Found Footage 3D

I saw the 2D version but any film must be told by the story, not the 3D gimmick.

The cast is fine, the acting is fine. The problem is there is really no script. While everyone talks about making a GREAT FF film, they have no original idea. The script/story takes place in a cabin. Um, what? They think filming in 3D will make all the difference...but there is ZERO effort on their part to use the silly 3D gimmicks. You never hear or see them trying to make 3D scenes; throwing or poking stuff at the camera. It's so odd because that would have been fun/funny to see.

Instead, there is some bad, splotchy CGI of a black ink stain wandering around. There is no backstory every given about this particular haunted cabin other than a guy killed his wife and left the body in the lake...or was that in the script? Regardless, it's never mentioned again, no watery ghost, etc.

So we're left with them shooting scenes from a movie that has no plot we're able to follow, accidents happen that...are not explained or talked about much. Why does a shovel fall on a cast member? Why does one women get bloody scratch marks on her arm? Why do they go out drinking at a bar and when they return home and find some things "wrong" in the cabin? These are ll tropes used in FF films--and basic horror films--so it's clear they didn't even TRY to shake things up. The climax also is just what we expect, running in the woods in the dark, a final lunge at the camera by the monster.

Because the acting is fine, I was engaged the first 40 mins but then sensed that was it; the premise was set up but they weren't going to do anything but make the same old same old FF film. Which is fine--I like them, but if you're going to boast about making some new and different, that deliver. Or at least try to. Beginning with the title.

Read the reviews here and thought I would watch to see why all the reviews were all over the place on this film. First off, the first 30 min are soooo slow. After the second appearance of the entity I called it. Way too cheesy for this to be interesting for me. If they would have had nothing there it would have been watchable. Effects are bad. Really bad. Acting was pretty bad too for most of the cast.

The 3D gimmick is the only selling point for this movie, and it isn't even good. The acting is better than you'd expect for a low-budget horror movie--that's the only reason I gave it a 3. The problem is the SFX are terrible and the bigger issue is that the main characters are completely unlikable. I'm all for a decent found footage film so long as i care about what's happening. I didn't give a hoot about the three main characters. The other three I found more likable, but there wasn't enough there to make them more interesting.

There's also no build-up or suspense, just 90 minutes of people yelling at each other and making bad decisions until the last 20 minutes.

SKIP.

The movie was pretty entertaining at first, with many ironic moments about found footage movies. Then the ending really dragged, and it was so tedious just to finish it.

Found footage movies have one rule but holy sh** is it boring and conformist to not see it broken.

This could've been to found footage what cabin in the woods was to horror.

Being a subversion of the genre might be most poignant when the movie itself adheres to all the rules of the genre itself and thus manages to be a great member of the genre in addition to being a good parody.

However this isnt the case when the rules themselves are strenuously dumb to uphold. Like a found footage cameraman being blind to the found footage genre.

And besides even Cabin in the Woods broke some horror rules to surprise us.

This would have been a much better movie with a "twist" ending of there not being a twist. The final 8 minutes robbed at least two stars from this movie imo.