Shivered all over

Rating: 10/10 (27 October 2009)

Alright let me start up with this: I'm from Germany and I haven't heard anything of this movie before I actually watched the last 2 hours. Hence I have not been affected by the "hype" which is mentioned in most of the comments I read before I decided to write one myself. By pure accident I found this movie on a website on which you can find streams of current cinema movies and other stuff. Reading the description "After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence" didn't make me watch this movie. But the comments of other people did. For example: "Hammer Film!! Der Beste Horror Thriller Aller Zeiten. Damn!!" (translated: "Great movie! The best horror thriller of all time").
I really do not want to argue that the American people calling this movie "pure hype" or whatever just proved their own dullness yet another time... But dudes really... This movie is so well done and appears so freaking authentic that I can hardly take someone serious claiming that he was bored for the whole length of the movie.
In my opinion it was so incredibly well done how the tense grew and how the movie went straight forward to its climax by starting with scenes in which you simply were afraid of WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT. From scene to scene it then changed to getting afraid of WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN THAT BEDROOM. You know you can either say that you're totally not into this kind of stuff like ghosts, paranormal phenomena and so on OR you admit that you simply CAN'T TELL if there is something like demons, ghosts etc.
Speakin' for myself I was just sitting in front of my screen, shivering all over and after the movie ended I involuntarily started crying simply out of a feeling of relief that this tense was over now. Man, I'm used to every single major horror movie like the Saw movies, Halloween movies, Hostel, The Grudge, Quarantine, Cloverfield etc., but this movie totally f***ed me up. I'm really into this kind of movies like Quarantine, Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity. I enjoy this hand camera movies that give you the feeling of being a part of what's happening.
Like I said before... I don't know if it's just the fact that Americans are too dull to put themselves into the person that is filming everything with his hand camera or if they still think they're the greatest nation in the world and they don't have to be afraid of anything but their own dullness. I mean come on... You re-elected George W. Bush. GOOD JOB!
Best horror movie I have ever seen.