Excellent film

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2013)

I'm not sure why some people have given this film bad reviews, if you liked Insidious then this will appeal. I saw this at home and wished I'd have seen it at the cinema. I like my horror's American and foreign, I also like the more clever horror's without the age old heroin making silly decisions which would not happen in real life. Warning this review may contain spoilers!! Firstly the acting from the main character is good, admittedly the wife and police officer are lousy in places but I don't think it matters really. After all the story isn't about them and they don't really appear much. The story centres around a struggling writer who is trying to write a new best seller about a family who were murdered, he moves into their old house with his family. He finds a box of old super 8 films in the attic and a projector, he of course views them and sees that they are all about family murders which date back to the 1960's. The films themselves were suitably creepy and very well done. The lawnmower one in particular was a jumper! The plot was nice, not too complicated but interesting enough, the end twist was nicely done. I was pleasantly surprised that the film made me jump a few times and that doesn't often happen. In fact the only other which did was Insidious. This is one of what seems to be a new genre of film which get back to good old creeps and jumps. Not a moment too soon for me! Slasher films have been done to death and the creepy paranormal films in my view are the one's which stay with you the longest and make you not want to go upstairs into the dark.
All in all a very good film, could not have been more impressed.