Boring from the beginning

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2010)

In reading some of the reviews of this movie I am aghast that it scared so many people. I found myself laughing through most of this because of the absurd antics of this young couple. Especially the boyfriend character.
My main issue is this style of movie making that consists of all hand-held camera shots from consumer products that is supposed to convey a sense that we are watching actual real-time footage. Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield used the same style with similar disappointing results. As with Cloverfield, are you telling me that as strange events occur around you, you cannot put that camera down for a bit to figure out what is going on?
The boyfriend tells us, he is going to use this camera to catch on tape "proof that strange events are really happening". Hence, we have to sit through the couple eating, getting ready for bed, the boyfriend playing guitar alone, the couple arguing, and my two favorites - when the psychic visits we find the boyfriend at one end of the room filming the scene and not comforting his girlfriend during an obviously vulnerable moment for her, and when the boyfriend is editing his footage he is taping himself doing it?
The character development left me wondering why, if this woman is a student, we never see her studying until the end of the movie; what does the boyfriend do because he is always home during the day; doesn't the boyfriend have any friends; when the demon kills the boyfriend it has to carry him upstairs and throw him in the bedroom?
To sum up, I love scary movies. My personal favorite being The Haunting from 1963. I will never watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose again because that freaked me out for about four months. So when I find that movies like this one are scaring people it surely makes me wonder how? Too many plot holes and poorly developed characters and a filming style that is unrealistic.
I also want my money back!