Diary of Evil

Yes it is low budget and some performances are low budget too but it's a half decent thriller with an interesting premise. It's not a graphic scream-a-minute horror and obviously wasn't quite what other reviewers were expecting. Okay movie in my book.

The acting and dialogue is so awful and unrealistic I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes. Everytime they opened their mouths I cringed so hard.

I ignore reviews where the reviewer didn't even watch the movie, turning it off just minutes into it. I have a feeling that these reviewers expect horrors to be big budget, hollywood extravaganza like The Exorcist, The Shinning, or even Nightmare on Elm Street. Those big budget horrors are far and few between. As a horror fan I watch a lot of bad movies. This isn't one of them. Sure it is low budget and sometimes the acting is a little cringe, but overall it is a very watchable movie. It has an interesting concept, that you can't grasp IF you haven't seen the whole movie. It is worth the time.

The idea and the execution aren't bad, but we're always aware this is shoestring production, and end up marveling at the way it's made on the cheap, rather than actually falling into the story. After a psychiatrist suddenly dies while researching a patients journal, the job passes to Dr Philip Tanner, who soon figures out the secrets of the diary. More of a thriller than any type of actual horror picture, we're presented with an interesting concept, and serviceable acting. A decent production, but we're always aware of limits of the filmmakers. Horror completists and genre obsessives will have to see, for some of the interesting ideas in the film. Most others should question how much time they'd like to invest. 4/10.

This isn't the best movie, but it wasn't so bad. They could have done more with it, but I think it was okay. The thing that gets me is all the reviews that hated it and saying that they fell asleep. It was 1 hour and 17 minutes and they could stay awake that is pretty hard to believe. It's not great, but it was interesting and I wish they had added more to it, they had time to spare.