Do not read if you didn't watch the movie. I give many spoilers. =============================================================== That being said, contrary to the majority, I find this movie really poor. I've just watched it and write my review still warm.
To many stereotypes. The neighbor girl, whose swimming pool at night is covered with beautiful girls and boys having a very fun party. The two boys who are in conflict with their divorced mother. Each time there is a intense scary scene with loud music, you are sure to have someone putting his hand on the shoulder saying "hey, what's the matter? Are you all right?". By doing that we are all surprised and jump on our seat, well, this is what the director tried us to do. This kind of trick is very well known nowadays so one time is OK, two becomes a lot and three we are really bored.
So the beginning of the movie is OK despite some stereotype things, the action intense, you really wonder what is under that bottomless hole. The idea of using a long rope thrown in it and that is cut without warning, well, you wonder what is it. Throwing nails and no sound is heard, very odd and scary. Where this hole is connected to? Using that fishing rod, great too, it seems endless.
But the very good idea, top of the top is the camcorder. However there is a contradiction in that. The two boys and the girl have just use a rope, it breaks. A fishing rod, it breaks too. And they use their own video camcorder and put it along a rope too? They are not afraid to lose it? Well, you see what I mean, I would have never did that. But well, it is a movie and we have to move on.
So they don't go deep, they get back the camcorder, they watch what it has filmed, nothing, dark with some sparks. Then the mother enters, everybody turn to her and only her see an eye on the TV, wondering what it is. This is GREAT !!!!!! This is great and scary, you really start to become scary and upset and you start to feel not very good. As for myself, I started to look under my seat to see if any monster was under.
Then at night the girl on her bed, hearing some far and low voice, good. The little boy attacked by the puppet in the basement, good. But then it starts to become poor and poor. Imagine you are the little boy, imagine you live what he lived, would you be laughing? Would you go back to the basement at night with your brother and the neighbor girl with Christmas lamp everywhere, waiting for the return of the girl everybody saw? Why do they hide this to their mother? Wouldn't you share your feelings, your fear with your loved mother if you lived such terrible moments? Please, all those teenagers have just witnessed a little girl in bad condition and crying blood, in toilets, in home, telling them she doesn't want to die, then going back crawling to the hole and everybody continue his own life? I would call the army but all of them just sit in front of the hole, joking.
Please !!!!! So maybe teenagers and under find such a movie entertaining and scary but once you are over 20, it simply becomes a comedy instead of a terror movie.
And the policeman, head shot, him too crawling into the hole and the boys behaving almost like normal, barely scared. No please, how do you want to quiver? At the beginning you are quivering but the more you move on, the less you are afraid and the disappointment increase proportionally.
As for the end, the jump in the hole, the fight with the father, really ridiculous. Past the middle of the movie, it is boring, the end is stupid.
So all in all, don't waste your money for that movie. Watch it free if you have the opportunity (free theater ticket, etc...), otherwise avoid it.
To many stereotypes. The neighbor girl, whose swimming pool at night is covered with beautiful girls and boys having a very fun party. The two boys who are in conflict with their divorced mother. Each time there is a intense scary scene with loud music, you are sure to have someone putting his hand on the shoulder saying "hey, what's the matter? Are you all right?". By doing that we are all surprised and jump on our seat, well, this is what the director tried us to do. This kind of trick is very well known nowadays so one time is OK, two becomes a lot and three we are really bored.
So the beginning of the movie is OK despite some stereotype things, the action intense, you really wonder what is under that bottomless hole. The idea of using a long rope thrown in it and that is cut without warning, well, you wonder what is it. Throwing nails and no sound is heard, very odd and scary. Where this hole is connected to? Using that fishing rod, great too, it seems endless.
But the very good idea, top of the top is the camcorder. However there is a contradiction in that. The two boys and the girl have just use a rope, it breaks. A fishing rod, it breaks too. And they use their own video camcorder and put it along a rope too? They are not afraid to lose it? Well, you see what I mean, I would have never did that. But well, it is a movie and we have to move on.
So they don't go deep, they get back the camcorder, they watch what it has filmed, nothing, dark with some sparks. Then the mother enters, everybody turn to her and only her see an eye on the TV, wondering what it is. This is GREAT !!!!!! This is great and scary, you really start to become scary and upset and you start to feel not very good. As for myself, I started to look under my seat to see if any monster was under.
Then at night the girl on her bed, hearing some far and low voice, good. The little boy attacked by the puppet in the basement, good. But then it starts to become poor and poor. Imagine you are the little boy, imagine you live what he lived, would you be laughing? Would you go back to the basement at night with your brother and the neighbor girl with Christmas lamp everywhere, waiting for the return of the girl everybody saw? Why do they hide this to their mother? Wouldn't you share your feelings, your fear with your loved mother if you lived such terrible moments? Please, all those teenagers have just witnessed a little girl in bad condition and crying blood, in toilets, in home, telling them she doesn't want to die, then going back crawling to the hole and everybody continue his own life? I would call the army but all of them just sit in front of the hole, joking.
Please !!!!! So maybe teenagers and under find such a movie entertaining and scary but once you are over 20, it simply becomes a comedy instead of a terror movie.
And the policeman, head shot, him too crawling into the hole and the boys behaving almost like normal, barely scared. No please, how do you want to quiver? At the beginning you are quivering but the more you move on, the less you are afraid and the disappointment increase proportionally.
As for the end, the jump in the hole, the fight with the father, really ridiculous. Past the middle of the movie, it is boring, the end is stupid.
So all in all, don't waste your money for that movie. Watch it free if you have the opportunity (free theater ticket, etc...), otherwise avoid it.