ridiculous rating

An absolute waste of money

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This movie had the potential to be great. However the complete rip off of the Grave Encounters movie's was more than apparent. The acting was awful, you could not identify with the characters at all, one minute they were terrified, the next happy then terrified again. The script was hopelessly written and you just couldn't engage with the characters 'fear' due to unconvincing dialogue. I'm well aware the camera work was intended to be from the 'camcorder' perspective, however it was TOO jittery. The scares were boring, the story was unoriginal and the ending was a relief when it came. The only GOOD thing about this movie was where it was filmed, it actually looked really good and creepy. But poor cast and crew basically ruined it. Don't bother with this one. Ever. Unless you're a location scout.

I was inspired to write this review because frankly, the bad ones that are attacking the acting , mainly, are just fiction. The acting is good, and in fact better than most Indy films. This is not a bad movie. It was a treat to see Oliver Stones cameo. This was a good movie, not great, but not bad. The problems with this film is just that it has been done so many times before. The genre and subject matter Is getting boring. The acting is great, the scares are great, very realistic which is refreshing. I enjoyed it. It did make me afraid to go downstairs to use the restroom alone. I am a bit of a scary cat though . Mostly I wanted to applaud the acting, it quite upset me when I saw all the "bad acting" reviews. Ever watch " Continuem"? That's bad acting that affected a show. The acting here is top notch for the material. I was shocked people blamed the acting which was one of the good things about this film. I'm not sure people actually know what " acting" is.

Most of the other reviews already hit this one pretty well... quite bad acting, bad effects and no plot (both par for the course for most found footage movies), and really quite dull. It tries to make it more interesting with artsy splices of chaotic montage which are supposed to reflect the decay of the psyches of the characters (I suppose) but these invasive montages are more just annoying noise than mood altering (I suppose being annoyed IS a mood though). To give the director some credit, at least they tried. They do capture a claustrophobic feel quite well, and the flashing lights and darkness, generic though they may be and even bothersome, are not completely without value in furthering this mood. All that said I obviously feel that the movie fails, and even worse, it tries too hard to be a couple of different genres at once and thus fails at several things simultaneously. It is nothing more than a ghost tale, but has an awkwardly overlapping demonic theme that is very strained and culminates in a kind of high level of stupidity, and also seems to be suggesting an other dimension quality that just does not carry itself out. The set is very good though, and someone with a budget and a lot of talent could really do something with it. Unfortunately it is wasted on this movie. Not THE worst movie I have ever watched, but I am content to see it at a 2 and no higher.

I am afraid to say, that although I watched the film this evening, my brain found it hard to comprehend the dullness that was thrust upon it, and so images of the film are already leaking away as I type this so sorry for lack of info. I am a huge fan of found footage films, which is the reason I got this. I was hoping for at least Grave Encounters level of film but instead got college student attempt at horror film... My main problems with this film is that nothing much happens, they keep shouting at each other over naff all, and you can't see a bloody thing a lot of the time! I paid 8 quid to look at darkness while people shout. I could get the same effect by hiding in an alley at night and occasionally jumping out at people while screaming boo, for free! I am being rather nice with a 2, but if I gave it a 1 I would feel even more depressed about paying the amount I did for it...