Paranormal sans real horrific, scary activity equals a hand held mess

Rating: 1/10 (10 November 2009)

Such great expectations, from all the hype, going into this one. Both myself and my wife gave this one two thumbs down. Okay, with a 15K budget the films creators did what what low budget horror flicks have been doing forever....relying for 95% of their films on little more than low, medium and loud off screen noises...reeeelllll scaryyyyyy. Move an object here or there....more terrific to the core horror. NOT. Add to this the all to familiar dizzying hand held camcorder and lack of any sub-plots or other serious cast members. Then, to cap it off they toss out a clear as a bell spoiler that let us know well in advance exactly how the film would end. So much for the surprise finale scene that was NOT.
In one scene the boyfriend Micah spends a minute or longer checking out the hallway. Who was holding the camera? Since girl friend Katie yaks her hatred of the camera in almost every scene it certainly was not her. Bit of continuity problem there. In fact, I should add that Katie spends about half the film kvetching screaming at Micoh to turn off the damned camera.
We saw this 2 for 1 so we fared better than most. But really the comparison of this film to horror classics is shameful.
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