I'm not a horror fan

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2020)

I like good movies and sometimes those happen to be horror. But I'm not a fanboy for the genre or anything that restricts itself to the rules of the genre.
This movie was really good. A few jump scares but not overdone like a lot of scary movies. The fear comes from the story and not the anticipation of the jump.
I saw this preview years ago and thought that it had a good premise. But given that it's scary and produced by summit and Blum that didn't bode well. Ethan Hawk helped to legitimize it though. He's of course a really good actor but I feel like he can be talked into doing anything so he's done some crap. But I like that he's not above anything.
I was glad that the movie delivered on the good idea and made a good movie out of it. I normally don't like it when a good idea turns out to be supernatural because it feels lazy but for this story it works.
There's something scary about footage through a low quality camera. Again, done very well here.
It was very engaging and I had my eyes glued to the screen. It actually prevented me from drinking my hot beverage because I didn't want to jump and spill it.
The only annoying part was the wife. It felt like if you married a true crime author that you wouldn't be mad when he did things that a true crime author had to do.