Not good, but what should you expect?

Rating: 1/10 (8 December 2009)

I watched the movie because a friend told me about the buzz it had generated. This is usually not a good sign. So I had no expectations at all. But that movie bored the s**t out of me. It's not scary, it's not funny, it's just plain ridiculous and boring. Nothing happens, the characters are utterly annoying, I'm not sure about the acting, the situations aren't very realistic (the characters never turn the lights on after the mysterious event, but the entity does, though not all of them). In a way, I'm being unfair. It's an amateur movie, and this is how it should be treated, I guess. But it's been very well marketed by smart people who've understood they could make a huge bang for the buck by creating some buzz around it. And it's worked. A totally cheap movie with a not so good scenario and not so good actors has earned its creators huge sums of money, all astute marketing. Thumbs up for that. Thumbs down for the rest.