Director: Matthew Butler-Hart
Year: 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Trying to carry out a new prank, a pair of women on a massively popular prank channel decide to crash a commercial shoot in the countryside that looks abandoned, but when they go through the recovered footage from the shoot discover there’s a deadly evil summoned to kill them and is now after them.
Review:
This was a decent enough effort if only let down by a few major factors. What works nicely here is how the reveal of what's haunting the house comes to be, which is quite effective and chilling. The occult rituals that were said to take place here with the past occupants of the house finding themselves battling this supernatural force only for the new girls to come across the same thing when they arrive make for a fun time here. The encounters in the house that take place in the second half, where they not only face the robed figure but also see the influence of its actions on the film crew they thought they were interacting with make for a fun time as the use of a creepy location and chilling action makes for a frenetic and thrilling time.
The main problem here is the exhausting and draining build-up to get there as this one really takes its toll getting to this point. Focusing on some of the most vapid and irritating social media personalities who are no more righteous than the people they claim to be committing these against makes for a tough time really caring about what's going on. That comes off even worse when they're positioned as the moral center of what's going on as the antics are said to be so popular, but given that hardly anything interesting is happening either with them or the other film crew on location before they arrive leaves this with little explanation or purpose and drains this one overall.
Overview: **/5
Fun enough for what it is but still hurting due to some big drawbacks, some big factors are holding this one back from what it could be as enough issues are holding this one down. Give it a shot if you’re a fan of this kind of genre fare or appreciate found-footage films in general, while most others out there should heed caution with this one.
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