Certainly sounded interesting. The concept has potential. This version, though, is mind-numbingly bad. Where to begin:
#1 The pace of the movie is half-the point of view of a third person, half-home movie nonsense. The first half is so dull I would have fallen asleep if I hadn't been doing chores while I had this on.
#2 The editing is horrendous... you see the camera stops in some of the jumps in footage. They attempt that technique of flashing back and forth between one side of a character and another - to build suspense? - but all it actually does is make you wonder what the movie is doing. One switch was so abrupt I had to back it up to make sure I hadn't missed anything.
#3 The plot spends half the movie developing the characters' frustrations with each other and arguing about whether the Devil is real or not. Yawn.
#4 Acting is pathetic. In one scene, one of the campers is crawling - bloodied - through the woods, ostensibly to try to stay alive. From one angle, he looks genuinely anguished (though the blood looks more like water with a little red dye in it), but from the other angle, he just looks tired. A victim in one scene screams before the hit. Plenty of screaming somebody's name and "is somebody out there?" with no reason to expect any answer.
SPOILER: And, the coup de gras! In one scene there are actually very fake looking lighted red eyes peering from inside the woods (stolen from "Amityville Horror"?), but the end of the movie all but says it's not the Devil doing the killing. So what were those eyes supposed to be?
SPOILER: And, the coup de gras! In one scene there are actually very fake looking lighted red eyes peering from inside the woods (stolen from "Amityville Horror"?), but the end of the movie all but says it's not the Devil doing the killing. So what were those eyes supposed to be?
