Some college kids head to a remote house to PARTAY! - but a mysterious little boy awaits them.
Patchy production full of the predictable stuff for this sub-genre, but there are some unusual and effective spooks. It's shot in digital that flattens everything out, and the lighting is poor - sometimes the dialogue sound as well - but there's plenty of energy in the camera movement, with several circular panning shots, and quick-motion sequences that could have looked silly but turn out unsettling. The shot at the start of the trailer is a good example of the effects, so there's more where that came from.
The action is dominated by a couple of jocks, who spend a lot of the time shouting when clearly one of them should have been the first for the chop - why keep two similar characters? But the big problem is the continuity, which gets worse as the climax approaches, with scenes not flowing into each other. You can tell the actors get a bit lost on what they're supposed to do next, which looks like a problem of the director/writer's story-boarding.
The music is sometimes party stuff but mostly a synth score, which has good moments but then some naff Nancy Drew moments.
The origin myth remains obscure until the end, and even then I wasn't sure how the necklace fit in: how did the final girl come by it in the first place?
Overall: Worth a watch.
Ps. A post-credits sequence of some more kids driving to the house at night is pretty alarming: no seat-belts.
Patchy production full of the predictable stuff for this sub-genre, but there are some unusual and effective spooks. It's shot in digital that flattens everything out, and the lighting is poor - sometimes the dialogue sound as well - but there's plenty of energy in the camera movement, with several circular panning shots, and quick-motion sequences that could have looked silly but turn out unsettling. The shot at the start of the trailer is a good example of the effects, so there's more where that came from.
The action is dominated by a couple of jocks, who spend a lot of the time shouting when clearly one of them should have been the first for the chop - why keep two similar characters? But the big problem is the continuity, which gets worse as the climax approaches, with scenes not flowing into each other. You can tell the actors get a bit lost on what they're supposed to do next, which looks like a problem of the director/writer's story-boarding.
The music is sometimes party stuff but mostly a synth score, which has good moments but then some naff Nancy Drew moments.
The origin myth remains obscure until the end, and even then I wasn't sure how the necklace fit in: how did the final girl come by it in the first place?
Overall: Worth a watch.
Ps. A post-credits sequence of some more kids driving to the house at night is pretty alarming: no seat-belts.