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	sheep 2009-11-11 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know but can you tell me if it's worth seeing? (Reply to this)(Thread)

solle
2009-11-11 08:52 pm UTC (link)

I thought the main characters were ridiculously annoying. Pretty much on the level of Marcy and Jefferson from Married With Children, only played straight and in no way as entertaining. They're those twentysomething neighbors you never invite over for dinner.

It had some really good moments, but it was mostly... "OH MY GOD, A DOOR JUST CLOSED! LET'S FREAK OUT!" (...) "OH MY GOD, A OUIJA BOARD MOVED BY ITSELF AND CAUGHT FIRE! LET'S - um, freak out decidedly less and just sleep on it for a while!"

Annoying people making bad decisions in the dark in a movie shot in just a couple of days. If that's your kind of thing, go see it, it's really a pretty decent film. Just not worth all the hype IMHO.

Also, no, there aren't any credits. That was the ending. It's a Blair Witch kind of thing.

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	rhrsoulmates 2009-11-11 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	I liked it a lot so it's really up to the individual and your mindset going into it (and if you even like scary movies). I saw it before wide release and I wanted to be spooked but not grossed out, a la most "horror" movies of late. I knew it had a ridiculously low budget with total newbie "actors" so I didn't have super high expectations. My friend and I both had fun. (Reply to this)(Parent)

vejiicakes
2009-11-11 10:56 pm UTC (link)

Well, I saw the pre-theatrical cut DVD rip and.. no. I hear the theatrical version had a much more fulfilling/scary payoff at the end, but my understanding is that the rest of the movie is the same as what I saw, which doesn't make it worth it to me.

Kind of fun to watch the rip with friends though. We gathered around the laptop and mocked the movie's idea of characterization.

"So are they going to have discernible personalities or anything?"
"Well, you've got the man, and the woman. ...I think that's going to be our characterizations in a nut shell."
[Guy tries to use camera for sex vid, then calls out the unseen entity to like, have a night brawl or something]
"Yyyyep."

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	wankaholic 2009-11-11 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	Definitely not. Really boring, badly acted, and badly paced. The first twenty minutes or so are fairly good, but after that the ending falls apart and there are plotholes from Hell. (Reply to this)(Parent)

rogue
2009-11-11 11:46 pm UTC (link)

If you enjoy the genre for what it is, you might enjoy it... like at a matinee price, I guess. Personally I found it frustrating because every time there was a hint of something remotely interesting, it was dropped in favor of more annoying bickering. There was nothing satisfying about it. I hear the in-theater ending is better than the original cut, but having read details, not much better.

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	pinkranger 2009-11-12 12:51 am UTC (link)
	I can't really say since I find horror to be very personal. What scares you might not scare me. I found it pretty scary though, which I found odd since I laugh at ghost movies. It might not make you jump or scream (I didn't) but I found I felt pretty tense as the days go on in the story. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kitt_in_socks
2009-11-12 02:04 am UTC (link)

My thoughts exactly. I usually laugh my ass off at horror movies, but for some reason this really bothered me. And my friends who usually aren't into horror movies were just "meh."

I think it was more the idea than the presentation. Weird Shit happens when you're asleep, and you don't know about it until it's too late. Unless your fiancee has the braincells of an oyster and thinks "Don't poke the monster!" means "Poke it! Poke it!"

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pinkranger
2009-11-12 08:15 pm UTC (link)

Agreed. When you watch it and you think about what's happening, it's fucked up. It's not like stupid teenagers going into a dilapidated slaughterhouse to make out, it's a woman who can't escape it, no matter where she goes. It's not her bedroom that's haunted, it's her.

And the bad shit happening at night got me, cause well, how do you escape that? You have to sleep at some point, and leaving all the lights on won't help.

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	esorlehcar 2009-11-12 01:30 am UTC (link)
	I enjoyed it, but I didn't actually find it scary (and usually I'm a huge horror wuss). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	krazycat 2009-11-14 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Oh, phew. I'm also a huge horror wuss and been debating with myself if I should go or not. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	esorlehcar 2009-11-14 07:44 am UTC (link)
	Well, my friend, who is usually less of a horror wuss than I am, was TERRIFIED, so... make of that what you will. I think it was the lack of music, honestly... I'm so keyed into creepy music. The Kids in the Hall pickle sketch scares me, for god's sake. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	keleri 2009-11-12 03:39 am UTC (link)
	I heard that it's much more scary in a theater if everyone else in the theater is acting scared; you can kind of get into it, that way. But yeah, if you think about it too hard it breaks down. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	senor_pinata 2009-11-12 04:36 am UTC (link)
	Depends. If you're the type who puts yourself into it, like "if this was me..."? You'll wet your pants and probably think it's great. If you view it as complete fiction the whole time, probably not. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lied_ohne_worte 2009-11-13 02:18 pm UTC (link)
	For some reason, the female character gave me strong vibes of that lonelygirl on youtube. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nanthimus 2009-11-11 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	Nope, I stayed until the very end and there really wasn't anything on after it went black. (Reply to this)

	yoritomo_reiko 2009-11-11 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	According to IMDB, there's no closing credits. (Reply to this)

	edgyspice 2009-11-12 01:41 am UTC (link)
	I can't help but take the opportunity to pimp this parody video: (Full disclosure: I'm in it.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	edgyspice 2009-11-12 01:41 am UTC (link)
	herp derp a link would help. click here (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ru_debega 2009-11-12 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	My boyfriend and I cackled our way through that whole thing. You guys have got Katie's whining and Micah's pseudo-macho posturing downpat. Awesome. (Also, the blood/chocolate thing was brilliant.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fuzzybluelogic 2009-11-14 01:28 am UTC (link)
	I liked it, but as someone above said, horror is very personal. I was cheering on the big bad to do something horrible to the dude. Anyone who's that dumb and that much of a jerkface needs to get eaten and/or set on fire (Reply to this)