Fans of spooky ghost stuff will pry like it fine, but mileage will vary. I don’t this film is a total bust-it is a standard found footage flick that emphasizes dread over gore. This is the problem with this genre, there is only so much you can really do with it, so whatever creativity this one has is washed away with the audience knowing too much. For folks familiar with the genre, it smacks of a little too familiar a story. If this is someone’s first outing into found footage it might be more effective. The scares are subtle and slowly escalate-everything goes to the found footage formula. The curtains are perfectly opened with equal space-who does that? If it is freezing, why the T-shirt? In found footage we are always trying to scan the surroundings for something to happen, but here it is simply too pristine. While the details might seem like a small nit-pick, they are oddly noticeable. We keep our house organized, but right now we have a book, a notepad, two controllers and a water bottle on the coffee table. Everything has a sort of model home feel to it. Where they overlooked was the apartment-it doesn’t look lived in. They focused on the Dybbuk Box (which does look cool) and making Chris an engaging host. The worst part of the film is the failure to pay attention to all the details. If more were presented like this I might actually watch them more. I am sure this would be a negative for some, but whenever I watch youtubers, most of them can’t stop shouting or screaming and I turn it off. The best part of the film is that Chris reacts calmly. I suppose he thinks buying the box from child predators will be better than buying from a flea market collector off Ebay. The camera angels are often weird, causing him to have to turn his head to talk to us, which is something I think looks odd (but is true to form).Ĭhris ain’t a wimp, so he’s buying his off the dark web, which gets him his identify stolen and causes all sorts of troubles-kidding. His dialogue feels a little stilted-more adlibbing would have helped instead of following a script. Chris isn’t a bad host, and he seems comfortable in this sort of setting, which is good. What found footage needs is an engaging host. We follow Chris, who is curious to do his own investigation on these Dybbuk boxes and will do one on his channel(?). We’re not stupid Chris (well, not always).Ī great way to start a film is to have your intelligence insulted. Actual verifiable proof of the paranormal? Really? Really?! Good thing I just happened to stumble upon this crap and have my life changed. It isn’t, no one believes this, and it hurts the film. This is serious guys-real real serious-it’s not just another low budget horror film-nooooo.Īlso, enough with the supposed experts saying this crap is real. A better movie would have just been the story-but, noooooo we’ve got to make it seem more important with pretentious dramatic music played over the intro. The heavy-handed “this is real” garbage needs to be excised from horror films moving forward. This is a fake movie that is capitalizing on a fake trend. Plenty of films can be entertaining (and have a documentary feel) without having to shove so much crap at us about it being real. Full disclosure: I have enjoyed some of these fake documentaries before, but not because they were trying so hard to make it seem real.
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