Rating of
3/4
The Best Marketing Campaign Ever!
Tino - wrote on 05/22/08
Good fun movie. The 'blair witch' camera style is an effective way to directly follow the few cast members, who are trying to survive and find their friend in the terrorized streets of Manhattan. The movie can be genuinely frightening, if you're not burnt out on the handheld shaky camera deal. The movie is straightforward and doesn't pull any remorseful speeches with any hidden meanings, which is very refreshing. This film definitely helps revitalize the genre, emphasizing little camera time for the actual monster (which is very satisfying), and focusing on better quality fright, over the quantity of cheap jumper and gore scares in most horror films today. But the best part, was the marketing. It made you have to see the monster, and figure out what it was once and for all. As far as the director and producer getting their message (which is nothing more then a great monster movie) this one is the best one in recent memory. This one satisfies, and stays clean without completely wearing out its welcome with an 84 minute run-time. Easily, the best film of '08 thus far.
