You wish you'd come up with the idea yourselves...

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 2001)

When I first saw this film in the theater it had been sufficiently hyped, and I have to admit that I didn't find it all that scary. But I was really impressed with both the idea and the execution; the acting, in my opinion, was wholly believable, and the "documentary" / "found footage" style was likewise quite well done.
It wasn't until I saw this movie again that I realized how suspenseful it actually is (probably because I wasn't so concerned with the technical achievements the second time around)--no small task for a movie in this day and age of failed and, let's face it, mostly laughable horror flicks.
It seems to me that this movie has become something of a whipping boy lately for those reviewers who wish to affect a certain neo-hipster attitude. An Indie movie that achieved financial success? Must really rot if the masses liked it. Let's knock it down a peg. Let's all come up with a really good line about camera shake and vomit. Yawn.
An ambitious project made more ambitious by it's marketing strategy. And a truly well done film.