It’s a never ending game of chicanery being perpetrated by Micah and the demon in trying to outdo one another. The movie had 2-3 scary parts. BUT THAT’S IT!

No movie can claim to be “one of the scariest movies of all time” when they defy logic and insult the audience’s intelligence. All the stereotypes the average horror movie is accused of harbouring are on full display in this movie.

Guy suddenly wanting to explore an unnatural/demonic entity against his better judgment – Check

Exploring the interiors of the secluded portions of your own house WITH THE LIGHTS TURNED OFF – Check

Refusal to move out despite being scared for like 20 nights in a row or something (?)- Check

Other anomalies from the movie

*The night Katie wakes up and walks down to the porch and sits on the swing. Micah finds her outside sitting in freezing weather with just the nightwear on. He brings her back to the room and she goes to sleep.*

Issues:

Next day when she sees the video she is only mildly concerned that she was obviously possessed for a couple of hours. (Oh no big deal I guess)She says that she didn’t remember any of it and only remembers standing at the entrance of her door with Micah going hysterical.

The problems with this part?

Firstly, she should have screamed the night before when she was brought back into the room. Why? Well, if you wake up in the middle of the night standing at your door entrance in a house where the presence of a demon has been successfully detected, and on top of it you have your boyfriend screaming at you… I don’t know about you, but any sane person would be freaked out.

Another thing wrong with this part. The girl is possessed for a couple of hours during this night. For all purposes, the demon has achieved its objective (since that’s what it does in the end and the fact that the movie didn’t end right here shows that he had a dick measuring contest with Micah all along) and YET, in this scene the demon leaves her after that only to (DO NOT READ THIS – SPOILER) inhabit her again and kill Micah.

Other retarded things with the movie:

RIGHT after they find the demon’s footprints, they are calmly searching through the paraphernalia of random shit in their house when they know that the DEMON is in the other room.

They NEVER call the cops. Not even when they are assaulted. They don’t approach them with the video tape. (And for those who say that screening the video tape would have made the demon more angry, what do you think the demon’s state of mind was all this while?)

They never call their friends to stay with them (any sane person would do that as well and invite a lot of his/her friends to stay the night over). And they don’t seem to have more than 1 friend. They also don’t seem to counsel any close friends/relatives as one would do when confronted with paranormal crap of this type. Not even till the end when they are assaulted do they bother to contact anyone else.

Lastly, while not a criticism, one of the funny things about the movie was the demon’s giant ass feet. Was it in the WNBA or something?

This movie only got the reception it did because people wanted to see how a movie made on a budget of 15k can gross even couple of millions and be green-lighted by a veteran like Spielberg. Apparently, he got locked in his room right after he watched this movie. Hence the release on the big screen.

I’d say that even after all this, one should watch the movie, if only to enjoy the parodies made afterwards.

Look. It’s not hard to scare someone. You can be a in a dark room and have someone jump you without warning. That’s scary? No. What’s the point? This movie had GENERALLY a good plot which it screwed by comitting the mistakes I have listed above. Leaving the camera in the same position and foreshadowing something bad by turning up the bass and then have random things like doors being slammed is a shock tactic. Genuinely scary?GTFOH