It Watches

This was such a waste of my time that it made me wish I had a time machine that would enable me to go back 1 hour and twenty minutes to get that part of my life back. The premise of this movie was so promising; a man with no memory house sitting in a creepy home in the Hollywood Hills. But that's pretty much where the accolades must end. From that point on its pretty much downhill. The acting was horrible, the camerawork was shoddy, the sound sucked, and the script went completely off the rails. The plot twist was barely a twist, it wasn't even a slight turn. Save your time and energy for something else.

Totally stupid and waste of time. I bet you have not seen any film more stupid than this one

This film is about a man who, after just recently having an accident that has left him with a foggy memory, choses to help out a friend by house sitting. The house is a bit creepy and after smoking some strong weed and downing some alcohol the house transitions from creepy to scary. What is going on in this house?

Being a horror fan can make a viewer become jaded. We are constantly looking for fresh material but all too often you end up seeing the same story lines with just the locations, actors and maybe some of the circumstances being changed. It really can turn you into a harsh critic and I think this is some of what is happening with this film. It is low budget and it's been done before.

I didn't think it was all that bad. Like I said, it is low budget but I didn't think that the quality, while lacking, was awful. The actors had both good and bad moments and I thought the story was interesting. I want to give credit where credit is due and I think this one deserves a little more respect that it is getting.

The cinematographic choices in this movie are odd. It is shot in a found footage style, but it feels like a film student tooling around with a camera. The film starts off with the camera outside of a car, pointed at the characters but you can't see them because of the sun glaring of the windshield. Weird.

Andre is tasked with house sitting a stranger's house and is told to document it with his hand-held camera to see if anything comes back to him because he has amnesia. This house is said to be creepy by the character and his friend but it just seems like any single dude's house complete with black leather couch and black entertainment set. It has mannequins covered in drop cloth and masks. Sort of unsettling, sure.

What ensues is a drag of the audience's patience until a weird neighbor shows up. This is the only time the whole movie anything exciting happens, the rest is a jumble of nonsense. There's a twist but it isn't a clever I didn't see that coming sort of twist. It almost seems like the ending got changed last minute and they didn't want to reshoot scenes to make things make sense.

There's a lot of drugs and drinking in this film, not a big deal to me but it would've been interesting to lean into how being intoxicated altered Andre's perception of things happening to him. He seems pretty sober as things are going on, and high for a short time. We could've seen him watching things on the camera and freaking out while high.

This could have been a really good film if they had employed qualified actors. Low budget or not there no excuse for this level of crapness. But the story was sound and that saddens me more that it could have been great.