Post by nickconrad on Mar 28, 2009 19:10:36 GMT -5
At 77 minutes in length, I was confused as to just how the movie came into existence in the first place. The info box said something to the tune of "we heard noises on our baby monitor that sounded wrong, so we put a video camera in there, and it turns out there was something very very wrong indeed". So I give it a watch. I'd like to ask the opinion of anyone else that saw this movie what they thought. If nobody else has seen it, I won't be surprised.
Spanish movie from what I can tell, subtitled. Subtitled terribly, actually. To the point that the subject of the sentence is swapped several times. "I just want me to believe me" when it should have been "I just want you to believe me" sort of things.
This movie felt to me like someone either hacked out all of the buildup and atmosphere for some inexplicable reason, or nobody had the sense to send the script back to be finished. The first noise they hear out of the baby monitor on their first night with it flips them out to such a degree that they decide the place is haunted. The first night with the video camera they see the "evil", and the rest of the movie spirals extremely quickly from there downward towards predictable results.
There are personality quirks that were clearly intentional (the main character buys the monitor from a female salesperson, and plays it off like it is for his friends as if he was a bachelor available to her advances should she fancy him. He tells his wife a man sold him the monitor. Things like that). These things might have been developed into something significant in a longer film, but with it as it stands I just see filler. Filler, for a 77 minute movie.
The characters never get a buildup of anything at all, so when they react to the situation they find themselves in it seems completely inappropriate.
The opening sequence of the film is supposed to give you the idea that the house has something wrong with it, though it is completely incompatible with what we wind up finding out. What that tells me is that this opening scene was either written by someone else, or written by the same person while drunk which caused the writer to completely forget it ever happened.
I'll stop my rant, because I really could go on. I felt like I was watching a film student's C- project from his junior year. Has anyone else seen this thing?
Spanish movie from what I can tell, subtitled. Subtitled terribly, actually. To the point that the subject of the sentence is swapped several times. "I just want me to believe me" when it should have been "I just want you to believe me" sort of things.
This movie felt to me like someone either hacked out all of the buildup and atmosphere for some inexplicable reason, or nobody had the sense to send the script back to be finished. The first noise they hear out of the baby monitor on their first night with it flips them out to such a degree that they decide the place is haunted. The first night with the video camera they see the "evil", and the rest of the movie spirals extremely quickly from there downward towards predictable results.
There are personality quirks that were clearly intentional (the main character buys the monitor from a female salesperson, and plays it off like it is for his friends as if he was a bachelor available to her advances should she fancy him. He tells his wife a man sold him the monitor. Things like that). These things might have been developed into something significant in a longer film, but with it as it stands I just see filler. Filler, for a 77 minute movie.
The characters never get a buildup of anything at all, so when they react to the situation they find themselves in it seems completely inappropriate.
The opening sequence of the film is supposed to give you the idea that the house has something wrong with it, though it is completely incompatible with what we wind up finding out. What that tells me is that this opening scene was either written by someone else, or written by the same person while drunk which caused the writer to completely forget it ever happened.
I'll stop my rant, because I really could go on. I felt like I was watching a film student's C- project from his junior year. Has anyone else seen this thing?
