Even though it’s supposed to be crew only, Brian asks his girlfriend and brother to come along. Then he gets bent out of shape when his brother brings a girlfriend.
Although Brian claims to be making a film about the murders, it’s more apt to say he’s making a film about himself solving the murders. His focus is his own commentary, which has no basis in fact and he doesn’t seem to have done any research. His comments are all braggadocio or meant to be sensational, such as when he says the little boy that was killed “…bit it right in the corner, probably begging for murder.” Or when he brags about being the first person to shoot there because the last people who tried to film there were murdered. Hooray?
Brian is a clown. There are multiple times he ignores things that others say to him or information that could be useful. He claims to be trying to solve the murders, yet when his girlfriend gets information that their friends are in danger and the potential identity of the murderer, he gets mad because she runs into his interview with the Sheriff. So much for solving the mystery of who is killing people in the house.
There is also a scene where Brian’s professor casually asks another student what Brian is doing his film on. When told, he looks alarmed, runs out of his office, jumps in the car and drives two hours to the home. Everyone is already asleep so he wanders through the house and fate is not kind to him. But we’re not let in on what knowledge he had about the location that was so alarming and why he felt the immediate need to rush out there. Or why he wouldn’t alert the local Sheriff and ask him to do a wellness check? At a minimum the students are trespassing and need to leave.
The cinematography is questionable. Much of it consists of extreme close ups of peoples faces. There’s no need to be that close or do so that often. There are excessive cuts during each scene and several scenes where they’re essentially shooting right up a girls ass.
Most of the time the music is overly dramatic, as if it’s building up to something happening or a jump scare. Yet it’s used for the most mundane things, such as: sitting in a hot tub; driving down the road; talking about what they’re going to do; or waiting for the sound guy to arrive.
The credits are odd. They appear before the title card and based on the title font and background, you’d think it was a story about the time of King Arthur. The title music is like something you’d hear in a video game, and the photos show there is a monster. So before the credits end we’re tipped off to the identify of our killer.
The lack of proofreading is apparent in the graphic on hypertrichosis, which has three words misspelled, including hypertrichosis. Although the funniest part is the use of the word decease where it should say disease.
Uttering annoying dialogue from some jerks:
What?
We gotta go. Now.
What?
Come on. Everyone now. Come on, we gotta go.
What? What’s, what’s wrong? What’s your problem?
Come on everyone now. Come on. We gotta go.
Why?
Brian, come on.
Why?
Just come on. Brian, come on.
What? What’s going on?
Take a look at this place. [massive sniff] I can smell it. Murder is in the air.
Basically his chest bone was cracked like a peanut.
And yes, the same house where the last people that tried to shoot here were murdered, making me the first person to shoot here.
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| Based on the how high he’s holding the camera, he’s only filming the top part of Brian’s head |
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| He’s Willem Defoe-ing it |
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| Do they normally stick lights on the walls? |
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| Expect a lot of unnecessary close ups |
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| What is he looking at? |
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| Close up? Sure, why not. |
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| How quiet is the monster? He didn’t notice it crawled over the car to get between him and the drivers door? |
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| Was the ghost supposed to stare into the camera? |
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| Shoulder wounds equal death |
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| We need more close ups. |
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| Perv cam |
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| We don’t have enough extreme close ups |
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| This made me think it was in the time of King Arthur |
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| So the credits tell us the killer? |
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| Three spelling errors - it’s disease, not decease. Hypertrichosis has an H and unknown not unknow. |
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| A shot that will confuse the hell out of you until you realize you’re through an upstairs window and the bump is the lock on the sill |
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