It isn't shot on someone's cell phone. In fact, it was very well lit, composed, and tended to in post. The effects are sparse but convincing.
For it being populated with people playing themselves, including most of the crew, it is fairly well-acted. I have seen much worse. But honestly, the local folks they grabbed off the street were also really convincing. Some of them veterans of John Waters's heyday.
The story is meh. It's part Candyman, Slenderman, Mothman, the Ring, etc. before it even plays its seemingly out-of-place Blair Witch card. But the charismatic guy portraying Gavin sells the narrative best he can. The female in the found footage stuff is slightly OTT but she gets hers so....
It wasn't great; but it wasn't a seething pile of bored millennials and the iPhones pretending, either. It's right in the middle.
For it being populated with people playing themselves, including most of the crew, it is fairly well-acted. I have seen much worse. But honestly, the local folks they grabbed off the street were also really convincing. Some of them veterans of John Waters's heyday.
The story is meh. It's part Candyman, Slenderman, Mothman, the Ring, etc. before it even plays its seemingly out-of-place Blair Witch card. But the charismatic guy portraying Gavin sells the narrative best he can. The female in the found footage stuff is slightly OTT but she gets hers so....
It wasn't great; but it wasn't a seething pile of bored millennials and the iPhones pretending, either. It's right in the middle.