the audience applauded

Really Surprised!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This movie starts out with a familiar enough premise. Friends going on a road trip from the city to the Catskills, in this case to celebrate the birthday of one of the girls and guess what? Yep one of the guys feels the need to film everything along the way and you get the usual "Are you going to film everything"? type complaints which every one of these movies seems to have.Along the way they notice they're being followed by a van (for no apparent reason of course) and they all start to sort of freak out. They stop for food where yes again they see the van. Their destination happens to be this huge house (in a very remote area of course) which belongs to the birthday girls' aunt. When they get there the power is out. The aunt then shows up to turn it back on and at no time do they mention being followed since the girl claims her aunt is "very over protective". Anyway, that night they film themselves eating, drinking and being silly. The next day they go for a walk in the woods where they get lost...only to find their way back. This is where the whining of the girls (one in particular) starts to become insufferable.I won't bother with any other details, suffice to say the intruder(s) show up and bang at the door etc. They leave a video tape which shows that the group was being filmed the whole time.I realize in order to make these film one of the characters usually has to film everything going on. I just wish they gave a better reason why this has to happen. Especially later in the movie when they're running for their lives.Also, I don't like the whole you have to imagine what's going on while the characters are screaming like banshees. I want to see something "scary". Considering the budget apparently was over $300,000 you would think they would have been able to come up with something (how on earth this movie could have cost this much is beyond me). Finally, this movie has more high pitched screaming than any I can remember and man is it annoying. Near the end of the movie I found myself hoping they would get killed just to shut them up as I wished the movie would end. Brutal!

I'm not exaggerating here when I say that i genuinely believe that this is one of the worst films I have ever seen. For a start if you're going to make this sort of film then you could do with finding people that can actually act because those lot were just horrible. It's a psychological thing obviously with this type of film so crap actors means it's doomed to fail from the very beginning. It was just terrible on the whole though. For anybody fortunate enough to come on here before paying to watch this sorry excuse for a film let me save you some time and sum up the entire film for you: SPOILER ALERT!!! (I'm joking there by the way, there is literally nothing to spoil because nothing happens.) 5 people drive to a house, en route they get a bit lost and a menacing, slow moving van keeps popping up wherever they go. They get to house eventually, get lost (again) while on a walk, hear a branch break and run around in hysterics. They find the house again, joyous celebrations and drinking ensue. Somebody phones the house, their car disappears, the van drives really slowly past the house, a door slams shut on someone and a girl screams. THE END I honestly feel like writing to the person responsible for this and asking for my money back, it was that bad.

I have nothing against found footage flicks let that be clear but this one here just doesn't deliver any frights or scary moments. What the makers were trying to do is to make a found footage that has a bit of a Blair Witch Project (1999) look. But this time it just didn't work out.I had to wait around 50 minutes before the first weird thing really happens and even that part was rather stupid. You know the feeling, doors being slammed...Before that you have 5 friends meeting each other and going for a anniversary weekend at a house of one's aunt. But while driving out of New York some van is annoying them. They start filming the van but before they know it the van follows every move they make. But it isn't scary. Once at the house the van pops in again and they go to the woods, getting lost of course full of weird noises but again, nothing really happens. Once the night vision is switched on on the camera I thought, well now we are going to get it but just when it should happen, the movie is over...I thought. End credits and still over 10 minutes before the end. Oh yes, we do see that the van filmed them too, a thing we already knew from the VHS throughout the flick. And even that part I had something like, were is the evil thing? Well, the last minute we do hear some evil thing, already once heard in this flick. Fim over and I agree, an evil thing to watch. avoid it and that's a thing I don't say normally. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

I was a little disappointing about this movie not as scary as I wanted to be. when saw trailer which sound and looked really scary.However it did have some really good tense moment, which was really well done, some of screaming send few shiver down the spine but there after a while the screaming goes a bit over the top and get really annoying I did not expect this form this movie but acting was way better then I thought it be. people are really likable in this movie. I seen so many lost found footage movies this year , i have lost count, this it not a great movie but one of the better found footage movies I that i have seen this year. (One of few that i liked. 5 out of 10 Good movie