The movie starts as most shaky cam movies and proceeds along the same lines. Unlike most of the others, however, as it proceeded, it had that original "Blair Witch" feeling. I was really starting to dig it until the last 10-15 minutes. That's when everything this otherwise smart and entertaining movie was leading up to fell apart. It's almost like they had a great writer and director for most of the movie and replaced them with a twelve-year old at the end. As a result, the investment made in sitting through this didn't pay off.An earlier reviewer said that the people giving this a poor rating didn't get it. Isn't it funny how there is always one egghead that has to defend a bad movie by saying the majority of people who watched it didn't get it. The reviewer went on to say that the movie was supposed to be a campy spoof about American reality shows. He couldn't be more wrong. In fact, the movie doesn't get campy (or in my mind "stupid") until the end. Up to that point, the movie was neither a spoof or campy - it was simply a shaky cam horror movie.BTW, I'd like to inform that reviewer that using the worst cartoon-like CG effects at the end does not a campy movie make.

A large portion of the reviews of this film explain why this is a very good film. To read that "nothing happened" and it "wasn't scary until the end" means that the film fooled some percentage of it's watchers. Of course, it is no more a horror film than a Simpsons or Family Guy episode with ghosts and witches would be a scary cartoon. It's just absurdist humor with purposely bad special effects. And, it's mostly hilarious. I rarely laugh at movie comedies. This was a total gag fest, and I had many hearty guffaws.The only problem with it is the typical contrived "must keep filming even when all my friends are dying horrible deaths around me" conundrum of all found footage films. Other than that, it's a very enjoyable comedy.

I have done one other review then this and I'll start the same way as before. never let this or any other review stop you from watching any movie, no one truly knows why anyone likes a movie and the person next to you doesn't.I really like movies like Plan 9 and Robot Monster as well Cinderella Man all the marvel comics stuff a lot of mainstream hits a bunch of art house carp the classic German criminal film series M. A lot of different things. So This is a the absolute last found footage movie I can take all of these movies you see why someone holds on to the camera but here it is so ridiculous I don't think the person at the end is physically capable of holding it.so dumb so funny not scary all I did

They're WatchingThings go wrong when American's visit an Eastern European country to film. This trope is dead and this film beats the dead horse into oblivion. Quick cuts and poor editing make this film hard to watch. The horrible characters and writing means the viewer has to suffer through a boring and overly stereotyped scenes and characters.Jay Lender and Micah Wright directed and wrote They're Watching. This probably explains why I didn't enjoy Phineas and Ferb, and The Angry Beavers. There are overly artsy style shots and then quick to over the shoulder close ups. It all adds up to bad direction. The conversations don't feel authentic which was a feeling the movie was going for.Brigid Brannagh plays Becky, I enjoyed her acting in Army Wives and she easily does the best performance of the film. A bright light in the boring abyss. She has believable reactions and adds to the poor writing with her acting.The worst actress in the film and probably what brought it down further for me was Carrie Genzel who plays Kate. She's used as an excuse for sex scenes and elaborate ways of swearing. There's of course no reason for her actions other than to sell the movie or make for scenes to have an odd conclusion. The camera needs to turn off if you accidentally stumble upon two people going at it. The camera needs to spy on people swearing at each other by themselves. She's recognizable but only because she's been in plenty of movies. The trick is she's almost never the lead, and for good reason.Verdict: Don't waste your time and money.