After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett
Starring: Allison Miller, Zach Gilford, Steffie Grote and others
Seems that most people are split on this movie. Guess it's being a case
of you'll either love it or hate it. And even though I most definitely
did not loved this movie, I was definitely able to appreciate it and
like it for what it was!
At least thing you can say about it, even if you didn't liked it, is
that it's taking an original take on the found footage genre. I
definitely mostly got fed up with this genre, some movies ago already
and grew tired of movies using hand-held, shaky cams. It worked out
quite well for this movie however in my opinion. It worked out
successful because they combined it with a classic horror sub-genre;
the horror anthology genre, that basically is being a movie with a
bunch of short and individual segments, each often featuring their own
story and characters, like this movie does as well.
The stories on their own probably wouldn't had been solid or original
enough to turn into a full length movie but as shorts they are
definitely bearable and even have plenty of good elements in them. It's
always a sort of a problem that these type of movies often featuring 1
or 2 truly good and successful short stories and the rest is being just
average, or even below that level. That's not really the case for this
movie though. Each story has something good and interesting about it
and I can't really name 1 that stands out or was being below average.
It's a pretty consistent movie all the way through, even while the
stories aren't being really connected and each one got done by a
different director and cast & crew involved.
Can't really say this is being a very scary movie, unless you're one of
those persons that easily gets startled by a sound in the background or
stuff that gets only implied. It still has a great classic horror feel
to it, even though its taking a modern approach. I also sincerely
therefore do believe that most horror lovers shall be able to
appreciate this movie and might even fall in love with it, as many
other people already seem to have done. There is also still being a
decent amount of gore and some good effects present in this movie.
The whole concept is being still a bit faulty though. I mean, it's sort
of ridicules once you start paying attention to it, as to how much
stuff got filmed by the characters in this movie. Nobody ever thinks
about stop filming and start becoming busy trying to run or survive.
But that's just something that is an integrated part of the found
footage genre and something you more or less have to take for granted,
when watching a movie like this.
It also was sort of annoying how nothing ever really got explained in
this movie. It doesn't explain where the monsters or killers came from,
or what they wanted exactly and what happened after the camera's went
dark. There just hardly is any background for any of the stories. Most
people won't be troubled by this though and will just have a good time
watching this, like I, for most part, did as well.
In my opinion nothing more and nothing less but an enjoyable and fine
modern take on the anthology horror sub-genre. No doubt that it shall
spawn a couple of sequels or rip-offs. After all, these type of movies
are fast and cheap to produce and highly profitable.
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for. From: IMDb.com
Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West & Adam Wingard
Starring: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard and others
