Stupid movie


So they set up a Paranormal Activity rip off ... then explain it away as the kid faking it ... then the camera catches a guy crouching in a corner, but it's a stationary cam, so how did it not catch him getting into the house ... and what a convenience that he came in on that day, months after her death, and looked right at the camera ... to look for the safe her mom knows about but doesn't open ... then a weird sex with the neighbors thing, including an idiotic plot point where a whole family leaves town - not immediately but months later - to avoid a consensual sex charge, and managed to elude the entire nation's police force ... then a cell phone that apparently has endless video storage that she happens to be filming with, straight ahead at eye level, when she encounters a ghost ... but she doesn't mention the ghost when she talks to the psychic - in fact she seems weirdly happy talking to the psychic ... then the family contacts the psychic but for plot reasons only he doesn't mention their dead daughter visiting him (this was such a dumb plot contrivance that they couldn't get past it fast enough, just waving their hands and dismissing it, but worse it added nothing to the story except the dumb video overlay between her and her mom's interview later) ... then the video that like nine people, including numerous experts, supposedly pored over looking for her ghosts and in which ghosts were found but later found out to be fake happens to contain a SECOND ghost ooh spooky!

Yawn fest. Stupid plot 'twists', saw the ending coming a mile away. Decent cinematography and good music though.

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agreed, kind of a let down

"Life didn't pass me by....IT SAT ON MY HEAD!!!!! - Al Bundy

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The film was made before paranormal activity...hard to see how it was a rip off.

The crouching neighbour had been breaking in from right after alice's death, perhaps explaining the noises Mathew heard before setting up the cameras.

June didn't discover alice's safe until after the neighbours left.

There wasn't a police manhunt for the neighbours as the police explained that they wouldn't be likely to get a conviction....just they moved away and dropped off the radar.

Ray explains that client confidentilly is a presumption his clients enjoy, like any other professional and medical practioner.

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*Twist ending*

After we see the neighbor break in, June discovers the Toohey tape and finds out that Alice is the leader of an underground satanist cult. . . I was hoping for the evil cult twist s this double-life that they kept advertising. WTF umm what "double-life" was Alice living? cheating on your boyfriend isn't what I'd consider a double-life or having sex with your neighbor in secret. I look at porn in secret yay I have a double-life!

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