Reviews

Great concept ruined by absolutely stupid characters and garbage writing.

I felt more sympathy for the old blind man from Don't Breathe than our main protagonist here, that's how unlikeable she was. How exactly did 3 idiots plan to break into a home to steal millions of dollars and not a single one of them had a gun on them. How did a small blind girl take a gun from the floor beside a dead cop without any of them noticing. How did she walk around the house with the app on with Kelly talking on the phone's speakers without any of them hearing her....

Quite frankly, I think this would have been a lot more effective as a supernatural horror movie instead.

After about 400+ days of being near-confined in that basement, not once did they see that large nail sticking up? I'm sorry; but how many times did they go up and down the stairs and not see that thing sticking out? Just imagine for a second if that nail wasn't there, that little metal spike was the harbinger of the chaos that ensued in the last 45 minutes.

There's other problems I have, but those are things that other people have already said hundreds of times, such as: The waterfall, putting a 4 year old monkey-brained child behind them, bringing a child into a world like this, and the government's top scientists couldn't figure out that these creatures are ultra-sensitive to high-pitched sounds yet an average family living under a farm with below-average technology figured it out.

Movie was overall entertaining, but it's really hard to suspend my disbelief at this contrived and lazy writing at times.

Maybe it's just me though. I watch so many thriller/mystery/horror movies that I start becoming Sherlock in my mind while watching. Not that you need to be as smart as Sherlock to figure out the twist at the end.

After our douchebag main character confronts our creepy stalker protagonist about the damage done to his life, you can tell what's up. Just think about who this guy is and how many other people don't like him, and from what's presented to us in the running time of this movie, you'll most likely figure it out before it punches you in the face.

With that said though, I'd just like to say that the ending of this movie is now in the top 3 of my "movie endings that pissed me off" list.

This movie is not about Action, it's not about watching half a dozen men battle it out with a pack of wolves. It's not about seeing Liam Neeson wrestle to the death with an alpha wolf in the freezing snow.

Many fail to realize that this movie is an allegory for the struggles we face as we live our lives, and how every time something comes to challenge you between death and life you have to fight back and be strong.

By the end, you see his wife's dying on a hospital bed, her last words to him were "don't be afraid", telling him to be strong. This is where you realize why he's been contemplating suicide and how the world around him has become so cold. His life then flashes before his eyes with the unforgettable poem. That scene tears a hole in my heart every time I see it. I always cry until my eyes dry out at the last few minutes of this misunderstood movie.

You can talk about how unrealistic it is. About how poorly they showed how wolves act and the logic behind nature. But as far as I can tell, they already died when the plane crashed, them walking through the frozen wastelands of Alaska and getting picked off by the pack led by the black alpha wolf was them moving on one by one from purgatory as they slightly understood one another and what they've dealt with in their lives.

In the end, death is black and life is white, we all end up in the grey at some point.

That Area 51, a government facility holding top secret answers about the very existence of intelligent life forms in our universe that could unleash chaos upon our world, has such terrible security that 3 average jackasses can sneak into it?

Okay I'll be honest, it all seemed believable when they were explaining how they were going to get near it and went through with it, but how were they walking around inside without getting caught? Does Area 51 not have security cameras and guards monitoring them 24/7? They were legit sneaking and walking around inside the base and no one notices this until near the end.

Like.....I know I said this already, but just stop and think for a second about how stupid this sounds.

A government facility, funded by unlimited amounts of money, which holds answers to hard questions we ask every time we look into the sky, has such terrible security that 3 average teens/young adults holding cameras could break into it.

..........'kay

Otherwise, the acting was passable, the special effects were great, and the found footage feel was there, I just couldn't get over how stupid the writing was.

Middle class white American family, check. "Creepy" kid doing unusual stuff, check. Generic signs of a demonic presence such as hand prints/faucets turning on by themselves/doors opening by themselves, check. Family searches on the internet on what they're up against, check.

Oh, you want me to stop and write about the actual movie? Alright then.

Well, Other than the background story of the demons and the five stones, this is all the same garbage you've seen in just about every other horror movie to come out in the past 20 years. Some kid or character does something stupid, day by day things get worse, family calls supernatural investigators, they can't do much s***, family deals with it themselves somehow.

Unless you're 5 years old or you've been living under a rock and have never seen another horror movie in your life, the only thing about this movie that will scare you is what could have possibly been on Kevin Bacon's mind when he signed up to be in this train-wreck. The movie could have had one saving grace, but it was a missed opportunity. Because near the end, the ancient animal demonic avatars could have been horrifying if they actually tried, but when you finally see these 5 figures, you're not scared because you KNOW 100% that these are people with goofy looking masks, headdresses and costumes.

The only good thing I can say about this movie is Ilza Rosario's pretty face. But keep in mind, you have to go through over 70 minutes of boring garbage to see her for less than 10 minutes. Oh, the struggles...........

It's like the same old two original movies, just each of them cut down run-time, tone down the scares a bit, and a cheap plot device with a clichéd blind psychic girl sidekick to force them together for a disappointing 2 minute faceoff.

I'm proud to say I like Ju-On and Ringu, and I have always since middle school, but both of them suffer the exact same thing, terrible characters and stories overshadowed by decent scares. This movie is no exception. Actually, scratch a small part of that, there was ONE character that I was interested in, and that was Professor Morishige. His obsession with wanting to meet Sadako stroke my curiosity but we didn't find out anything because he got killed off halfway through.

All in all, I was somewhat excited for this movie because before it's existence I've always asked myself the same question. "What would happen if you watch that cursed videotape in that vile house of death?". Well my question finally got answered, and it was "lame disappointment".

Check it out if you're a fan of Ringu and/or Ju-On, but it's nothing spectacular.

The only two things that stopped me from giving this movie a lower rating is the very small twist near the end which I thought was pretty cool, and also it was still mildly entertaining.

The story is the same cookie-cutter premise you see in almost every other horror movie, a group of idiot teens doing one questionable thing after another which results into painful consequences, and of course if you pick it hard enough you'll find gaping holes.

The characters are forgettable, bland and punchable. I would say they're stupid too but it's a horror movie. That's like ordering a cheeseburger and complaining there's cheese in it. You kind of expect it. The only thing I liked about the cast was the acting, it was pretty decent and believable, but asides that it's the same thing you've seen many times. Out of our 4 main characters, we got two overly adventurous idiots (Seth and Elise), and we got our main character "good girl" (Chloe) who's always saying "I don't think this is a good idea, let's not do this" but eventually goes along with it anyways, and her meathead boyfriend (David) who's on the edge of both sides. Just by looking at them you KNOW who's going to die first and who's going to die last. I didn't care for any of these boring characters, the only thing I was interested in was to see how they were going to face their inevitable deaths, and I was very disappointed.

And with that said, this movie also could have been a million times more horrifying if someone with an imagination worked on it, but it was nothing. Just a throat slitting scene, very mild gore, one of them fused and mingled on the ceiling, a stitched mouth, and very crappy implications that demons are stalking them, such as crows slamming themselves into their house, and hard scratch marks on their bodies and car. Wow, soooooo original.

Overall, check it out if you're a horror movie junkie, but don't expect something amazing. I watched this on Netflix, and I'm glad I didn't pay to see it because I'd feel kind of ripped off.