24hrs ago I saw Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, in my review I wrote that if either Elsie or Molly wanted me to recommend them a found footage horror, I would recommend this.
The same here.
However, despite the interesting wraparound of portmanteau stories this is a by the numbers horrors with predictable shocks- something the aforementioned film had more of.
The videos and documents ( like the storage room in Carmichael) are conveniently placed for those to find out. Here it's an abandoned government building. Seriously? A government building? Weak scripting.
The shocks are routine and cheap- camera picks up a figure in the distance, pans either left or right, figure disappears. And despite the fact the audience is supposed to be witnessing raw and uncut footage, the filmmakers add sound effects and subtle musical cues. Cheap directing.
The first story of a father and daughter camping is rather well done with a creepy 'park ranger' loitering around but truly would a father looking for his missing daughter grab the camera. Surely, this documenting would be further from his mind? Again weak scripting.
