This movie is nearly 2 hours long, but you really only need to see the last 15 minutes to witness anything extraordinary. The vast majority of the film is tedious and bleak, not suspenseful and unnerving like you would hope.I must also admit that I'm not a fan of indie movies. The low budget, amateur camera-work, and bad acting never help anything. Even if this were a theatrical release with a big budget, it still would have sucked though.To the people saying the ending disturbed them and stuck with them for days - really? This is nothing necessarily unique if you've seen a few horror films. It's pretty messed up, but nothing outrageous. If anything I chuckled at how absurd the finish was. You can see it coming a mile away.To sum up, this film is basically 80% bullying, 10% over the top bad parenting, and 10% gore. In hindsight, I usually don't like watching any of that, so I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking watching this. I'm a horror fan, but this is just a really weird movie.

To make you an idea the Blair witch Project back in 1999 have an estimated budget of $60.000 so think for ten seconds on that.$8.000 have to be something like 15 minutes of Brad Pitts's salary and this guy made a movie with that ...I was coming to point out the flaws and now that I know this I only can say this guy is a genius;With that money people these days do not make even a short.Now the sensation that the movie gave me was that it one of those that can surprise you (my case) or offend you.It is disturbing ,original and macabre and at the same time deals with a lot of dramatic family issues like secrets and the relationship between parents and sons.The cast and the acting has some point amateurish but it gave it a touch of realism in it own flaw.The faces in the cast are not the cliché pretty boys kind so it adds something more it remind me of HARMONY KORINE type of cast before Selena Gomez and James Franco.I recommended this movie to the people that want to see a dramatic thriller with real horror and I advice you not to see trailers go and dive in this one whit confident it will not let you indifferent.Knowing now about the budget for it originality I give it 9 out 10 Thank you well done!

This is one of those well done, well rounded movies that focused on every aspect of the story. Only thing lacking in the whole movie might be the budget, not sure was the camera aimed to look 80's-90's-ish, but in a movie it doesn't even matter. Setback were indoors and outdoors scenes with bad sound quality, bad camera, looking like TV movies, but scenes were without any reproach. Maybe it could have been fixed in editing, since some scenes jump out from the movie with lack of quality, but than again, it might be the budget (although think it was sufficient). Anyhow, it's refreshing to see a story with unique standpoint, without a doubt has this been a big production it would be a blockbuster. Narative, scenes, everything is flowing in same direction, with few unavoidable clichés. Well rounded movie, deserves a solid score and definitely a recommendation.

Found to me was a very edgy and viscerally jarring film that was thinking very much outside the box compared to most movies about young psycho killers. Even though most of it plays like a drama it definitely is a horror film, just a more low-key different approach to one, and one that's certainly not for everybody, particularly those of a weak stomach or who are easily offended. I found its overall atmosphere and tone to be very saddening and morbid, there were no jump scares or schlocky humorous horror gags, it's all very subtle and even ordinary, and to me all the more haunting in its everyday blandness than if they'd gone the typical route of trying to be scary in the more conventional way. I enjoyed how it seemed to be set in the late 80s/early 90s, it gave it a certain ambiance without it coming across as like they were purposefully trying to be retro or anything like that. By the end I was glad I watched it, it was a worthwhile viewing experience as I knew it would be from that opening line. It was chilling and poignant and the horrendously sick climax did stick with me for a few days after.. But, I also thought that it felt noticeably lacking somewhere and it ultimately wasn't all that satisfying, I just kept thinking that it all could have easily been done significantly better if it'd only had more money behind it. I couldn't believe that it had been made for only 8000. I mean that is seriously a micro budget, that being that case I'm happy to declare that what they managed get out of that was pretty amazing, but regardless the dark themes and messages of the movie are a little undermined and hampered by it's noticeably basic quality.. I thought Gavin Brown as "Marty" was a likable kid and good as the lead, he wasn't perfect but he was sure better than the other child actors in the movie, who I thought were the most amateur thing about it. But I did find him effective as just this little kid being pulled in many different directions from parent and bullying issues, and perhaps just a little desensitisation from one too many horror movies that he accepts the all too close to home horror of an older brother who has people's heads in a bag in his closet as if it's just another mere fact of his messed-up young life that he can't control. The acting of the big guy playing his only friend wasn't that great, but I found the sequence moving where he very suddenly turns on Marty who then later burns the little thing they shared together, which was a comic book they were making. I thought the relationship with his older psychotic brother "Steve" was well-realised and it felt sincere. Ethan Philbeck was a bit over-intense in his delivery for me, but he was good at showing the love for his little brother - who by the bitter end he seemed to regard as something pure - and he was also effective at being threatening to him at the same time. Steve's motivation wasn't developed enough, that stupid angle they toss into the movie in the middle and never mention again of him killing for racist reasons was unnecessary and meaningless. The film also hits you over the head a lot with the tired old theory that horror flicks have the mystical power to corrupt and influence the young minds of the unwary, which is something that I always felt was total bullshit, as to my point of view even the vilest of horror pictures are basically just entertainment and by themselves aren't capable of bringing out such badness in a human being unless they are already damaged to begin with and are susceptible. There's a sense of inevitability that underscores it as the events slowly build up to the ending, like the disaster of the sick maniac brother who's clearly about to explode is like an oncoming collision that little Marty is helpless to do anything about. It actually meant a lot to me when Marty finally realised that the monster before him was not the brother he once knew. My god, that ending truly takes you down into hell. It's strange, to look at it's not necessarily all that gruesome or intense, but when you think about it and let it sink in a little it's just incredibly horrifying, it made me feel grim and sick to my core. This is one movie that seriously messes with you... I didn't like the way they closed the movie with the sentence "This is the kind of thing that can warp a person", I thought it ended things on a bit of an inappropriately comedic note. So in closing despite its limitations, this flick does stand out from many other independent horrors due to its realistic nature, shattering atmosphere, and eerily well done gore effects. Bye, go easy on ya family!