So I went to see this movie with a friend last night. Since there was an UBER LONG line outside, we arrived about five minutes in to the movie. Once we were sat down, we got the impression that we really didn't miss anything. So on with the movie.
A general synopsis: The film begins with a screen capture? Is that the word? Of a teenage girl's laptop. She browses the internet. Watches a video of an old friend's suicide. You know. Usual stuff. She then gets a Skype call from her boyfriend and they get cyber-frisky. They are joined by 3 of their friends and an unknown profile. This is where it gets interesting. Another of their friends is added to the chat and from their it's the horror movie you were promised. People die. Blah blah blah.
Anyway, in my opinion the beginning was pretty boring. But while it was boring it felt very real. All of the kids in the chat sounded like real teenagers having a real conversation. There was no fantastic dialogue but that made it better. Teenagers talking like teenagers. I didn't feel like it was poor writing at all. It was informed writing.
When the movie reached about the halfway mark I found myself hiding behind my bangs. It was genuinely scary. At least for a wuss like me. But while it was scary it was also kind of cheap. The whole movie felt like a compilation of cheap jump scares and a whole lot of building suspense.
Spoiler!
Everybody dies. Shocker. I know.
The death of every character was relieving as I had no desire for any of them to survive this film. The characters were ALL douche bags. I hated every one of them. They all seemed like lying, backstabbing friends that were fake as fuck. And it's implied that Laura (the ghost) was the same when she was alive. Even if the characters were real, it didn't make them likable.
The deaths themselves were somewhat creative. All of them, death by suicide. Suicide by possession.One of them stuck his hand in a blender, as seen in the trailer, and then slit his throat with it. Another stuck a curling rod in her own mouth.
While it was entertaining, I enjoyed it, a lot. And it was scary, I was hiding, a lot. and it sent quite a good message, cyberbullying=bad. It wasn't the best film of the year, and certainly not my new favourite horror movie (Scream 4 always). All in all it's a good time, entertaining, and all that jazz. But it's not AMAAAAZING.
Scary. Entertaining. But Not Fantastic.
So I went to see this movie with a friend last night. Since there was an UBER LONG line outside, we arrived about five minutes in to the movie. Once we were sat down, we got the impression that we really didn't miss anything. So on with the movie.
A general synopsis: The film begins with a screen capture? Is that the word? Of a teenage girl's laptop. She browses the internet. Watches a video of an old friend's suicide. You know. Usual stuff. She then gets a Skype call from her boyfriend and they get cyber-frisky. They are joined by 3 of their friends and an unknown profile. This is where it gets interesting. Another of their friends is added to the chat and from their it's the horror movie you were promised. People die. Blah blah blah.
Anyway, in my opinion the beginning was pretty boring. But while it was boring it felt very real. All of the kids in the chat sounded like real teenagers having a real conversation. There was no fantastic dialogue but that made it better. Teenagers talking like teenagers. I didn't feel like it was poor writing at all. It was informed writing.
When the movie reached about the halfway mark I found myself hiding behind my bangs. It was genuinely scary. At least for a wuss like me. But while it was scary it was also kind of cheap. The whole movie felt like a compilation of cheap jump scares and a whole lot of building suspense.
Spoiler!
Everybody dies. Shocker. I know. The death of every character was relieving as I had no desire for any of them to survive this film. The characters were ALL douche bags. I hated every one of them. They all seemed like lying, backstabbing friends that were fake as fuck. And it's implied that Laura (the ghost) was the same when she was alive. Even if the characters were real, it didn't make them likable.The deaths themselves were somewhat creative. All of them, death by suicide. Suicide by possession.One of them stuck his hand in a blender, as seen in the trailer, and then slit his throat with it. Another stuck a curling rod in her own mouth.
While it was entertaining, I enjoyed it, a lot. And it was scary, I was hiding, a lot. and it sent quite a good message, cyberbullying=bad. It wasn't the best film of the year, and certainly not my new favourite horror movie (Scream 4 always). All in all it's a good time, entertaining, and all that jazz. But it's not AMAAAAZING.