The most frightening film of the decade!

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2009)

There has lately been a lot of hype around this film, and where a month ago I had never even heard of it, many people saying it was 'so scary' and that some people fainted really brought the hype higher. I tried not to expect something so scary, because no film has ever really physically shaken or scared me that much, but this came quite close. Similar to The Blair Witch Project, it starts off slow and slowly gets under our skins. It had some realistic characters and they did some realistic things, so that is a compliment that is rare in horror films these days. The direction is impressive, as is the camera-work, and very effective. The moments in the night are so suspenseful, and what makes the film truly scary is how some people have had things like this happened to them, and how everyone at one point really thinks about the things that go bump in the night and stuff like that. The film is simple, but very effective, and the experience of watching it was scarier than watching The Blair Witch Project, just because I saw this at a cinema and I saw Blair Witch in a TV screen. I saw it yesterday night, and when I got home, and was alone, I was very creeped out. Props to this film, easily the creepiest film of the last 20 years next to The Blair Witch, and one of the best.