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It was no jewel, I mean your typical terrible movie, wannabe spooky creepy stuff,but as everything was revealed, boy oh boy did it become sooo bad that it's good. I was blown away with the terrible but awesome effects. So if you're into the so bad it's good type, then the ending will not disappoint. That ending alone deserved the 3 stars

Just finished watching this film and I have to say... it's decent.

I started my rating at a 6/10 and would tick off or add on .5 points every time I saw something I disliked/liked. There were many details that this film failed with that kept it from being higher than a 7. Small details such as the film experts complaining about how expensive the equipment is, then laying it in the middle of the ground and leaving it shortly after. Small details such as a woman standing outside of a window for twenty straight minutes and no one thinking that something might be up.

To keep things short, this movie is a Comedy. Dark Comedy? Maybe. Horror? Definitely not. The only thing horror about this is the creepy glances that the natives give the visitors every once in a while, and even those aren't scary.

Should you watch this movie? Yes! I found a lot of the humor, well, humorous. Which is rare in most "comedies" nowadays. Even in the last quarter I found myself laughing (when a certain someone dies and Alex runs back into the house, that was absolutely brilliant). A lot of people are saying "nothing happens until the last twenty minutes" but they're wrong. A lot happens, it's just not what they wanted to happen.

Also, kudos to the actors for giving life to what would've have been a complete failure of a movie! Even Mia Faith brought character to a stereotypical Spoiled, Rich Blonde character.

They're Watching isn't bad, but isn't good either. It's a good time-waster. A movie about a small film crew doing a special in a small Romanian town full of superstitious and suspicious people, it starts off quite good with the only exception that one of the characters tries WAY too hard to be the stereotypical annoying smart-mouthed guy that everyone wants to see die. I mean, he's so unbelievably annoying and unrealistic that I almost had to shut it off.

But I endured, because the rest was pretty good. Things start picking up, the movie's paced fairly well, interesting stuff happens, there's an obvious and passable storyline, but then goes to cheese-town at the end. An over-abundance of cheap CGI effects, does not a good horror, make. Leave that to the Sharknados of the cinema world. Watching this movie was like watching an expensive firework fountain put on a good show for 30 seconds, then when things start to look like it's heading into its finale, it turns into a large snake (look up snake firework in case you're unfamiliar with the worst firework in existence).

CGI tends to be a crutch, and can easily ruin a good film if used incorrectly, with this movie being a perfect example. Even if it's only in the last ten minutes.

When I saw the poster for this horror movie at a local theater I felt I give it a shot.

I was already not on the films side when I saw that it was a found footage film. It has to be really good to win me over now. It wasn't.

As...Interesting as it was to watch a reality TV show crew film an episode about some artist who has fixed up a crappy house she brought, located outside of an Eastern European village, and they were an interesting set of horror Archetypes, I'll give them that much, the whole thing ate far too much time and did hardly nothing to built up a movie that's suppose to be in the horror genre.

It's not like the horror movie, The Which that creeps you out for an hour than hits you with the strange, it's more like from Dust till Dawn where it starts as one movie and becomes another. Although comparing this movie to From Dust Till Dawn is an insult to From Dust till Dawn.

Once the horror begins, the cheese is layered on far too think on this Ham sandwich. I saw this at a movie theater. I'm wondering how a film with the type of special effects I've seen done far better by kids on You Tube videos gets any sort of theatrical run. It's embarrassing for everyone involved.

But I have to give the movie some credit. After the smoke cleared and everything was all over, I could not help but to laugh out loud by how God awful this picture was. I sure hope that it was the filmmaker's intention to make the movie this campy, because all this "horror" film is worth is a good laugh.

I think I can put this in the so bad it's good category. I totally recommend you see it, cause in the end it was an enjoyable bad.

THEY'RE WATCHING starts out in a very light, fun way, with a crew from a TV home improvement show filming the sights of a small, Eastern European town. They also spend a great deal of time ridiculing the locals. Not surprisingly, as time goes on, things take a strange, more sinister turn.

This is another "found footage"-style horror film. So much footage is presented, that it plays more like a normal feature film. This is a bit of a weakness, because it takes the viewer out of the "reality" of the situation. Still, the tension builds nicely with spurts of humor throughout, though it does tend to drag in spots.

Have no fear, the totally-berserk finale is worth the wait...

Firstly its a shame they put the flash forward at the start - it looks so bad you may want to turn it off, but it shows you nothing in the grand scheme of things.

After that it plods along quite slowly for the most part, but it is watchable - the acting ranges from mediocre to terrible, but the odd joke, some satire and a bit of camaraderie help it along.

It isn't really a horror movie 75% of the time, there's no tense frames waiting for spooky sights or a bumps in the night that you'd expect in a standard found footage movie, but you do get a sense that eventually its only going in one particular direction.

All that changes in the final 5-10 minutes, and how you view the closing scenes will no doubt impact your overall opinion of the film - I suspect your rating will probably go up or down by 2 stars.

For me it went up, and I couldn't help but smile all through the climax of the movie.

So bad it's good content,enjoy the sheer terribleness that makes it so awesome. Your mind will be blown.

