Posted

Nov 11th 2009

Mood

This contains spoilers and was written in a medicine induced daze. I apologize if I repeat myself excessively or for any other irritating bits. It's just a bunch of annoyed rambling.

If you liked this movie I hope nothing less than a brain tumor upon you. A tumor that causes you to slowly lose your sanity and inevitably lead to a painful death. When you're hyping a movie as the scariest movie in years or even ever made you should probably have something scary in it. The entire movie was a set-up to a payoff that never came.

Could we please stop with the "real footage" style of filming in horror? When the people in your movie act like generic morons from any other horror film it doesn't really past the realism test. Nothing about this was believable. If you're unaware the true "horror" of this film comes from the majority of the spookyness taking place in a bedroom. Sure, that's unnerving, a bedroom is often considered a safe and comfortable place. When something happens in this movie it always ends up leading back to the bedroom of the two characters. That's a noble attempt at trying to bring terror to someone's personal safe zone. This is where the movie takes a nosedive off of the believability board.

For the entirety of the film EVERY night they sleep not only with their door wide open but the lights off. The stupid demon who's haunting them could have been stopped by simply closing the bedroom door. Nothing he does until the last few minutes go past that threshold. Wouldn't any normal person who's afraid of something attacking them in the night take at least that one simple precaution? Instead each night they go to bed with nothing more than a camera filming them.

They also like to point out that even if they leave the house the demon will still follow them. Who in their right mind would still stick around their house after you literally see foot prints in your bedroom? Even if it is true that you're going to be followed hows about you leave anyway? I don't think it's too crazy to go rent a hotel room at least once.

It also doesn't help things when every scare in the movie is shown in the preview. It's a run of the mill predictability fest and even without the trailer you can tell what's going to happen next.



I'm aware this movie was made on an incredibly low-budget and within two days of filming. If that's all it was I wouldn't have been so irritated by it. For some reason critics across the board have hailed this as the horror movie to end all and I just don't see it. The remakes of already bad Japanese horror films are creepier than this. Then again, what do I know? I'm not the one who made an outrageous amount of money on a generic movie.