It Watches

This could have been a really good film if they had employed qualified actors. Low budget or not there no excuse for this level of crapness. But the story was sound and that saddens me more that it could have been great.

The cinematographic choices in this movie are odd. It is shot in a found footage style, but it feels like a film student tooling around with a camera. The film starts off with the camera outside of a car, pointed at the characters but you can't see them because of the sun glaring of the windshield. Weird.

Andre is tasked with house sitting a stranger's house and is told to document it with his hand-held camera to see if anything comes back to him because he has amnesia. This house is said to be creepy by the character and his friend but it just seems like any single dude's house complete with black leather couch and black entertainment set. It has mannequins covered in drop cloth and masks. Sort of unsettling, sure.

What ensues is a drag of the audience's patience until a weird neighbor shows up. This is the only time the whole movie anything exciting happens, the rest is a jumble of nonsense. There's a twist but it isn't a clever I didn't see that coming sort of twist. It almost seems like the ending got changed last minute and they didn't want to reshoot scenes to make things make sense.

There's a lot of drugs and drinking in this film, not a big deal to me but it would've been interesting to lean into how being intoxicated altered Andre's perception of things happening to him. He seems pretty sober as things are going on, and high for a short time. We could've seen him watching things on the camera and freaking out while high.

It Watches was a pleasant surprise. Although a bit of a slow burn start, it kept me guessing through out the entire film and had a full filling ending. The director (Dave Parker) succeeded in making something new and interesting. The lead actor (Ivan Djurovic) carried the movie well, looking forward to seeing him in more. All and all was worth a watch.

It seemed like a good movie initially until it shows the plot twist which really lost me as there's nothing that seemed to lead up to the how/why of it. Guy loses his memory in accident, house sits in a creepy house alone, date comes over & appears to disappear bc neighbor isn't who/what he claims but then everything just gets too weird to follow.

The movie left me very confused as to what exactly I had watched. It appeared to be a horror/ suspense genre but left me thinking it was a psychological drama instead...It left me with alot of questions as to what exactly happened & who did what..still not sure.

Even though it was low budget, I really enjoyed it! Shows how terrifying and frightening the dark side of mankind can be