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So I went and saw this flick last night and my first thought was that it was unfortunate that I went after all the hype about it’s unexpected success. But besides that, my reaction was very similar to the one I had ten years ago when I saw The Blair Witch Project. I was creeped out, the characters got on my nerves but I wasn’t truly scared.
The central concept of the movie is a couple who decides to put a camera in their bedroom in order to have “evidence” of the weird stuff that seems to be happening in the house. The movie is constructed to make the audience think they are watching the footage the couple left behind.Unfortunately, this “reality horror” does not prevent the writer/director from abusing dumb horror movie cliches.
If you stop and think about it, there are gigantic holes in the logic of the plot and the characters seem to loose their intelligence as the movie progresses and the entity gets more hostile.
The obvious defense against this criticism is that the movie is design as an experience to fry your nerves not to stimulate your brain. The movie does pray on anybody who’s ever been afraid when something goes bump in the night.
Still, when somebody warns you not to buy a Ouija Board, and you recently found out that your girlfriend is being stalked by a demon,-YOU DON’T BUY THE DAMM OUIJA BOARD!!!
But the intelligence of the characters, nicely portrayed by Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, is sacrificed to get to the climax of the movie, which is the scariest scene in it. Too bad it only lasts about two minutes, a major no no for a movie that is being marketed as the scariest thing ever. The film works more as stunt than an actual scary horror movie.