hyped garbage

Great Film overall

Good movie but grossly overrated

The acting in this movie is really good.

I should have read the reviews before wasting an hour and half that I will never ever get back. It's a small town with a string of missing children and unusual circumstances witnessed by it's residents yet the movie indicates that most town folk are clueless. The theme of the movie is promising; however, the supporting story lines lead the viewer to multiple dead ends and does everything but support the movie plot. The movie addresses the "who" and the "how" but completely ignores the "what" and "why." If I were in watching this in a theater, then I would have walked out midway and demanded my money back or movie credit.

The complaints of the negative reviewers on this page are warranted. The movie sets up a lot of good character arcs and plot lines and then just leaves them completely hung out to dry. It's really odd that no attempt is given to explain the origin of the creatures or the town's predicament. However, the movie still scared the crap out of me. I suffered from sleep paralysis for years, however, and anything that even somewhat accurately depicts the condition tends to get under my skin. I feel like the movie underachieved in regards to realizing a potentially terrific story, exploring the importance and difficulty of family and the role of being a father. Still, the first 4/5 of the movie gave me legitimate willies. The end annoyed me, but I don't want to say too much about that and spoil it. When all is said and done, there were definitely big problems with the movie, but I have to rate it high, personally, because I spent a huge portion of the film with fear-electricity running all over my skin. If you've ever suffered from sleep paralysis, this film might trigger some serious apprehension. It did for me.

Be Afraid is nothing special. It's about as generic as horror movies get. Cheesy dialogue, poorly shot jump cur filled "action" scenes, and unlikable/annoying characters galore. The "scares" in this movie are almost exclusively jump scares or monster briefly appearing in background/reflection. The scenes that do have the monsters in them are usually blurry and shaky, making the most s hard to make out. The music in the film was forgettable, nothing special there. Normally I would rate this kind of movie a 3/10, but this movie did get one thing right. Throughout the film there are some shots of the scenery. Most of these are actually really good looking. Especially the scenes in the woods, the rich colors make the scenery really stand out and give the film a really pretty setting. That aside the film was bland and forgettable. That is all.

I enjoyed this movie, with a larger budget it could have been seriously good. The concept and story are pretty solid, interesting and engaging. The characters and actors involved were all very good and believable. I loved the whole idea with the tunnel which reminded me of Absentia which is a superb indie horror. A family move into a new home and soon after begin seeing strange things. The young child sees a man in a hat in his bedroom and the dad starts having nightmares about creatures. The older son returns home from college and connects with one of the female locals who happens to be the sheriff's daughter. The younger lad is drawn to a tunnel near the home, it has a memorizing affect on him.There have been many unexplained disappearances in the town and the sheriffs estranged wife is the subject of ridicule for voicing concerns about strange beings at the corner of your eye.It all reaches a climax after an initiation prank goes terribly wrong and it appears the sheriff knows more than he's letting on.Much is sadly unexplained at the end of the movie but all in all I thought it was pretty good.