I watched this by mistake. I saw the movie art and figured it was a comedy. It kinda is, but it soooooooo is not.
I love me some found footage horror films, and I also am fully aware that more of them suck than do not.
This one most certainly does not IMHO. Honestly, it's a crime that it's not on more people's Top 10 lists.
This film is basically Borat but if Borat was an insane, absolutely unhinged, bloodthirsty, cannibalistic serial killer.
This movie is excellent in terms of mixing both psychological scares with gore. There isn't too much gore, but there's enough of it coupled with the implications of what's going on (but smartly not shown) that make the wild things the main character does absolutely brutal. Homie does some absolutely insane things, stuff you would expect to see in a bottom of the horror movie iceberg offering. But the film doesn't actually show it, it just implies it. There's one scene with a bathroom mirror and a flickering light switch that expertly shows what I mean. It doesn't show everything, but just enough to make you go "WHAT THE HECK DID HE JUST DO"
Having typed all that, it could have cut a good 20 minutes of fat off in the first act. I get that we do need some character progression and exposition, and it works well-you are quickly endeared to this guy-but I felt that it was just 20 minutes or so too much.
But once things get rolling? JESUS F CHRIST
This movie is absolutely insane, and incredibly horrific in the third act.
I really enjoyed this. It really stuck with me after it ended. Had me thinking about how easily a string of really bad luck can change a person for the worse.
NGL, this is probably one of the most wild FF horror films I've seen in YEARS.
8/10.
