.

There are still volunteers

continuing the search,

uh, and satellite imaging is ongoing.

Arizona State Police

are now in their third week

searching for missing teenagers

Ashley Foster, Mark Abrams, and Josh Bishop.

Well... sold.

Yeah.

You don't want to come in?

I... No, I-I better not.

- Just, uh, say hi to mom for me.

- Okay.

- Okay?

- Yeah.

- I'll talk to you later.

- Okay. Bye.

Well, I like your bangs.

- You're so cute!

- Mom!

While you're here,

you've got to go through everything,

- or else I'm giving it to the yard sale.

- Okay.

- Okay?

- I'm fine, okay. I don't need my blankie.

Well, as you can see, um...

what's the point of redecorating?

While you're here, I was hoping

you could help me pick up this stuff.

I have a ton of boxes in the garage and

between the two of us it shouldn't take us...

Do you still have the tapes?

- This is it, huh?

- Yeah.

That's the one. That's... how it all started.

Oh, it's your turn.

Sit down next to your sister.

Come on. Now you know how I feel.

- Okay. Okay.

- I want you to, uh,

say something very sweet to your sister.

A nice wish for her sixth year of life. Go.

Okay. Well, Sophie,

I have one thing to say to you...

Wow. Look at this.

Whoa! Is that an airplane?

I don't know.

Oh! Josh! Careful!

It's bright.

Hold on.

I don't think it's an airplane.

- Hmm.

- Huh.

Oh, look at that! A fourth one!

They're in formation of some kind,

but they're not really moving.

- Whoa!

- Whoa!

Five, six, seven lights.

Have you guys ever seen

anything like this before?

- Hey!

- You see that.

You see that? What is that?

- Oh, my God.

- What is that?

That's definitely not a plane.

That's one object.

- Wow, I've never seen anything like it.

- Oh, my God!

- Honey, zoom in on it.

- I'm zooming, Mom.

Okay. Okay.

Whoa!

- Whoa!

- They're aliens or something.

- They're gone.

- That's weird.

What was that?

I don't know.

- Where did they go?

- They're gone.

Maybe they... they could have

gone behind the mountain maybe.

- No, there's no clouds!

- Yeah, we saw the same thing.

- That was interesting.

- That was a show, right?

- Yeah, right?

- Guys, you know what that was?

- Those were UFOs!

- Oh, come on.

Those were UFOs! That's what a UFO is!

You guys, I think that's our cue to clean up.

- We gotta... Right? Come on.

- Are you kidding me? Dad!

Yeah, it was probably, um...

I don't know, military.

Yeah, we've got to get the presents, Josh.

Josh, put the camera down

- and just help your mother clean up, okay?

- Soph...

what do you think that was?

I don't know!

Holy moly.

You okay, Soph?

You all right?

Yeah.

That was the Air Force, Dad!

Well, I hope it was our Air Force.

Grandpa.

That was amazing!

When these lights appeared over Phoenix,

people immediately thought:

UFOs. Outer space.

- We were standing about here?

- Right about here.

- Whoa!

- Whoa!

They went just over the valley

toward South Mountain

in like a...

what seemed to be a "V" formation,

- It was definitely interesting.

- Mm-hmm.

So far, the military

hasn't claimed any testing

in the area from nearby Luke Air Force Base,

which leaves many residents wondering

"What were those mysterious lights?"

It seemed like the Air Force didn't know

what it was, and if that's true,

then what was it, you know? I don't know.

And now I'll ask

Officer Stein and his colleagues

to escort the accused into the room so that

we may all look upon the guilty party.

Don't get him too close to me, please.

This just goes to show

that you guys are entirely too serious.

No one really took it that

seriously from what I remember.

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T.S. Nowlin

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