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[Lear]

Has anyone else seen it yet? I saw it tonight with a couple friends and I'm almost wishing I hadn't. Not because it was terrible but it deeply, deeply bothered me. The basic premise is about a boyfriend and girlfriend who live in a nice house together and the boyfriend sets up a camera to help find out what's causing these emanations of fear in his girlfriend. The movie starts out normal enough and things don't happen as quickly as they do in "normal" horror movies. The escalation of the unsettlingness was really well done I think *shudder*.

But, characters weren't even that well made and at some points act unbelievably. And yet the movie has had a profound impact on me. I found that after the movie, creepy or disturbing stuff I've witnessed or watched or read has had it's creep factor multiplied by a power of ten.

It might've been because I was pretty tired when I saw it which caused this, but now I don't want to sleep. It probably wouldn't be too disturbing to someone who regularly watches decent horror films, but I am not one of those people.

Your thoughts/reactions to it?

[Areyar]

It's called paranoia.

Enjoy moderately, overuse can damage sanity.

[LegoLord]

Most of the people in the History in Film class I take thought it was horrible.  Past experience has shown their ratings to be pretty accurate, though I have not seen this particular movie myself.

[Lear]

Most of the people in the History in Film class I take thought it was horrible.  Past experience has shown their ratings to be pretty accurate, though I have not seen this particular movie myself.

I don't think it was horrible, it certainly wasn't a great movie, the characters act pretty stupid towards the end of the movie and there are a few useless story elements. I do think it was at least a decent movie, especially considering it was made on a $15k budget. Sure produced something better than a lot of multi-million dollar productions and something far scarier than your average gory "horror" film.

Downfalls aside, this movie freaked me out as the "spooky stuff" happens mostly when the characters are asleep which adds a nice "While you're sleeping, if something bad happens you will be unable to do anything about it" kinda feeling as well as the whole feeling of not being able to directly see whatever it is that wants your soul.

It's called paranoia.

Enjoy moderately, overuse can damage sanity.

Lack of sleep greatly increases it's effect that's for sure. <_<