They're Inside

This felt very much like a several films thrown into one with some strange results.

There is "The Strangers," "Funny Games," "Creep," "13 Cameras," and possibly more. These four films for sure. With that said, there is not a clear storyline from any of these other flicks. There are just a few sprinkles here and a few there but enough to see the similarities.

I didn't outright hate this but it leaves much to be desired. The kills were decent, storyline was "Blah" and it was not acted well enough to really become invested. The acting might be chalked up to some bad character building throughout the script though.

My final thoughts are that it is simply a forgettable film.

This movie was so boring that I started looking at the profiles of the 9 and 10-star reviewers. With maybe one or two exceptions, each of those reviewers had only ever reviewed one movie, ... this one. Obviously, friends, family and those involved with this movie, trying to boost the ratings of what is a terrible waste of time. To be fair, there was an 8 star review whose author had reviewed three whole movies, all of which were written by Schuyler Brumley. Hey Schuyler, any chance that you're horrorfan2019?

I don't have a lot of fun criticizing creative people for having put effort into a movie but, just because there are so many fake positive reviews of this film, just some of the things that bothered me:

• a tired, cliched premise, executed poorly: cabin in the woods; no cell phone reception; car won't start; nameless, faceless, psychopathic killers who have no motivation.

• a horribly paced move, which drags throughout, resulting in me surfing IMDB and writing this review.

• stupid characters, acting in irrational ways, making suicidal decisions.

• fricken' found footage, which is the laziest and most annoying form of movie-making ever invented. Just an excuse for people who have no idea how to properly use a camera. I hate you 'Blair Witch Project' for popularizing this horrible, evil genre.

The smash cuts to wildlife, which I can only assume were meant to be foreshadowing or metaphors of some type, were also annoying but at least not an exhausted trope.

Tack on an ending that may supposed to be a shocking plot twist but is, in fact, completely incomprehensible and you have maybe threes stars.

Not scary in the least bit and stacked to the rafters with all of the tired horror cliches you can imagine. The acting is clunky but it's the writing that does it all in; the plot opens a couple of interesting backstory items that, had they been properly fleshed-out, might have added some dramatic weight, but these ideas turn out to be unimportant distractions. The ending is bland and wholly unsatisfying. Do yourself a favor and find something else to watch.

Found Footage "The Strangers" without any of the cat and mouse. The home invaders are just not scary. They barely even toy with the cast... and all their dialogue is cringey.

There are a bunch of scenes of a predator cat (I think its cheetah) stalking its prey with classical music played over it interjected into the film. Ooooo so artsy... Why don't you just show us the actual antagonists stalking their prey. All we get is a cut phone line and a car that won't start. I've seen that a hundred times before in much better movies.

I think they were trying to make it more of a character drama, but even that side of things isn't compelling at all.

Oof... and that ending... What a cringe fest.

Actually now that I'm really thinking about it, the whole thing is pretty bad.

The acting is boring, this movie is boring. So much talking and no pay offs. I usually enjoy these cam style shows but wow this was next level bad. To be honest I lost attention interest around 20 min mark.