Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story
A small town news team discovers a box of video tapes where a faceless figure dressed in a dark suit, haunts and torments a family...slowly driving them insane. Soon after, they realize that the "Operator" has begun to stalk them as well.
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- Cast:
- Christopher Marquette , Alexandra Breckenridge , Jake McDorman , Doug Jones , Michael Bunin , Alexandra Holden , Morgan Bastin
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Very best movie i ever watch
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Apparently "Marble Hornets" the long-feature film is based on a series that can only be seen on You Tube. Personally I didn't know this series existed No wait, let me rephrase that, personally I didn't even know there existed series that can only be seen on You Tube! Anyways, the series revolves on a fictional character referred to as Slender Man – although for legal reasons here re-baptized into 'The Operator' – who is a type of boogeyman-for-the-cyber-generation and appears in sinister internet videos rather than underneath your bed. The bad news, however, is that "Marble Hornets" is also one of those dreadful Found-Footage horror movies, which means that the hand-held camera-work is horrendous (and, no, it's not adding any atmosphere or suspense), the characters are underdeveloped and over- the-top hysterical most of the time and that the film ends suddenly and abrupt without any type of proper explanation. Sara and Milo are a not-so professional duo of news reporters, sharing a brief but uncomfortably awkward love history, are following around a team of evictors for a human-interest documentary. They enter a rather nice and well-decorated middle-class family house where the residents cleared rushed out of unforeseen and in a hurry. They stumble upon a pile of family videos and discover that the father became gradually paranoid – and righteously so – because he always spotted a sinister figure observing his family from a distance. This perpetrator can only be seen through the lens of a camera and pretty soon he's also stalking Sara, Milo and their obnoxious supervisor Charlie. If you disregard the connection with the Internet series, "Marble Hornets: The Operator" is an incredibly mundane and forgettable movie. The only remotely interesting added value in the script is the unhealthy relationship between the lead protagonists. For example, Sara and Charlie learn about the existence of The Operator when they stumble upon Milo's private videos in which he's stalking Sara. Both the appearance and the background story of The Operator aren't very interesting or scary, and he honestly doesn't do a whole lot apart from discretely standing in the background. If there ever was a movie that is suitable for Found-Footage fanatics only, it must be this one.
*SPOILERS AHEAD!!* Small ones, not that important but smallSo I'll first say I thought this was going to be the worst piece of poop called a movie in the history of movies... And I was wrong! This has great actors who look panicked when they see him in the cameras, sad when a dog dies, and the best screams when Slendy opened a door with so much force that it could break a wall. The setting perfectly sets the mood like in the actual marble hornets production (I've watched the Marble Hornets Entries twice). You knew exactly where they were and what they were doing.I don't understand why people hate it. Yes the idea of not seeing him with the bare eye is not on the same legend, but they only did that so people could understand why they needed the cameras. It's just they way of making this more suspenseful.I also don't understand why people can't find a plot to this. I could make a whole summary of the movie in 1 single paragraph.The final thing I don't understand is why do people not like the idea of the camera isn't a 3rd person POV, but a 1st person camera.In conclusion, this movie was a masterpiece that deserves to be told so.
The title of the review speaks for itself.At this point the Found Film Footage genre is getting tired and old, only because these writers and directors aren't giving us anything we haven't seen already. They think that with the same scares, same annoying actors and same shaky camera with a whole new entity or monster will be a good idea. Wrong.There was nothing interesting about this film, except they thought it was a good idea. The special effects seem cheesy, but something tells me that's what they were going for, but it didn't work even if that were the case. Once again the characters were unlikable and that seems to be a recurring theme since The Blair Witch Project.You would think that a movie based upon the most popular creepypasta, Slenderman, would be a good thing. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.The film seems it would be good to those of a younger age, which this film is not targeted with, with it's R rating. The film could have easily been a PG-13. It might be good for a watch if your high, but I wouldn't recommend it regardless.
So I kinda followed the marble hornets story when it was "infamous" on YouTube so I was very excited to see that they made a movie based on it. But unfortunately, this movie did not scare me at all - that being said, however, I don't mean to say that this movie is bad. It was actually very entertaining. The story was well written and the characters were engaging, but I really wish I was scared. Maybe I missed the mark or something. They definitely relied a lot on the atmosphere, but I just wasn't very scared? And I love atmospheric horror movies... I even turned off all the lights to watch it.I wonder if the makers of this movie saw "Noroi" (a Japanese horror movie) because I could see a lot of similarities in the dynamics and plot. Noroi is my #1 favorite horror movie. This almost seems like an American version/retelling of Noroi. From the news crew to the..... I'll stop here (don't want to spoil anything). Noroi chilled me to the bone where this movie failed to cause one goosebump.It's a good movie. Good actors. Good writing. Just not very scary.