matthewhemmings

The first ten seconds of this movie are brilliant and very clever. Not a type of introduction I've seen before.

Sadly, the rest of the movie doesn't live up to the introduction.

Generally, with horror you get about 45 minutes of setup and character development, then 45 minutes of screaming and dieing. That doesn't happen here. At one hour in I glanced at the time and wondered when the action was going to start. After that I was looking at the time every five minutes wishing it would hurry up and end.

The jump scares become more prevalent as the film goes on, but they were the only type of scare for me in the film. No tension, no building sense of dread; I note that the hairs on the back of my arms didn't stand up once (and I'm easily scared), and I mildly jumped three times during the film.

There's no real plot to speak of but there were a few ideas that, if fleshed out, could have become something.

Like other reviewers, I saw the rating saw it was a British found footage (yay, a break from Americana!) and gave it a whirl. Ah well, we all make mistakes.

I like indie's, found footage, horror and anything not from the Hollywood/American meat grinder. I'm a big horror fan and understand that low budgets, odd choices by the characters and sometimes questionable acting are just part of the package.

This is not a good film. This is not a good bad film.

There is essentially no plot. No structure or acts that I could discern.

You expect shaky camerawork on a found footage, but for a large portion of the movie's finale the camera isn't actually pointing at anything.

I wanted to give it 3/10 because I'm nice, as a piece of 'cinema' it deserves 1/10. 2/10 sits right in the middle.

Kudos to what's-his-name for managing to push this through to completion. The lack of a plot, structure or narrative clearly didn't hold him back.

M

Writing this because the other two reviews listed have spoilers, and personally I like to see a review when flicking through movies on here.

Our lead gets his first job in three years, and is tasked with liquidating a company. Not a fun job for any regular human being, but made worse for our guy by his previous mental issues.

I knew next to nothing about this film going in and that's how I like it.

It's a slow burner, and the empty office setting is used effectively. A few times the hairs on my arm rose, such was the tension created. The odd jump scare but definitely not a tactic overused here.

Found my copy on the excellent WIPFilms, for me the single greatest resource of unusual and rare cinema on the web today.

Seek it out if you're a fan of slower horrors or German cinema in general.

M