He's Watching

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.

While this movie is by no means BAD, simply low budget, it isn't meant to be a found footage movie. It just had to be one due to not having the money needed to do what needed to be done.

I'm a found footage fan so this didn't work for me but good effort. Good acting (for children), original ideas and a few genuine scares but it just tries to do and be too much. The found footage aspect just can't accomplish everything they wanted to do here.

The camera work is good, the house is creepy and lit well and there are no real "mistakes" to speak of. Just artsy, odd choices and a lack of means to pull everything off. Also the ending is going to be hard to understand for some.

It's really a 3 but I'll add an extra star for trying so hard.

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.

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.

If Blair Witch and David Lynch had a baby....sort of. Lots of great filmmaking techniques here. The story is a bit confusing, and there are unanswered questions, but worth watching for the style alone.