Sorry, this movie sucks

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The movie spends a ton of time with the police, processing the crime scene. It really kills the horror when the haunted house is full of cops. Without spoiling it, the twist seemed to be added last minute and doesn't work with the rest of the film. To me, it appeared the writer wanted a twist ending, but didn't know how to do it right, and it just comes off as a jumbled mess.

Some endings are or rather can be a deal breaker. It seems that this movie has this issue. I only read one comment from a person who seemed to actually like the movie, but only gave it a 5/10 because of the ending. Is it that bad then? I would argue not, quite the opposite, I'd say it does accelerate what we saw before this happening. I'd also argue that it is in the same vain as the rest of it.But I can understand that some people feel cheated or some think it is too on the nose. Depending on your take and how you feel about horror movies, how many you've watched, this will make up your mind about certain things. Things you may see coming and others that you will just think are crazy (and not in a good sense). But we do have a very stellar cast and a very solid story. And it's all told in a good fashion. It's tense, there are shock moments and it keeps going ... until that make or break moment ... does it work for you? That's a tough question to answer ... still doesn't change anything about the quality in the writing in this ...

This is exactly the kind of film where most of the time they really don't pull it off very well. There are literally a MILLION ways to screw up a movie like this (and they usually do...) But with this film, I can say quite honestly, especially towards the end, that I was really caught up in it and found it very gripping and entertaining.I don't know WHAT the hell is up with the reviews here for this movie being wildly all over the place, from gushing '10's to 1 star 'This is typical crap found footage stuff' Well, in my lowly and wretched opinion, I truly felt that this film was very good. I think what really made this movie is how effective the ending was. To me, the strongest element of this film was the editing and the excellent way they went back and forth between when the group was in the house and during the police investigation right afterward. It nicely built up a very real tension and suspense as the story was entering it's final act.Seriously, this kind of film USUALLY is a low budget affair that has really poor acting and isn't put together very well. But, this one, although starting off rather slowly and in a somewhat average way, builds to what I feel is a very strong and effective finish. Just before watching this movie, I tried to watch another Supernatural Thriller called 'A HAUNTING AT SILVER FALLS' (2013) and was it ever BAD! Amateur all the way. Many usually are. This one was quite a bit better than most others of it's type. The acting wasn't anything stellar, but it was solid and THANKFULLY not overdone and mind-numbingly STUPID like it usually is with films like this.And, NO... this is most definitely NOT just another boring 'Found Footage' film. I don't even like most of those and I am NOT a fan of them per se. YES, there are BRIEF elements where the footage is shown concerning some of the things that happened while the group was in the house, but OVERALL it plays like a straight forward Supernatural Thriller. And, although James Wan did not direct this film, I think that you could definitely feel his fingerprints all over it. Especially in the 3rd act of the movie. Not giving anything away of course, but the way the momentum builds towards the end while the final Mystery is being revealed was somewhat similar to the way 'DEAD SILENCE' was done. In my opinion, very dramatic and effective.With Supernatural Thrillers particularly, I feel that it is EXTREMELY vital to put them together in such a way where they somehow suspend your disbelief and REALLY put you right there in the middle of what is happening. And, in order to do that, you REALLY have to know what you are doing to be able to craft the story in a way that will actually be effective. This one is not amazingly groundbreaking or anything, but if you do like these types of Supernatural Thrillers (it seems like there are THOUSANDS of them out there!) this movie is better than most because it is put together in a way that makes it more entertaining and effective than most...

Come on now. Personally I've struggled to find ANY found footage movie interesting but I do understand some like them & I admit i have reluctantly admitted to liking a couple of special additions to the genre (not the popular ones tho). But the whole thing is getting out of hand now. Just having a bunch of out of focus, badly lit, jerky video snippets of doors slamming, staircases, torch lights & screaming faces does not make for a great movie. It's time directors of horror flicks stopped cheating viewers with this cheap gimmick. I really wanted to like this movie but I gave up half way through. I already knew from the start that most of them got killed coz in addition to tedious found footage camera work we get even more tedious "earlier that day" footage after all the bodies are discovered at the beginning of the movie - so there goes the suspense/intrigue/anticipation. THe only mystery left is who did it and is the final person still alive but since you get no real sense of who they are or why you should care anyway you end up well.... not caring. So the movie has nothing about it that drew me in or made me want to spend any more time getting through to the end. It was a chore so I stopped watching. If this sounds like how you like to spend your time tho, by all means have at it.