The House and the White String

Especially as you made me sit through 20 minutes of bouncy footage of grass.

Don't waste your time with this lame film.

I'm an avid fan of found footage horrors, but this was made in less than a day.

I watch a lot of horrors and feel disappointed most of the time. However, this film put me on edge from the start. I believed I was in the house, alone and terrified. The only issue I had was that it wasn't a full feature film as I didn't want it to end.

It's not the worst found footage film I have ever seen, but overall I didn't like it. It has some nice creepy touches, but I think it wastes a lot of time on nothing when that could have been used to get more of a creepy vibe, have some other small weird things going on.

Especially at the beginning of the film when it showing a whole bunch of the properties, and some green field. It has a lot of found footage shaky camera happening too. Even on the none scary moments.

I did like how the guy did speak and explained a lot, because that did make it a little bit more engaging. I also liked that it had a couple of rewind moments to here's some creepy things that I missed before. But so much shaky cam!!

The background story was intriguing, but I did think they juster wasted too much time to enjoy it. Also it just kind of ends. Which was disappointing.

This middle length film opens horribly. It's just so dumb from the In Medias Res to the awful newspaper cuttings complete with jump cuts to the same newspaper but closer.

But after the first 2 minutes, we actually find a reasonable enough movie is beginning. I think that those who made this watched a lot of online videos, not just the ones that are supposed to be scary/paranormal but the just studied semi-amateur footage that people make of themselves.

I actually found the opening scene when he's walking around the property very soothing and relaxing, which is often how I want my horror. This may not be a long movie but at points it does take its sweet time which admirable in these kinds of movies.

The main character doesn't have much personality and the little he shows is not terribly sympathetic but it's not really about him, just what's happening to him anyway, I guess.

There are tons of wrong notes such as a character saying "creepy" out loud and at another point...well, they try a bit too hard to resemble real life paranormal documentaries.

The story doesn't really go anywhere but I must give credit where credit is due and say that this movie got me on edge. It captured a feeling of credibility (in fits and starts and at times I was feeling anxious like I usually only do watching horror game trailers.

There isn't much to work with in terms of pasting together a lore and in many ways that is admirable. The lack of hard information and the long drawn out pacing is something that when done well, is fabulous.

On the other hand though, I think the ending would have had more impact if there had been some more investment in the symbolism and the back story. Just a touch.

Decent short found footage with a very similar concept to Bad Ben, but with someone with at least some acting ability. There's nothing new to see here, but there are couple of well timed jolts. Not the worst way to kill 45 minutes.