Horror movies has long suffered from an illness called "lack of originality". There are several ways to combat this, one of them is risking. This Spanish film, directed by Carles Torrens and written by Rodrigo Cortés, tried to risk, but the shot backfired due to the stupid ideas that passed through the heads of these two gentlemen. It must be said, however, that Spanish cinema has been responsible for some of the most airy and innovative horror films of recent years, and this has made me expect something more from this film that never came.Using the old "found footage" formula, which we have already seen in "Paranormal Activity" and "Last Exorcism", we follow a team of experts who will investigate strange phenomena in a house where a man and two kids are living after the recent death of his wife/mother. And here the inconsistencies begin... for example, the experts say they don't want to disturb their comfort but, at the same time, they settle in their house, fill everything with machinery and put more cameras than in "The Big Brother" show . Does it make sense? Shortly after, the audience begins to be toasted with subtle supernatural activities that worsen over time, but the film doesn't explore this, preferring to suggest "logical explanations" for the phenomena. Many of them are implicitly suggested but they're there: sickness, sexual harassment, murder... the film shoots in all directions until it disproves its own haunting thesis, contradicting itself to the point that we no longer know what the hell of experts are those guys! The ending turns out to be so bad and disappointing that it makes me want to make the screenwriter to swallow the movie.Brutal inconsistencies, bad script options, bad dialogues, a lot of dead moments with some scares in the middle... In all these mud, there's something positive: good sound and special effects is much better than the poor quality that reigns in horror films and Gia Mantegna overcame her youth and inexperience, proving to be a better actress than many of those adults... Kai Lennox was also well, in a suffered and psychologically very heavy character. And that's all that this unfortunate movie has to give us. It doesn't add anything good to the genre and will not bring good memories to anyone involved. Fortunately, it also turns out to be so forgettable that you're probably going to forget it the day after watching.
... View MoreAbsolute drivel. You can tell the moment the movie starts, from the dopey-looking, moronic halfwit narrating, that this is going to be no Oscar-winner! It appears to have been produced by a "Movie-Making 101" class on their first morning.Lousy direction, pathetic "acting", dreadful cinematography specialising in dark, darker, the darkest scenes imaginable. It was a shame to bring little children into this mess, btw. WHY are movies of this type being made? WHO is the audience? NOT recommended, unless you want to punish yourself for something !
... View MoreSo yeah I just watched this movie and it sucked. The quality was poor, there was no real story and when he explained something about his dead- ex-wife it was at the end of the movie, in the last 25 minutes and it took forever!I felt an invader in these people's life the whole time I was watching it. They didn't explain anything, it just goes with the flow in the family, like it is normal there (as example, about his ex-wife and why his daughter basically hates him). Nobody was really impressed with the chick haunting the place and they kept all cool under every circumstance.The big laughter of this movie was the ending. Of course they leave one camera on. Of course the ghost drops a painting and of course the camera moves upwards and the ghost crawls towards the camera. It was too predictable this movie, they didn't show anything new. Sometimes i was thinking, Ow that's cool, like when the girl is floating in mid-air. But after 5 seconds it was bashed into the ground with the quality this movie was made. There was zero character development and the actors where no good.So I gave this movie a 3. Normally I love the more unknown horror movies, I can really delve into it, but this movie is a no-go for me.
... View MoreWidower Alan White invites parapsychologists Dr. Helzer and colleagues, to investigate a supernatural phenomenon in his apartment in an old apartment building. Alan is an unemployed engineer living with his four year-old son Benny and his teenage daughter Caitlin, who blames her father for the death of her mother. After witnessing weird events, Dr. Helzer and his team find the cause of the activities...I saw this because I got my times wrong with a screening, so this was a last minute choice, and I audibly sighed when I saw it was yet again another found footage movie.It starts off like any other FF movie, the set up features the troubled father, the aggressive daughter, and the son who is oblivious to everything.It plays like Insidious Meets Paranormal Activity by way of The Entity, and honestly, it's a lot better than I expected.It's down to some eerie camera work, and a very good performance from the girl who played the aggressive teenager, who makes the mood very unsettling.I don't know why I found it so entertaining, because it features nothing new, perhaps it's because my expectations dropped to rock bottom when I found out it was Found Footage.Well worth seeing I reckon.
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