Cool concept - in this case

Rating: 8/10 (29 April 2002)

Sure there are those who are going to complain about what appears to be home movie quality film being pushed as a major motion picture. There also are those who will claim the movie is not "scary" because it never shows what exactly is chasing/stalking the three students. These type have missed the whole concept of the film. The purpose is to confuse and disorient the viewer while showing the characters slowly breaking down into exhaustive fear. The audience is never fully sure of what is happening and only sees a limited bit of the story through the lens of a camera focused as a point of view from whoever happens to be holding it at the time. The audience is left with more questions than answers, but that seems to be the intent of the producers.
It is the disorientation and limited visual information that help bring on the fear factor of the story. The plot alone is weak, the dialogue is nothing special (it does appear to have been made up as the actors went along) and the cinematography is poor considering only the cameras' mounted lights or natural sun light were used.
This movie works, though.