He's Watching

This movie had genuinely scary parts but goes a little off the rails in the second half. Still worth watching IMO. Yes it goes into student art film for a bit however I genuinely liked most of it.

This is easily one of the worst horror experiences I have ever had in my entire life. This is so genuinely awful and so genuinely disappointing that if the reviews on this website went into the negatives. I would give this the lowest amount of starts humanly possible. It is a unbelievably slow hour and a half of suffering. I would rather take a beating than watch this movie again. The characters are so annoying throughout the entire film which made me really not care about them. It legitimately killed me from boredom several times throughout because of the lack of things that are interesting actually happening. I will give this movie one thing. You can finally applaud once the credits role. Because you will officially be out of your suffering.

I'm rating this a 4 purely because it had some decently creepy stuff. I did not understand what was happening for most of the movie. It felt like someone was bored during the pandemic, gathered a bunch of people (who know maybe very basics in film) and then started filming and created a semi plot after the footage was filmed. Some of it made sense and then anytime I thought I figured it out, I was back to being confused. If it weren't for the fluff that filled the first half of the movie, it would have had a lot of potential to be a great movie. Just needed some help. It lacked direction and had some major plot holes.

I would really very much like to speak to the filmmaker. I'm just very curious as to what his interpretation of his own film is. Because from opening credits to closing credits we thought we knew what he was trying to say. But along the way got convoluted, and lost.

I admire anyone who has the temerity to complete an artistic endeavor. But there was too many paranormal tropes used along the way that really made things hazy. It felt like found footage, but there was a lot of omniscient camera work. There was demons and a pandemic. It tried too hard I guess.

This film was not so bad that it was worth watching. But it was definitely not good enough to have watched the whole thing. But we did watch the whole thing, and are still very confused. I don't know if it's an experience with writing, or a budgetary thing But "He's watching" and I wished I hadn't.

There are some clear signs that a movie is going to be garbage if you pay attention to some subtle (and not so subtle) signs, and this one had them in spades. From the first 10 minutes, it's easy to realize that it was made of in "found-footage" style because they didn't have the budget to make a "real" movie. Not a deal breaker, but it gets worse. The movie switched from FF, to third person, to something like fourth-person (an "invisible" being recording everyone at the same time?) and I just didn't understand the underlying pathology behind this kind of filmmaking. If you wanted to make a movie and you could only afford an iPhone and your own family members as actors, why not just go full steam ahead? Why try to interject horrible segments of art-house, mixed in with misguided attempts at making some of the film appear like it isn't even FF? It's just a mess from the ground up, and I didn't get it, I didn't care for it, and after 40 minutes I just decided to stop wasting my time and turned it off. Honestly, I should have done it at the 20 minute mark but I wanted to see just how bad it was going to get. Glutton for punishment and all that.

I should have known this was going to be trash when I saw the political "Kick the GOP" bumper sticker on the youngest sons bedroom door. Then you see the feminist literature all over the house and it cements this very fact. I'm going to be paying even closer attention to these little details from now on, just so that I can identify these garbage productions and save some time and energy by not giving them any of mine.

The movie gets 3 stars because the two child actors weren't terrible. That's it.

Ignore this movie. It's not worth anyone's time or patience. It's the type of movie that will be forgotten and never be spoken of again, as it shouldn't be.