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I found this movie interesting only because of items that kept appearing and disappearing. The entire movie took place on a front porch, and the main item was a sandwich. The sandwich first appeared as two halves on a plate next to a bottle of water. In a following scent it was gone. They shortly after that it appeared again only half was missing. Then it disappeared again only to reappear, this time again as a complete sandwich. There was a similar routine with a bottle of bleach. One scene the bottle was visible. The next scene it was gone, then it would mysteriously reappear again. The main point of the movie wasn't that interesting. In fact, it was stupid. So I had assumed the twist, or the surprise was the reappearing items, in some way or another. Nope. The movie ended and that was that.

Super low budget, bad acting, not scary (I think I jumped once!), odd story... I liked the idea though!

I put this on not expecting much, but I really did not think I'd laugh so much. Unfortunately this was not meant to be intentionally funny as it was not tagged in the comedy genre.

Trying to take a no budget indie film in a serious genre like horror or thriller is not easy to do and this film is no exception. I could not tell if there was a script or the actors were meant to improvise but the performances and dialogue were laugh out loud hilarious.

I think this film would have benefitted with better casting and properly recorded dialogue using lavs and even a bit of ADR. Less realism is more, cuz we can tell an actual Ring camera was not used.

What I liked the most here was the concept and minimal runtime. It's wonderful to see an indie half the length of typical no budgets that wear out their welcome long before it concludes.

This movie has taken 53 minutes of my life that I will never get back. Im traumatized, not from how scary this movie was, but from the questionable acting. While not scary, this movie did make laugh with how terrible it was. My poor grandma went into cardiac arrest from the boredom this movie inflicted onto her, my poor innocent granny is now bed bound, the only word that she can barely mumble is "unknown". I sit at her bedside everyday, wishing that I had listened to the previous reviews, warning me to go back a choose a different movie before it's too late. Sadly, it's too late for me and my poor granny, but it's not too late for you; please I urge you to turn back now before you end up like my granny, warn others of the utter cringe this movie will inflict on their poor souls.

The major thing I had against this movie is the number of continuity missteps. The water bottle disappearing then reappearing, the sandwich disappearing and reappearing, the bottle of bleach disappearing and reappearing. I dont know if these are a sloppy job of production and editing crew or if there is something that the director was trying to add some more mystery, a la Kubrik in The Shining, but he is no Kubrik and he does not have the credits to his name to think that he is the skill of Kubrik. The other thing is the whole "found footage" genre. It is so overplayed. Any kid with a cheap camera can make some footage and call it a movie. "Found footage" was cool in the 2000's but in the 2020's it has over played.

On a better note, I think the two stars, Jason Scarborough and Brittany Dunk, were well acted and their performance should not be counted against the shoddy production job. Given a competent production crew it would have added a few more stars.