Great found footage movie that doesn't get bogged down in over- seriousness and has a sense of fun, while at the same time being really creepy. The characters are likable enough and the dialogue works, you can really tell that a lot of thought went into the filming and that the whole thing must have been a lot of fun.

As for the story itself, it evolves at a nice pace and plays with audience expectations a bit, especially towards the end. There is something creepy going on at least every few minutes but a lot of it is in the background so you also get to know the characters quite a lot as the film progresses.

Overall this is a smart and enjoyable horror with a decent amount of comedy and character work thrown in. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't hate found footage movies and also say that for the most part the filming is actually important to the story in this case.

It's spooky, it's funny. It's a fun little ride with a good twist!

What a shame. I shrugged when I saw the rating on here and figured I'd be in for a pretty terrible movie. However, up until the last 15 minutes or so I thought this was a really fun and entertaining movie. The acting is good, the script is decent and I was enjoying the movie quite a bit. Unfortunately at the end the filmmakers decide to pull out all the stops and throw in quite a lot of cgi/special effects that, due to the budget, are quite terrible. It turns a quite enjoyable movie into a bunch of schlock. . The actual ending itself isn't necessarily bad either, it's just the effects that will make you cringe. 7 rating for the whole film. 2 rating for the cgi.

None of this works

It isn't funny enough to be a comedy. It isn't scary enough to be horror. The movie never commits to it's idea, and we are left with a tepid, half-baked mess.

Now, I love a good fiasco. Few things are as entertaining as a well- intentioned, incompetent blunder with too much vision and no ability to edit. But you can't TRY to make a bad movie. You have to try to make a good movie and fail spectacularly in order for it to be funny. They're Watching is boring wannabe.

It tries to excuse the annoying characters, bad acting, horrible script and thin premise with "I meant to do that", and it doesn't cut it. It isn't entertaining enough to get away with it.

I had to write a review for this, if only to highlight that utterly ridiculous tagline from the movie poster.

As for the film itself, it's pretty standard fare for the most part, with a good portion of its runtime dedicated to making a mockery out of the backward locals in a way that would get everyone involved banned from the industry if it were set anywhere else.

Does it try to make the footage believable? Hardly. Does it give a good reason for the cameras to be running at all times? Not at all. On the other hand, it looks professionally made and acted, there's little running around in the dark, and it makes for an easy watch with its light tone and sizeable cast for the genre.

As many others pointed out, it does turn into a cartoon at the end, but whether that's a good or a bad thing is a matter of preference.

The first few minutes of this movie had me wondering if I should even bother but I quickly gained interest and didn't think it was too bad for most of it. However the last 10 or 15 minutes went a little too bonkers for my taste. The low budget effects did not help either. It wasn't a horrible movie but not one I personally find worth watching.

I'm more of a hater rater, a crusader warning others about horrible films, saving the unwary, you get the idea. So it takes something extra for me to write a positive review. This movie was great. I can see the issue other reviewers had, it's all about the labeling. It's not a traditional gore-fest or jump scare horror, but it does qualify as a horror (I'm talking about those famous last 10 minutes). It's also has Suspense, Mystery, Supernatural, and Thriller elements. With a helping of dark comedy thrown in. Everything we learn in the first part of the movie is all tied in at the end. If you actually pay a little bit of attention you'll catch all the threads and how they connect. I loved the characters, the actors were awesome. The plot was fully realized and made sense. Film quality was really good, it seamlessly transitioned between the hand cams and the traditional filming. I hate "shaky cam" and found footage movies, so for this not to bug me you know it's well done. I could see everything so it wasn't too dark. And sound quality was even throughout.

The final sequence was perfection! It's killing me not to give spoilers but you need to experience it unbiased. The use of the OTT cgi was totally intentional and it was what I didn't know I needed. I may have even cheered a bit.

Don't listen to the negative nellies, don't read any spoilers, just watch it. Keep an open mind and enjoy the ride.

I don't care if this is supposedly a comedy horror flick (as one review states), it's pure garbage. It begins like many found footage horror movies, but then it deadpans, and then suddenly decides not to take itself seriously. It just doesn't make any sense; none at all. There is zero entertainment value in this movie. It's an hour of awful acting (some of the worst I've ever seen), and then it snaps into some kind of wild horror art film. Definitely up there with the worst of those "I want my time back" films.

I've had to watch it twice. At first it seems very cheesy and idiotic. By the end it's BRILLIANT cheesy and idiotic! A real surprise, silly and bizarro. Meta-funny.

It don't want to give anything away, but i'll say you have to stick with it.

Yes, it is a scary movie and at first it seems VERY lame. By the end, it's BRILLIANT, very lame, a dark, funny comedy.

When I first put it on, after seeing a Netflx ad for it, I was immediately disappointed, so I started doing housework and barely paying attention. Then, I fell asleep and woke up halfway though. It was very trippy, so I restarted it and saw it actually paying attention. Very original and CLEVER,

Bad direction, with even worse acting and plot. The film had an average build-up, and an expected let down as it paced up. The final scene was so bad that it's hard to imagine someone would make a movie on this. How does it get 5.6 stars? Really?!