21 Days

This is a little bit of the paranormal activity MARKED ONES film as well as that movie itself and GRAVE ENCOUNTERS. I gave the filmmaker credit for creating a backstory for the film so that it is a complete story instead of some jump scares and then the camera drops.

I know many filmmakers make their start in the found footage genre since it's relatively cheap to film in. So, if you're going to do a FF, then make the effort to make it different. In this case, the film succeeds. Locked in a haunted house for 21 days with cameras everywhere, how does an object move from the barn to the house? Creepy...but ultimately, why? Just the spirits/demons playing tricks and if so, on us or the characters? Nothing is really made of this event other than "WTF?" If it kept occurring, with more dangerous items being transported, it would have added a nice twist. Other than that, we get the doors closing, furniture jumping about, etc. All good stuff, always creepy, but we've seen it before.

The problem with ALL found footage is the last ten minutes. People screaming and cross talking over themselves. It's always a mess and this is no different. The good this is there is a coda that explains a bit more so your last image isn't a dropped camera.

There are some terrific ideas here that I wish had been explored more--they were different and could have taken the film in a different direction. But I liked it and enjoyed my time with it!

Idiots (aka Actors with a bad script) want to find out why everyone is moving out of a haunted house before the 21st day after moving in. They decide to locked themselves in and record everything and become Ghost Hunters. From there it tries to be "Paranormal Activity" but suckier. Pass on it.

Found footage film of yet another crew of people investigating a reported haunted house. The twist here is that no one has ever stayed in this house for 21 days. The explanation for this: it takes 21 day for the soul to be possessed. (This isn't a spoiler as it is explained early in the film.) Thus starts the expedition of being sealed in the house for 21 days. Wow! and what a 21 days it was. Spotty depiction of the 21 days as they randomly jump days. Not even typical scares as this film tried to create jump scares without any jumps. Ho hum. I don't really understand why this was even attempted to be made into a film as the concept wasn't a big departure and they did so very little with it. You can do much better than this film.

This is just another of these kind of a movies. It's pretty well made not counting the sound balancing that was done the worst way. The sound effects are super extra loud in the start and quieter in the end - which makes no sense and maximises the bother. Acting was 2/3 ok, the girl was just annoying. Why are you shouting and screaming "What was that" or "What is happening" if you deliberately go into a haunted house to see ghost. What do you think it is you dumb idiot. Just completely stupid and unneccessary.

All in all it's a watchable movie that copies other movies. It was a decent watch although the ending was quite annoying.

The title said it all. The lead was obnoxious, the supporting cast was terrible, it followed every possible cliche, the dialogue was the hottest of garbages, and 5 year old special needs kid could have written a more coherent storyline having a molly seizure. Instead of watching this movie, just go kneel in front of the nearest toilet and bash your head in between the rim and the seat for 90 minutes.