Shot in a mere five days just outside of Santa Clarita, California, with almost no script (apparently the dialogue was entirely ad-libbed by the cast), 2012’s Area 407 (released in certain international markets under the title of Tape 407 for whatever reason) sounded like something of a departure from the usual “found footage” nonsense when I read its brief description on Hulu’s “mystery and suspense” list, so I decided to give it a go — and that was my first mistake. The second, and perhaps most unforgivable one, was sticking with it until the end.

Here’s our set-up : sisters Trish (played by Abigail Schrader) and Jessie (Samantha Lester) are on a New Year’s Eve flight from New York to Los Angeles — recording their whole “experience” as they go, of course — when their plane starts losing altitude and, eventually, crashes. They survive, as do a small handful of…