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Occupants (2015)
The worst thriller I've watched this year
22 October 2017 - 9 out of 16 users found this review helpful.
I signed up for IMDb specifically to leave this review because I'm insulted by the 7 star rating this currently has. The only explanation is that these were left by the filmmakers, or at least paid for by them.
Plays like it was designed specifically to show film students how not to make a movie. At one point they zoom in on the video of a girl's ear until it's made up of about 10 pixels, then "enhance image" pops up in the upper right, and it focuses into a high-def image of her earring. It's hard to believe that a modern filmmaker could not be aware of this trope.
- Banal, expositional dialogue - now that they're terrified and being threatened by their alternate-reality selves, when told they can close the portal by burning the house down: "That's arson!"
- Painfully unrealistic character reactions - female lead is attacked with a frying pan in her kitchen and knocked unconscious. A few plot points later they argue about whether they can call the police.
- If your CG looks THAT BAD, don't include it in the movie, just go with some practical effects. I've literally seen better CG in local TV commercials
- A lot of little things, like the fact that they use digital cameras, but they constantly push screen distortion that you'd only get from VHS tapes to add tension
- Not a single scare the entire movie - like literally not one
This gets a 2 because the male lead is passable, but overall this is worse than even the lowest budget grindhouse trash, because it's inexcusably boring.
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