Evil Things is the title of this pseudo-found footage type movie. The title is about as exciting as it gets. I just spent the last hour watching this piece (it only took an hour because I sped up the playback to 1.5X speed after the first 20 minutes just about had me bored into a coma. This film fails across the board.
The title is misleading. Evil Things makes me thing of spooks, bad guys, monsters, et al. The closest we get is a Duel-esque black van. Sorry guys. That well has been drunk dry. This is the 21st century. With a title like Evil Things, the audience wants there to BE some evil things that we can see...or hear...and most of all...FEAR. I'm still trying to figure out what relevance the title had to anything thing that went down in that film other than the esoteric splash screen quotation at movie's end. Swing and a miss on the title.
The movie purports to be a found footage movie. It is not. More properly is a movie ABOUT found footage. Evil Things has a sound score AND a scene that is shot from third person. Either of these conditions preclude it from being found footage, plain and simple. I suppose maybe the back story might be written that a janitor 'find this footage' in the back room of a post-production shop. Swing and a miss.
There is no back story provided like in the Blair Witch, which one can only assume, this film was emulating. Problem is, the plot is SO weak, the characters so poorly developed that it NEEDS the back story laid out in more than just the quick splash screen at the beginning.
Evil Things does employ a need tool by having some video from the bad guy's point of view. Neat, but again, it fails. Suspension of Disbelief is one thing, but bad guy moves around a house without making a noise...come on...he's walking around a strange house in the dark looking through a camera and not only does he manage to not make a noise...he subdues 5....yes, 5...healthy adults without once being viewed and seems to do it without making any noise either (other than the sound of that one girl screaming...and screaming....and screaming(maybe THAT'S what killed the others!!!)) Swing and miss...and that makes three strikes.
Blair Witch, Cloverfield this is not. It begins being about nothing and pretty much finishes that way. In the middle a group of whiny girls get mad at a dork for putting a camera in their face and there's some highway footage of a black van.
The title is misleading. Evil Things makes me thing of spooks, bad guys, monsters, et al. The closest we get is a Duel-esque black van. Sorry guys. That well has been drunk dry. This is the 21st century. With a title like Evil Things, the audience wants there to BE some evil things that we can see...or hear...and most of all...FEAR. I'm still trying to figure out what relevance the title had to anything thing that went down in that film other than the esoteric splash screen quotation at movie's end. Swing and a miss on the title.
The movie purports to be a found footage movie. It is not. More properly is a movie ABOUT found footage. Evil Things has a sound score AND a scene that is shot from third person. Either of these conditions preclude it from being found footage, plain and simple. I suppose maybe the back story might be written that a janitor 'find this footage' in the back room of a post-production shop. Swing and a miss.
There is no back story provided like in the Blair Witch, which one can only assume, this film was emulating. Problem is, the plot is SO weak, the characters so poorly developed that it NEEDS the back story laid out in more than just the quick splash screen at the beginning.
Evil Things does employ a need tool by having some video from the bad guy's point of view. Neat, but again, it fails. Suspension of Disbelief is one thing, but bad guy moves around a house without making a noise...come on...he's walking around a strange house in the dark looking through a camera and not only does he manage to not make a noise...he subdues 5....yes, 5...healthy adults without once being viewed and seems to do it without making any noise either (other than the sound of that one girl screaming...and screaming....and screaming(maybe THAT'S what killed the others!!!)) Swing and miss...and that makes three strikes.
Blair Witch, Cloverfield this is not. It begins being about nothing and pretty much finishes that way. In the middle a group of whiny girls get mad at a dork for putting a camera in their face and there's some highway footage of a black van.