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Honestly, the movie wasn't bad. I didn't mind it. But the acting took me out of it. The acting was just bad, but it was really the only bad part of the movie. The rest wasn't terrible. I'd recommend this to anyone who doesn't mind amateurish acting.

This is clearly a movie made by someone learning the film industry - as it is not polished like what you would see in a movie theater on the big screen.

However, I could have gotten over the B-filmmaking if the acting and the storyline was better. The 2 main characters were decent, but the supporting characters were really rough in terms of acting abilities. You were very aware that the acting was forced and not natural.

This can be seen in some of the dialog, as the conversations don't feel like anything people would really say in real life - it was very clear that these conversations were used as a means to inform the viewer of specific information. This can be seen in the first interaction with the landlord (whose acting was god awful - sorry). Just really unnatural dialog in several places.

But like I said, this is a good first effort for someone likely going through or just out of film school. However, it's not scary in the least. At most I would describe it as a "thriller" or "suspense." Don't go into this movie expecting to be scared.

A decent first hour spoiled by an absolute sh@&show of a third act that features actors that totally forget how to act and hilarious special effects. It generates laughs while trying for chills.

Only partially found footage, it goes off the rails in terms of quality when it stops being found footage, I think this was a mistake. The acting was only okay to begin with, and when things should be ramped up emotionally, the poor acting is only exposed more. However, the acting is still better than "Witchtrap", which is my bar for bad acting. I found it interesting and suspenseful and I wanted to know how it would end, but due to the amateurish third act, there is no way I can recommend this to most people. Yes, obviously inspired by paranormal activity, but not a rip-off in my opinion, it goes in quite a different direction.

In fact, it is very obviously a cautionary tale, and it becomes pretty obvious the creators at least have some idea about the sham that the last 2yrs were in regards to the virus that starts with a C and ends with a 9. Nice to see filmmakers who actually know what is going on, so this film becomes a bit heavy handed sadly, but I see where they were trying to go and the allegory, I just don't think they had the skills to really make it what it should have been, and because of this, I can only give a soft recommendation to those who enjoy no-budget films that try to do something different and can overlook the some of the poor acting and bad lighting in the last 3rd.

Coming out in 2021 and being set in 2019, the comparisons with COVID are inevitable and pretty obvious in many places. At first it seems prescient how many aspects of the pandemic were reflected here, including the constant insistence by the only sane man that "This is not over" while everyone else around him is just obnoxiously blowing him off and trying to go back to normal, including a very over the top performance by the actor portrating the head of the CDC, in one interview basically suggesting this LV pandemic is going to be the end of "western civilization" then in the very next interview almost giddily blowing off any concerns about it, saying a vaccine isn't needed, and giving the most ridiculously cartoonishly evil grin while saying the best course of action against the virus is to intentionally expose yourself to it.

But the further you get into this movie, the more this starts to seem like a case of accidentally getting stuff right while in the course of telling a pretty dumb story that is let down not just by its obviously bad acting, but by it's immature writing.

The story is of a couple who are recording themselves (or rather just the wife) due to her sleepwalking. Almost immediately it's incredibly suspicious that it's not just normal sleepwalking and the husband slowly starts to dig deeper into it.

I was initially impressed with what I thought was basically an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-type story with a COVID setup, marred only by the obviously bad acting all around. If this was the first time for everyone involved, this would've been fairly simple to overlook.

But the further along it goes, the more it starts to show that this isn't a case of just bad acting, but really bad writing. A whole lot of the dialogue and exposition is written the way a child would write about the real world, without a full understanding of how things work, or the complexities of people's emotions and how they react to traumatic events or confrontations. It does a huge disservice to what could have been a promising enough story.