I have so much I could say about this movie, but I already feel like I've wasted too much of my life on it just by watching it. Holy smokes, I can't believe I'm gonna even write this review.
I was excited for this movie, really and truly. I love horror, I love art films, love anything experimental and different, aaaaaand I was basically left annoyed and unfulfilled. I felt ripped off and lied to by everyone that said anything good about this film.
The plot is so thin that you'll end up with a papercut.
The characters have no dimension, and you don't even really see them. You might see an ankle or two a couple times if you're actually able to keep your eyes on the screen. Mine spent most of the time looking around the room because staring at a blank wall was more entertaining than this film. Oh wait... that basically WAS the film. Every other shot is just a corner of a wall, or a lamp in the dark. WAY too many shots are just cartoons blaring on a TV in a dark room. I'm actually kind of inspired to recut this movie and take out all the empty shots and see what we are left with. The shots linger for way too long, and not in a way that seems creepy and unsettling, just in a way that's outright annoying. I kept skipping ahead.
Every now and then someone will speak, but in the most unnatural way that nobody ever speaks. One kid will mumble something that requires subtitles to understand, then there's like 30-45 seconds of silence before the other kid responds in an equally indecipherable way. Funny part is, they're the easiest part of the film to understand. The entity doesn't even really actually speak, it's just weird noises with subtitles that pretend like it's speaking? It doesn't sound creepy or anything, it's just downright lazy. When Kevin finally calls the police, you can't hear the operator, it's just subtitles. Really? I guess the budget didn't allow for an extra voice to be cast. At the same time that you can't hear the operator, his whispering is just WAY too loud.
Seriously, the sound mixing in this is as if it was someone's first time working with sound, or maybe possibly even hearing sound for the first time in their life. I was constantly changing the volume because it's so poorly done.
By the way, everything you've read about this film that makes it sound interesting, is grossly exaggerated. I turned it off at 40 minutes because nothing had happened yet, (and not in the way that other movies have nothing happen as in boring stuff happens, I mean LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS) and I googled the ending of the plot. The Wiki plot makes it sound *almost* watchable, but it embellishes a lot. I decided to give it a second shot because it sounded like it would pick up. Not saying they lie per say, but for example, one part of the plot is that Kevin stabs himself in the eye because the entity tells him to, but it's just a blurry shot of the kid sitting there being told to do it, and then it cuts to the next clip. It's implied, sure, but at no point does that actually happen in the movie.
The first time you actually see Kaylee is when her eyes and mouth are taken from her, but like... we never saw her with them, so why the - would we care that she lost them. There's no shock value because there's no contrast, because we've never seen her face before. Plus, you can barely even see her because it's so dark and grainy. It probably sounds dumb to put it that way, of course someone without features would be creepy right? You'd think so, wouldn't you. Heh. Not the case.
Even the jump scares fall flat. All of them are just quiet clip, quiet clip, LOUD CLIP, but the thing is you're just so damn bored that even a jump scare won't rouse you.
Seriously, just stare at the corner of your bedroom if you want to see this movie, because that's basically it.
If you've seen toys that haven't been picked up off the floor then you've seen the movie.
It's boring, it's lazy, it's faked being grainy/low quality, it's terrible sound mixing, it's horrendous writing, it's awful acting, it's everything that you expect to come out of a cesspool like Edmonton.
I was excited for this movie, really and truly. I love horror, I love art films, love anything experimental and different, aaaaaand I was basically left annoyed and unfulfilled. I felt ripped off and lied to by everyone that said anything good about this film.
The plot is so thin that you'll end up with a papercut.
The characters have no dimension, and you don't even really see them. You might see an ankle or two a couple times if you're actually able to keep your eyes on the screen. Mine spent most of the time looking around the room because staring at a blank wall was more entertaining than this film. Oh wait... that basically WAS the film. Every other shot is just a corner of a wall, or a lamp in the dark. WAY too many shots are just cartoons blaring on a TV in a dark room. I'm actually kind of inspired to recut this movie and take out all the empty shots and see what we are left with. The shots linger for way too long, and not in a way that seems creepy and unsettling, just in a way that's outright annoying. I kept skipping ahead.
Every now and then someone will speak, but in the most unnatural way that nobody ever speaks. One kid will mumble something that requires subtitles to understand, then there's like 30-45 seconds of silence before the other kid responds in an equally indecipherable way. Funny part is, they're the easiest part of the film to understand. The entity doesn't even really actually speak, it's just weird noises with subtitles that pretend like it's speaking? It doesn't sound creepy or anything, it's just downright lazy. When Kevin finally calls the police, you can't hear the operator, it's just subtitles. Really? I guess the budget didn't allow for an extra voice to be cast. At the same time that you can't hear the operator, his whispering is just WAY too loud.
Seriously, the sound mixing in this is as if it was someone's first time working with sound, or maybe possibly even hearing sound for the first time in their life. I was constantly changing the volume because it's so poorly done.
By the way, everything you've read about this film that makes it sound interesting, is grossly exaggerated. I turned it off at 40 minutes because nothing had happened yet, (and not in the way that other movies have nothing happen as in boring stuff happens, I mean LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS) and I googled the ending of the plot. The Wiki plot makes it sound *almost* watchable, but it embellishes a lot. I decided to give it a second shot because it sounded like it would pick up. Not saying they lie per say, but for example, one part of the plot is that Kevin stabs himself in the eye because the entity tells him to, but it's just a blurry shot of the kid sitting there being told to do it, and then it cuts to the next clip. It's implied, sure, but at no point does that actually happen in the movie.
The first time you actually see Kaylee is when her eyes and mouth are taken from her, but like... we never saw her with them, so why the - would we care that she lost them. There's no shock value because there's no contrast, because we've never seen her face before. Plus, you can barely even see her because it's so dark and grainy. It probably sounds dumb to put it that way, of course someone without features would be creepy right? You'd think so, wouldn't you. Heh. Not the case.
Even the jump scares fall flat. All of them are just quiet clip, quiet clip, LOUD CLIP, but the thing is you're just so damn bored that even a jump scare won't rouse you.
Seriously, just stare at the corner of your bedroom if you want to see this movie, because that's basically it.
If you've seen toys that haven't been picked up off the floor then you've seen the movie.
It's boring, it's lazy, it's faked being grainy/low quality, it's terrible sound mixing, it's horrendous writing, it's awful acting, it's everything that you expect to come out of a cesspool like Edmonton.