Under average

Rating: 4/10 (25 November 2011)

There were many gossips about this movie the time I heard about it. People didn't want to sleep after watching it, many had no desire to watch the other two movies, simply because they were too scared. So I was curious about it.
Main idea of the film is same as "Blair witch project" or "Rec" - to make things look more realistic. So, it is a movie, that is intentionally using an average camera for home using in order to provide such effect to make everything happening in movie look even scarier. And there comes the first problem - it is not original in such idea. At least it managed to provide the realistic atmosphere of all of the events in the movie.
Then it is one of the rare movies, that has a really shallow plot, which I generally find disturbing, because every decent movie has a really good plot. And real time camera caption is not an excuse for it. In fact, you can always watch creepy videos throughout the internet without any plot, if you want to be scared.
Then at some point the classical "BOO" effect and protagonists screaming becomes really annoying. This was used in milliards of other horror movies and simply doesn't work over and over again.
The characters themselves aren't well-developed. This makes the plot even more shallow than it is.
Though it succeeded in creating tension from start of the movie, which solidly leads to final events.
But overall, I expected much more from this movie. Though if you like the classic "Boo" effects - than this movie is for you.
4/10