Better watched at home

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2010)

I want to compare this movie to The Blair Witch Project - as everyone else has - but honestly, I think I only watched the first and last 5 minutes of Blair Witch. The rest of the time I had my eyes closed trying to quell the motion sickness headache that had developed. At least I had the sense to watch this handicam movie on the small screen instead.
This movie has been quite divisive - people either love it or hate it. I find myself more in the love-it camp, though I have to admit that it might because I was less bored with the many chatty scenes in which nothing happens since I was at home and multi-tasking some. And I quite enjoyed the scenes in which stuff did happen. It was really quite simply done - a video camera set up in the couple's bedroom to monitor unusual occurrences - but sometime simple works great. I found myself tensely watching, waiting, and when paranormal activity did happen - even when they weren't big scares - I wasn't disappointed, especially since they built up to a doozy of a finale.