In a Stranger's House

The movie is OK, a good flick for any fans of the found-footage genre. The movie, at times, was very creepy. I think a lot of the scariness comes from the setting, the fact that our protagonist is all alone in the middle of nowhere. All of the scenes where he walked around at night were tense.

The studio really seems to make-do with what they had, from a budget standpoint. They couldn't have expensive CGI or whatnot to scare people, so the film relies on minor stuff, like objects moving around, which really worked.

I've turned off worse.

It had its creep factor moments. The problem I had with the movie was the guy's reaction to things. It seems that his downplaying of what had previously happened and were currently happening took away from the potential frights. Sometimes the scariest thing about a moment is when the person you're with is scared, and that was really lacking in this.

He was an above adequate actor, I just know I would have some bigger reactions to what I was witnessing.

Could he also not have just turned on some lights? Did I miss something?

It's pretty fun of the mill. Found footage from a likeable Youtuber who goes missing. There's scary dolls, something in the attic, animals that see things. Blah blah. It isn't awful though, it's just been done so many times. The main actor is good. I suspect he did it all himself.

I find myself very unbiased in my reviews of movie, and as I am a fan of the found footage genre I thought I would give this a try. BIG MISTAKE !!! I could bore you with the ins and outs of this one, but as per the title, literally nothing happens. I made it through to 1 hour 14 minutes, and with very little time left, I just switched it off. I am usually the one to see things through, but, nah, not with this one. Watch it, make your own mind up, and if you get through to the end, you are a better person than me.

Apparently not. Guy house-sits for some random woman, and for some reason he documents the experience. Inevitably some weird stuff takes place, though the emphasis is on 'some'.

The biggest problem with this film is the extensive amount of filler. Other micro-budget found footage films like Leaving D.C make the most of every minute, either with events that gradually move the plot along, or exposition that provides the protagonist with a personality. With A Stranger's Home every scene feels dragged out, even the good one. Even that scene loses its impact when the main character laughs it off the next day rather than call the police and drive miles away.

I may well have missed the explanation for the dodgy plot, due to the dialogue being so hard to hear, but given how the story progresses it makes absolutely no sense to give him chance after chance to get scared and run off.

It's not all bad. I liked the actor, and he has a very nice living room. I enjoyed that one scene around the middle point of the film, even if it didn't seem to have any real relevance to anything, and for a micro-budget project it's a reasonable little yarn.