The Devil Complex

I COULD go on and on talking about what the director seems to have intended, but ....... why?! What I WILL say is this: As a film ... it tried!!! I .... umm .... I liked it, it was better than REwatching old 'Ancient Aliens' reruns for the 3rd time, but not by a whole lot!

Follows the typical format of a found footage film, and spends too much time not doing anything that adds to the plot. The very few events that do happen strike me as random and unexplained. I felt like I was walking in circles in a forest myself.

The Blair Witch Project (1999) has a lot to answer for. Ever since its release we've been bombarded with found footage movies because of the seeming popularity and because they're insanely cheap to produce.

This British made one is set in Romania and revolves around a documentary film crew investigating the infamous Hoia-Baciu Forest. For those unfamiliar this is a forest within Transylvania that is well known for it's stories of ghosts, demons and ufos.

The first 3/4 of the movie is character establishment, when something finally happens it still doesn't. Truth be told this is less actual content or activity than Blair Witch, than Pararnomal Activity. By that I mean literally nothing happens.

It claims this is based on true events, yet again a lie. The forest is well known for stories, but no basis or evidence to support any of them.

One thing I found baffling is that the forest is well known for its central circle and distinct tree growth in some areas. They don't show any of this, why go all the way there and not film the two most impressive things within the forest? Forest, snow and some very unlikable characters. That's your lot.

The Good:

Fantastic setting

Based on something real and fairly interesting

The Bad:

Weird writing decisions

Nothing happens

I love found footage movies, I've watched hundreds of them, but this was the only one to date that got me angry. It's terrible, bad script, bad acting, it's hard to watch until the end. It is a project that tried to imitate the blair witch but ended up getting bizarre.

Literally nothing happens. Even the forest is bland and uninteresting with snow everywhere.

There is too much of build up at the beginning, but nothing happens. They run around, abuse each other, get scared, die; but for what reason? It is just lazy lazy film making.

There are some films which leave questions and make you think, but this is not one of those; for the simple reason that there are no clues or hints as to what happens to the characters.

The characters themselves are so weakly developed, that you just want them to die and the movie to end. In the beginning there is a lot of noise made about how it causes people to encounter their sins and judge them; but nothing of that sort really happens.

Waste of time watching this crap!