The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's Friday night. It's raining. It's one week and then we have Halloween. A perfect night for a horror movie. We don't check '388 Arletta Avenue' on IMDb, so I can see this film very objectively. The movie starts, as a true movie lover, I'm excited about what's going to follow. 10 minutes later, I start regretting. Because I realize the acting is so bad and there is no actual story. It's a dumb and stupid movie trying to make money out of the popular 'documentary style' movies. OK it's fine ,as a director you choose to use that technique, but that doesn't mean you don't need a DECENT STORY. Or that you don't need DECENT ACTORS. The movie really annoys, a lot of dead moments and the main actor ... is no actor at all. After a while you see this movie as a big joke. Big, big disappointment, don't ruin your evening by watching this... eh movie is not the right word. I would say 0/10. But IMDb doesn't have that option so it's 1/10.

I enjoyed the heck out of 388 Arletta Avenue. No bombs, no bullets, no intrigue; just a slice of life, and another, and another, all progressing toward another slice. What is happening, next? But Why? How can he? Why doesn't he? Since that didn't work, should he? The viewer is the creep by perspective but has the plagued man's identity. No thoughts of creep's purpose are revealed, the reactions of all others were reality-typical. It did have a few over-long moments, but whose life doesn't? I didn't miss the bombs, or the bullets, and the intrigue WAS there, upon reflection, but just from my own mind.The ending was mostly expected AFTER I saw the ending, but NOT before, which to me is even more of the attraction.If you want the easy-answers-ending tied in a happy bundle, go elsewhere; if you want a very possible real-life nightmare, watch it.

***MAY CONTAIN SOME KIND OF SPOILER*** Not many seemed to enjoy this movie, but i found it rather good. The whole movie was based on the unknown. Today it seems that everyone wants to have a finale.....a final fight. Sometimes, a movie is better without it. It basically seems as if the guy goes crazy....everyone around him thinks it too. At his work you can see his boss talking to someone and they keep looking over at him, and then he ups and leaves. They obviously think he is having some issues. In the end he wasn't crazy, but no one around him ever finds this out. There is no big finale, no simple answer for anyone to give....and this is what i loved about it.

This is a movie that rides on the trend of the whole found footage/hidden camera movie sub-genre. But is it doing anything new or interesting enough with it? Not really.It's of course hard to come up with something new and remaining fresh and interesting, since most had been done with the concept already and there is only so much you can do with it, since it's a quite restricting concept. It's restricted with its settings and movements and it is hard to keep things interesting for about 90 minutes, without starting to repeat yourself. This movie however does become a bit tiresome after a short while.It mostly becomes a tiresome movie since it maintains its 'mystery' for its entire running time. You don't know what is going on exactly, or what direction the movie will be heading at. This all sounds like some good and positive points about the movie but it's actually more sort of annoying, since basically everything can happen at the end, when the big 'reveal' comes. The movie doesn't drop any hints and stuff just happens, without you feeling involved with any of it. I kept thinking to myself; there better be a good resolution to all of this by the end, that explains everything as well, to let all of the events make sense. But no, in my opinion the movie takes a cheap way out and it absolutely wasn't satisfying enough and it's the sort of ending that leaves more questions than answers, especially when you start thinking back about the movie.It of course still could had been good and worked out all if the movie was a bit more tense. For a thriller it is surely lacking some good tension at times and doesn't ever gets you involved enough as a viewer, though the movie still tries to achieve this through its concept. The concept and camera-position are supposed to place you in the mind of the stalker. It's a voyeuristic movie but again, since you don't know any of the motivations or reasons for the events, you don't ever feel involved with it. It just doesn't do a good enough job at making and keeping things interesting and fresh enough to keep you interested in the story, its mystery and to what will happen with its characters.I did like Nick Stahl in his role, on a more positive note. He has to carry most of the movie entirely on his own and does a pretty good job with it. Too bad that the movie didn't really knew what to do with his character. It's not the worst thing you will ever see but it just isn't exactly a good or original enough movie to recommend either.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/