Excellent no-frills scary movie

Rating: 8/10 (13 February 2010)

This is your basic no-frills scary movie. But oh my, how very effective those simple techniques can be. The last movie to scare me as much as this one did was "The Strangers," another film that proved high-tech special effects and exorbitant budgets are not necessary in the production of a genuinely scary film. The documentary style this film uses definitely creates a sense of credibility and realism. Comparisons to "The Blair Witch Project" are inevitable, and BWP probably paved the way for films like this and "Cloverfield." I simply see it as the development of a genre--and that's a good thing. If you like to have the s*** scared out of you, rent this one, turn off all the lights, and prepare to be spooked.