He's Watching

A lot of hate for this title from the FF community. On one hand it's understandable because He's Watching is NOT really a Found Footage movie. But on the other hand, it's something much weirder and arguably even better.

The idea behind this movie is that it starts out as a pretty standard found footage flick, but sort of snowballs into (basically) a demon using found footage and electronic recording to communicate and disrupt the lives of two teenage children. If you've seen Benson and Moorehead's "The Endless," this is a very similar concept of a monster creating found media to communicate, just taking it into the natural next stage of presentation.

The only real issue that I had with this movie is the angle of the pandemic. As I understand it, this movie was shot during COVID-19 lockdowns, and in the film the two main children are home alone because of a mysterious virus that targets adults and has left their parents hospitalized. Chalk it up to pandemic fatigue, but I didn't need this movie to be stapled to a real-life event. It just came across as distracting.

But this is one of those FF movies that is more about the feeling of FF than the logical machinations to justify FF. As much as I like FF movies that have a compelling reason to keep the camera rolling, when filmmakers go in the COMPLETE opposite direction I think it's just as exciting. Give this one a shot!

The acting was mostly good. Some freaky parts. Kind of like a weird nightmare that you would have after being sick. Good attempt but never gave us anything worth holding onto. Didn't understood the ending. They could have done so much more to make a cool ending to at least let us have a resolution that everyone could understand. That would have made the wait worth it but unfortunately they didn't do that. I think both of the young actors can definitely be in more movies. They are really good. After all they carried an hour and a half movie. Overall I would say to skip this. Not really worth the time.

If Blair Witch and David Lynch had a baby....sort of. Lots of great filmmaking techniques here. The story is a bit confusing, and there are unanswered questions, but worth watching for the style alone.

I would really very much like to speak to the filmmaker. I'm just very curious as to what his interpretation of his own film is. Because from opening credits to closing credits we thought we knew what he was trying to say. But along the way got convoluted, and lost.

I admire anyone who has the temerity to complete an artistic endeavor. But there was too many paranormal tropes used along the way that really made things hazy. It felt like found footage, but there was a lot of omniscient camera work. There was demons and a pandemic. It tried too hard I guess.

This film was not so bad that it was worth watching. But it was definitely not good enough to have watched the whole thing. But we did watch the whole thing, and are still very confused. I don't know if it's an experience with writing, or a budgetary thing But "He's watching" and I wished I hadn't.

The movie had its share of creepiness and started out interestingly enough, but then it strolled out into left field and made no sense. Hard to follow. Random scenes and images, then they attempt to explain in the end but still leave you very confused at the roll of the credits. Seems like it tries to be too artsy-fartsy at times. I just like a good horror story! This one tries to hard to be artistic, definitely like its coffeehouse horror. I want my $7 back!!