I hate this film with a passion!!! I was in the perfect mood to watch it with an open mind but it wasn't enough. This is not filmmaking. I could make a better film on my iPhone!!! The thing that kept me watching (stupidly) was in hope that something even slightly interesting might occur, but to my dissatisfaction it did not! Horrible film, horrible film-making and this is the first horror film i have ever watched that has made me this angry. DO NOT WATCH
shareTroll! In case you didn't notice, this message board is for fans of Evil Things. It was a beautiful, deep and well constructed film, which, in my opinion, should have won an Academy award. The faithful members on this board don't appreciate trolls coming on here and bashing the films we love.
Clearly you have poor taste in films if you didn't enjoy this classic movie!!!
Dominic? Is that you??
sharem-cat is right, even tho the century is young this will without doubt stand out as the best this hundred years has to offer.
(and btw, I don't think the "troll" at the beginning of his posts was addressing anyone, it was just a label. Like "Review, this is worse than Paranormal Activity, since no cleavage. But equal waste of time. Watch it at 2x speed at least."
troll, i forgot to mention - you clearly know nothing about film-making if you did not appreciate this amazing film!
shareThis is film making in it's worst form. I agree 100% with OP
shareI don't think not working on the movie and thus loving it constitutes "trolling".
shareI agree 110%! This movie made me so excited in the beginning...1Hr later...still going to the house. The only "scary" thing was a dumb van with a ghost inside it with a drivers license. I waited and waited and then nothing happens, you don't see the person/spirit and you just see shaking camera and screaming. I'm an indie filmmaker myself and I could say that with the cast they had and location spots, they couldve done a much better job
shareYeah, I'm an Indie filmmaker, too. I recently filmed my kids playing in the yard.
shareI accidentally saw this and I feel cheated. I'm actually sorry that this was ever made. that Dominic guy owes us.
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Films like this are ideal for having on while doing something else. If I have it on DVD, then I'll play it on the PC and split the screen, with Minecraft or something on the other side. If it's on the tv, I'll have the old pc running, or the tablet, browsing the web or playing something simple.
Half-watching this while distracted is ideal, and I recommend it. It's perfect for stuff like this, in which nothing much happens, or at least happens slowly...you can listen while you get on with something else, and when things are getting good, you can hand your attention over to it.
In that context, this was a great little film. About as predictable as lost-footage-stalker movies are, with a suitably idiotic bunch who arguably deserved their fate (it prevents them from reproducing, after all) and a semi-paranormal stalker, who manages to lurk unseen and always be in the right place at the right time.
Nothing new, nothing outstanding, but a competent enough product in its own right, as if the makers had very carefully produced it according to some paint-by-numbers rulebook of scripting and filmmaking. Their next stop - TV movies!
Having said that - if I'd just sat and **watched** this inane drivel...I'd be pissed.
I look forward to your iPhone movie with anticipation.
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OP is exaggerating. It's definitively not "worst movie ev'a" nor is it worst of it's kind\genre, but I'll have to agree with him somewhere, it wasn't good.
I actually enjoyed the characters and non-horror parts, but movie was just badly planned in second half when "scary" things start to happen (around tape scene and after that). It made little sense, felt rushed and tried to hard.
Why would you add annoying loop music in background in POV movie? It completely threw me off the movie. Why did camera kept switching from one POV to another?
Last shot of "evil" looking at monitors was traditional film. Why?
not to mention the usual problems with POV movies like, why in the hell this guy needs to record everything, why doesn't he drops the camera once things get started, and why in the hell does he have professional $30.000 camera? O.o
Sorry, I really wanted to enjoy it, but it's just not that good. If it wasn't for enjoyable characters I would probably turn it off.
If you find a method of getting that time back let me know, I'd like to apply for a return as well. Ruddy hell this was terrible 😡
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It wasn't that bad. There were parts where I was genuinely creeped out by the movie. But that said at the climax of the movie it seemed to lose that creepy edge that it had going on. Not sure exactly why, maybe it was too rushed at the end? Maybe they showed too much? Not sure. I'll give it another watch...maybe just to see how I feel on a second viewing.
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