Finally got around to seeing this today. I'd been looking forward to this for the last couple weeks. I can honestly say that I was very disappointed.
No spoilers.
I'll start off with the good, both actors were good, and they were a believable late 20 something couple. The film doesn't drag, but I did find the pacing to be off. The film basically has two modes, the couple talking about what's happening at night, and then the night vision haunting scenes. You find yourself checking your watch just aching to get back to the haunting scenes. The only time I enjoyed the day to day scenes was a scene including a psychic who they consult, because he is the one who describes the "entity" and is the one who instills the fear in you. And while the tension is good during the haunting scenes, the scare payoffs are extremely weak and predictable. Yes, the film felt very real, mostly because of how real the two main actors come across in the film.
Now for the bad.
There are 2 main characters. Shouldn't be a difficult task to make me care about them, leaving the film I knew little about their background, their relationship, what they do or who they are, certainly one thing that you need in a movie like this, and it was missing. The torment they may go through doesn't mean anything if you don't know who they are and just how much trauma they're being put through.
And there was a massive lack of environment. I don't know if that can be attributed to the first person aspect of the film, but I didn't feel enveloped in the movie at all. Leaving things to your imagination doesn't work when you don't feel overpowered by the film's setting.
To me, the "scares" came off as nothing but "creepy" to me. Nothing that would make me jump out of my seat, but get a little anxious, sure.
Different people are going to take this movie different ways. While I may not have been taken by storm by this movie, all horror fans should check it out definitely.
6/10.
Not much of a review, I know, but those are my general feelings.
