I like analog horror and when it's done right it can really be something special. But when it's done poorly the cracks are really easy to spot and it just comes off as being crap. That's unfortunately how this comes off overall.
Don't get me wrong there are some good parts to it but it doesn't feel organic. Instead it literally feels like somebody's paint by numbers set. You know those things add this color here, that color there and you now have a crappy painting.
This takes place during a blizzard in 1983 in a small town in Minnesota. The town vanished after this storm and we're left to pick up the pieces. It's told through audio recordings and videos. Some good some bad.
The good make good use of the medium and that's mostly the audio recordings. The video recordings? They're less good and the biggest problem there is the camera is treated like it's a character. Now I want you to imagine a scene. You're filming yourself doing something and you hear somebody call to you off to the side. Would you A) look over to where the person was or B) look through the camera where they are?
The answer to that is of course A but in this series it's always B. And that's a big problem. It's made worse by the acting in this which is community theater acting at best. There's a couple people that give a good performance with the material they're given. The private investigator for example. But for the most part the lines are spoken by non-actors trying to act.
All in all it's not the worst I've seen but it's far from the best.
Don't get me wrong there are some good parts to it but it doesn't feel organic. Instead it literally feels like somebody's paint by numbers set. You know those things add this color here, that color there and you now have a crappy painting.
This takes place during a blizzard in 1983 in a small town in Minnesota. The town vanished after this storm and we're left to pick up the pieces. It's told through audio recordings and videos. Some good some bad.
The good make good use of the medium and that's mostly the audio recordings. The video recordings? They're less good and the biggest problem there is the camera is treated like it's a character. Now I want you to imagine a scene. You're filming yourself doing something and you hear somebody call to you off to the side. Would you A) look over to where the person was or B) look through the camera where they are?
The answer to that is of course A but in this series it's always B. And that's a big problem. It's made worse by the acting in this which is community theater acting at best. There's a couple people that give a good performance with the material they're given. The private investigator for example. But for the most part the lines are spoken by non-actors trying to act.
All in all it's not the worst I've seen but it's far from the best.
