One of my all time favorites.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

You might want to skip the first few minutes of the film as it is a plot spoiler the reoccurs at about an hour and twenty minutes. The film is almost all found footage, as a crew films the show "Home Hunters Global" hosted by Kate Banks (Carrie Genzel). The crew is in a remote village of Moldova, a Romanian culture. They have returned to film the house of Becky Westlake (Brigid Brannagh) who bought the "worst house in Moldova." Upon their return they find the house if magnificently restored as they stay in a nearby village being ugly Americans with their cameras. There is a story about a local witch being burned at stake about 100 years ago. There appears to be something significant about frogs too.The acting wasn't solid. There was an attempt at humor, more towards the beginning, but there was nothing to indicate the film was a spoof. Alex (Kris Lemche) provided us with a few funny lines while everyone else was his straight man. The film takes over 50 minutes to get going, which maybe why the editors opted to splice a plot spoiler in the beginning. Mia Faith provides us with minor eye candy.Guide: F-word. Brief sex. No nudity.Note to self: Never yell "witch" in a crowded bar of Romanians.

The movie starts as most shaky cam movies and proceeds along the same lines. Unlike most of the others, however, as it proceeded, it had that original "Blair Witch" feeling. I was really starting to dig it until the last 10-15 minutes. That's when everything this otherwise smart and entertaining movie was leading up to fell apart. It's almost like they had a great writer and director for most of the movie and replaced them with a twelve-year old at the end. As a result, the investment made in sitting through this didn't pay off.An earlier reviewer said that the people giving this a poor rating didn't get it. Isn't it funny how there is always one egghead that has to defend a bad movie by saying the majority of people who watched it didn't get it. The reviewer went on to say that the movie was supposed to be a campy spoof about American reality shows. He couldn't be more wrong. In fact, the movie doesn't get campy (or in my mind "stupid") until the end. Up to that point, the movie was neither a spoof or campy - it was simply a shaky cam horror movie.BTW, I'd like to inform that reviewer that using the worst cartoon-like CG effects at the end does not a campy movie make.

The problem with this movie is that there was a whole lot of nothing going on. In trying to make it look real, it went on and on and on with nothing happening. Just a bunch of talking heads.By the end it does start getting a little spooky though. That's good....Some decent acting and some really, really bad acting which pulled me out of being able to enjoy the film. It is one of those movies that is supposed to be real, but it was the bad acting that kept ejecting me from being able to like the movie.And I think it must have been the directing. Because some of the actors really are good, but not in this. And a big reveal scene involving Afghanistan falls flat on its face, which was sad. It should have been better.Decent Acting: Mia Faith: Charming: I could believe she was a real person and not an actress. Brigid Brannagh: She almost convinced me she was a real person and not an actress. Dimitri Diatchenko: Funny and charming. I enjoyed him quite a bit.Truly horrible acting—Kindergarten Thanksgiving Plays have better acting: Carrie Genzel: Terrible! Stunned she was picked for this film. Kris Lemche: Truly some of the worst acting I've ever seen, except for Carrie Genzel. So bad. These two pretty much made this movie almost unwatchable.Then it finally hit me. This was a dark comedy. And when I realized that I decided this wasn't a total waste after all. If you have an hour and a half, and can sift through horrible acting, you may like this movie.

I created an account just to save some of you the time. This movie is without a doubt being highly rated by its creators to get views. 3/10. The story is weaker than Lou Gehrig's grip on gavel, and the "twist," if you can even call it that, is so anticlimactic, and the entire premise is so poorly conceived that it almost qualifies as some av ant-grade, meta-parody– only worse. Much much worse. The only redeeming quality of this horrible film were some performances that these poor actors were able to muster up amid st the cringe-worthy script. Nothing funny. Nothing clever. Nothing worth watching. Move on. Or rather, movie on.