Disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (13 October 2011)

This will contain spoilers... Probably about how utterly AVERAGE this movie is.
I spent probably a good 3 or 4 years hearing about this movie from many people. People told me it was "terrifying!", they "had to sleep with the light on!", they "keep thinking about it!" I had hopes that it would be an indie, blue tinted combination of The Blair Witch Project and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Both movies genuinely shocked and frightened me on the first viewing, and contained imagery and ideas that have stuck in my subconscious till this day. I was wrong.
The film started slowly and I stuck with it. There were some interesting ideas that they could have worked with in this film. In particular, I thought that they could have addressed modern day consumerism through the male lead, Micah, who has just purchased a very large black (ooeer!) camera. His girlfriends first comment upon seeing it? "What happened to the little hand held ones?" Hehehe. More of that subtle humour would have carried this film a little further into the realm of unintentional giggles, and to be honest? I LIKE that in a movie.
Although I found the two leads believable enough in the roles I couldn't feel myself engaging with them enough to truly care about them and I really can't find anything much to say about them... At least let me dislike them! When a filmmaker chooses to do the 'found footage' schtick it becomes almost impossible to make the movies cinematography attractive, and this film suffers from it. Watching it only 4 years later it already feels a little bit dated, and just doesn't hold enough interest of the era to make this interesting.
All in all? A disappointment.