brandonlewissmu

The Blackwell series has been really good, for the most part. While I enjoyed the paranormal aspects of previous, I far prefer the new, grounded in "reality" approach. The shift away from the paranormal was needed. It had run its course. Having an actual killer is genuinely creepy, far more so than flipped tables, open cabinets, and ghosts banging on doors.

The only problem I have is that there's never a sense that Turner is in actual danger. He said so himself. The guy doesn't want to hurt him. It would add to the scares if the killer actually DID want to harm Turner. I'd like to see Turner get sick of being timid and tell this guy enough is enough. Bring it on.

I'm invested again. Hopefully 9 will come sooner than 8 did. Sitting on another year long "to be continued" would be a bummer.

Total embarrassment to Found Footage horror.

You get an hour of the most boring and monotonous story you can imagine followed by maybe the most nonsensical trash I've ever seen. There's no rhyme or reason. No coherent storyline. Why is this happening? Better yet, what is happening? I have no idea.

Loud noises. They love the loud noises.

Random flashes of..stuff.

No idea what is happening.

Lots of blood from an attack by..?? No idea.

Main character walks around being weird.

Still no idea what is happening.

Lots of lights, weird imagery, and fast shaky shots of..no idea.

More loud noises Main character gets even weirder.

The end.

I have no idea what happened and I don't even care. This was like an art-house attempt at being weird for the sake of being weird. The only thing that stands out about this movie is the audio. Without that, you might have the most pointless found footage film of all time. You probably still do.

PS. Bloody Disgusting and primarily Brad, really lose a ton of credibility for hyping this movie up. I didn't realize they had money in it. Also, check the reviews with the high scores and you'll see the users just joined and this is the only movie they've ever reviewed.

This movie is ugly..but its excellent. I'm not gonna bother talking about why I liked it. Plenty of other reviews sum it up just fine. I just want to address the animal torture scene. The director crossed that line that just doesn't need to be crossed. Nobody wants to see an animal tortured. Reading the reviews, I see a number of people turned the movie off. I get it. Luckily, watching this at home, rather than in a theater, you can fast forward through it. I knew it was coming so when a cat was introduced around 20 minutes in, I held down the fast forward button. I was able to look away. I stopped it at 27 minutes and the scene had passed. It ended up being a hell of a movie. One of the best "horror" films of the year, in my opinion. I don't know why the director felt the need to throw that scene in but it's such a good movie, it's worth the quick trouble of having to hit the fast forward button.