Ok I've just watched this and honestly, I would have given it an average 5 stars.
It's not an awful film by any means, it's a low budget knock off of the Blair witch Project but with a serial killer instead of a witch.
Some of the locations are and camera work is pretty cool but it has all the same problems nearly all of the BW knock offs suffer from.
Slow plodding pace, an hour of people talking, walking through woods and old houses, more talking, bickering and walking around and little to nothing happens until the last 15 minutes.
The death scenes in this are all off camera bar one and there's almost no gore to speak of. It's not scary, it's not unsettling, it's so tame and by the numbers.
Sure I have seen a lot worse but that is not a glowing endorsement.
The reason I have given this 1 star is that I am sick of seeing these low budget movies being given glowing 10 star reviews the day they come out, from accounts set up that very day that have literally done nothing else. one review, one interaction and all on this film claiming it's the best most scary thing ever produced, usually over praising actors in the film or the director. It's so blatantly obvious they're fake and planted reviews from members of the production team to boost interest. It's insulting and a way of trying to cheat your film to success.
Until IMDB comes up with a system that only allows reviews from people with a reputation on here, you know, people who have been members for a while and regularly post here, rate and review films and are honest in thier opinions. This will just keep on happening, it's too open to abuse at the moment.
My honest opinion of this film, if you enjoy cheap found footage films where people spend an awfully long time walking through creepy looking forests and old abandoned houses, then you might enjoy this. But for me, there's not enough happened in it to justify its run time, the characters are stupid and say and do some of the most ridiculous things, thier interactions with things are absolutely bananas. They scream in shock when an old mattress is turned over with a big stain on it and yet when they find a dead body hidden under the stairs it's almost like "oh look at that, that's strange" and then they just move on.
There's a lot better found footage horrors out there but there's also a lot worse.
But don't base whether or not you want to watch this solely on the reviews turning up on the net. Most of them are fake, most of them are written by people associated with the film and that alone should tell you all you need to know about what they, themselves think of thier own films quality.
