This is one of those movies that Amazon Prime has recommended to me a bunch of times, because they know my viewing history and how much I enjoy watching found footage movies and horror movies, so I've been excited to check out this movie for months. I'm hoping it's as much fun as it sounds.
The movie is about a young man and his brother whose lives start to change when their grandmother dies and they inherit a creepy painting. The grandma was convinced the painting was haunted but they don't really believe that. Her grandson is the one filming the movie and telling his family's story, how the painting affected them, and his video serves to show what happens when he goes to the grandma's house to clear out her belongings after her death.
People in these movies never want to believe that ghosts and hsuntings are real, even after truckloads of creepy things happen. Here, they're not in the house ten minutes before scary stuff starts happening, and still they're like "duh, what made that noise? Let's go into the dark, terrifying attic to investigate." The painting is genuinely spooky, though, and no way would I be hanging that thing in my house. Seriously dude. One of the brothers is more skeptical than the other, but they both notice strange things happening (a radio keeps turning on by itself) so they finally install cameras hoping to catch footage of something.
One problem with movies like this is that they have lots of long scenes where nothing happens, in order to set us up for a finale where something does happen, and it's shocking because of the uneventful footage that came before. Unfortunately, the scenes where nothing happens can get really boring. The acting isn't always the greatest either, and some of the dialog is really clunky, which doesn't help matters.
then when you've convinced yourself that the movie is bad because it's boring to watch nothing happen for an hour, the movie ratchets up the tension and stuff starts happening, but the characters do some things that are so stupid that you kinda wish you could go back to a simpler time when nothing was happening and you thought the lack of plot was why the movie was bad. Movies like this aren't THAT hard to make, so it gets on my nerves when one is bad, because all you need is halfway decent line delivery in between some scary scenes with light and darkness playing tricks with our minds and making us think we're seeing more than we actually do see.
It's indeed so simple to make the movie work that there's almost no excuse for this type of movie to be bad. There are so many scenes that take place when characters are inexplicably gathered in front of a camera to have stilted, awkward conversations to try and pad the plot, and it makes no sense for them to be filming these conversations, plus the dialog is so clunky that I wanted to throw a brick at the screen. Plus then the actors that haven't been putting in great performances up to this point decide to try acting in earnest, and it just comes off as silly and annoying. Plus it doesn't know when to end. You're supposed to have something jump out and go "ooga-booga" and then the movie is supposed to end, not go on for 20 more minutes of footage thst is so dark it can't be shocking or even gory, it's just boring and it reminds you of other, better found footage movies, and you wish you were watching those instead. That's my advice, skip this movie and watch something better.
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