1st Summoning

That rattling you hear is Lee's giant earring hitting the camera. Ugh!!

If that guy wanted to be a real doc maker find another camera man. It must have been that long earring he was wearing. No, sorry just heard it while the camera was on him. Could have been better but it wasn't. I wish I hadn't wasted my time on this. The acting was good. That helped. If this was found footage, why were there impossible camera shots? Just pick one format please.

In order to break the rules, you must first understand them. The makers of this disasterpiece were clearly playing chicken with oblivion. If anything this turkey serves as a cogent reminder that most found footage films should just remain lost. Especially this one, which runs afoul often.

Why 3 stars then? Well, they managed to get the sigil of Lucifer right. Most occult films get that wrong. An upside down cross is just a St. Peter's cross. The lead actress actually had some acting chops and was awkwardly pretty in her own way. The preacher had a pernicious Jim Jones vibe which I rather enjoyed. The lead actor who plays the clueless, hapless filmmaker and looks like a pitiful cross between Rocky Dennis and Devon Sawa ought to stick with his day job though. A Samuel Beckett apothegm comes to mind: FAIL BETTER.

Remember when movies used to have at least a morsel of originality? No? It's been a while hasn't it.

So stop me if you've heard this one. We have a group of young people making a documentary about a scary place, they go to the scary place, scary things happen, they keep recording despite scary things happening and the credits roll.

That's basically what we have here as we see them making a documentary about a factory built on the site of satanic worship and yeah that pretty much covers it. Throw in a bit of drama within the group, a love triangle, shaky cam and the usual found footage tropes and you have yourself another carbon copy movie.

So what sets it apart from the rest? Literally nothing. The cover to me made promises it didn't deliver, we've seen this all before and done considerably better.

If you like this copy and paste found footage films you may enjoy it, otherwise avoid.

The Good:

Looks better than most found footage

The Bad:

Unlikable characters

Some real illogical stupidity

Ultimate goes nowhere

If you can get through this found footage film w a constant clickity crackle sound and heavy breathing you would probably rate this a two. Maybe not. Just awful. Bad actors have to say everything they're thinking and doing so us morons understand the story. Bad over-acting, bad directing, repeated story w no budget and you get a really boring movie. Move on folks. Nothing to see here...