brandonlewissmu

Cognetti decided to switch from found footage to, in his own words, "real" filmmaking. That's a slap in the face to the genre and gave me a bad taste in my mouth. Still, I'm a huge HH fan so I obviously had to see what he'd come up with. My expectations were low but this was just a disaster. It wasn't remotely scary. The story promised to answer some questions, and it did..it just gave boring and nonsensical ones. My girlfriend had no idea what was going on, and said it was one of the least scary movies I've dragged to her to. I knew what was going on, and just found it to be a mess. It's a truly terrible way to end a great franchise, and it's all due to Cognetti's arrogance. He aban what got him here in the first place, and the reviews speak for themselves (the real reviews..not the 8-10's that are clearly fake). If you see a great review, check the user's review history. If this is the only movie they've ever reviewed, it's clearly someone who has something to gain. There's a lot of that on this website, unfortunately. This film is getting roasted on Reddit, Rotten, and YouTube. Don't be fooled. To Cognetti, I'm sure you're reading these reviews. Do the right thing and finish this franchise with a worthy ending. Go back to the basics and what got you here. You created a great franchise, but you were in way over your head here.

The Blackwell series has been really good, for the most part. While I enjoyed the paranormal aspects of previous, I far prefer the new, grounded in "reality" approach. The shift away from the paranormal was needed. It had run its course. Having an actual killer is genuinely creepy, far more so than flipped tables, open cabinets, and ghosts banging on doors.

The only problem I have is that there's never a sense that Turner is in actual danger. He said so himself. The guy doesn't want to hurt him. It would add to the scares if the killer actually DID want to harm Turner. I'd like to see Turner get sick of being timid and tell this guy enough is enough. Bring it on.

I'm invested again. Hopefully 9 will come sooner than 8 did. Sitting on another year long "to be continued" would be a bummer.

Total embarrassment to Found Footage horror.

You get an hour of the most boring and monotonous story you can imagine followed by maybe the most nonsensical trash I've ever seen. There's no rhyme or reason. No coherent storyline. Why is this happening? Better yet, what is happening? I have no idea.

Loud noises. They love the loud noises.

Random flashes of..stuff.

No idea what is happening.

Lots of blood from an attack by..?? No idea.

Main character walks around being weird.

Still no idea what is happening.

Lots of lights, weird imagery, and fast shaky shots of..no idea.

More loud noises Main character gets even weirder.

The end.

I have no idea what happened and I don't even care. This was like an art-house attempt at being weird for the sake of being weird. The only thing that stands out about this movie is the audio. Without that, you might have the most pointless found footage film of all time. You probably still do.

PS. Bloody Disgusting and primarily Brad, really lose a ton of credibility for hyping this movie up. I didn't realize they had money in it. Also, check the reviews with the high scores and you'll see the users just joined and this is the only movie they've ever reviewed.