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With dialog like "It's A Family Camera"


This movie's embarrassingly bad. The script/dialog, direction and acting are substandard.

Pastor Poe(the Dad) was so obnoxious, I wanted to kill him myself. This character was written to use inappropriate behavior, talking about jumping his wife's bones, farting/fart jokes, indulging in alcohol and using extreme(for a pastor) profanity.

Reasons to hate found footage;

Even after things turn deadly serious, people continue lugging a camera around filming everything.

In 2007 who would have made their lives revolve around a movie camera?

Once the wife frees herself from the chair, she doesn't untie her husband and instead, he invents a reason(light on camera) for her to film while trying to retrieve the bat, because that's more important than untying him.

How did these idiotic parents overlook or under-react to what was extremely odd behavior by the kids, from the start? It was ridiculous! Acting anti-social and weird repeatedly throwing utensils, cups and plates of food on the floor, to protest dinner prayer. Killing pet fish, putting a frog in a vice, crucifying the pet cat, biting a school mate multiple times, etc,?

Hollywood loves dumb people that can get excited over this kind of irrational garbage. How nice it is to be a writer, when the viewer will let you get away with illogical, irrational, unreasonable, well just about anything, as long as it's a home movie.


Yea, Tho I Walk Thru The Valley Of The Shadow Of Political Correctness...🇺🇸

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Yeah, seeing a 5.3 on this movie, I thought that this movie would be good or at the very least OK. Because on IMDb, horror movies (and especially FF) always get a low rating even if it's actually good. But this was just...

A 2/10 for the effort I guess.

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The one that got me was the soup. The mom and dad are tied to the chairs, the kids set soup in front of them and then leave. The mom breaks free, DOESN'T help the father, and uses the Camara for light. O.K. could work. Then the chase happens and the Mom finds the father on the stairs. Apparently (out of it)? The smoke alarm goes wonky so she goes to the stove to find burning borscht or whatever, finds the pills an realizes they've been slipped a micky. Out she dashes into the woods. Then the plastic bags and paper sack hats come into play. WHEN DID THEY EAT THE SOUP? If the kids had tried to force feed them they would have spit it out figuring it was molten glass or some such. So they had to have sat down to get some healthy protein in for the child beatings to come. That one really pissed me off. Movie was... O.K? At first trying to guess what would happen, but when the freaks started their clowning it went to *beep*

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