In a war of attrition against her devastating disease and malicious unworldly presence, Deborah Logan slowly wanes right in front of camera. There aren't many horror films that have taken the fall of a person so daringly, it's actually taxing to see how Deborah gradually weakens both physically and mentally. The movie capitalizes on the sympathetic effect, and with it manages to instill frightening doubt for the character.
Jill Larson as Deborah Logan is exceptionally effective. She can be utterly fragile but still bizarrely menacing when the next scene rolls. There's a lingering sense of dread upon seeing another person falters in lucid details; her thinning body and hair are particularly creepy. As she grows weaker the movie aptly displays irregularity with brisk pace and terrifying conditions.
Production with the debilitating disease as well as the back story is made meticulously. It achieves more feeling of authenticity than most mockumentary style movies did. The pinnacle of its scare is when the pace slows down and barely a voice humming, this is a movie that takes time to set the dark atmosphere. Rather than simple shocks, it creates a more relatable unsettling situation.
It's, however, still possessed by some of the genre clichés. There can be so many running and screaming female protagonists wearing white tank top before it gets dull, and that time has come and gone years ago. It's odd since the film at first sets the characters to be intellect, and while it does invest on Deborah, it could've been better if the other characters are more engaging since there is some good chemistry here. Some of them are meant to be genuine, but they come across as annoying.
The movie might not reinvent the found footage genre, but it brings atmospheric horror and thoroughly terrorizing main character.
Jill Larson as Deborah Logan is exceptionally effective. She can be utterly fragile but still bizarrely menacing when the next scene rolls. There's a lingering sense of dread upon seeing another person falters in lucid details; her thinning body and hair are particularly creepy. As she grows weaker the movie aptly displays irregularity with brisk pace and terrifying conditions.
Production with the debilitating disease as well as the back story is made meticulously. It achieves more feeling of authenticity than most mockumentary style movies did. The pinnacle of its scare is when the pace slows down and barely a voice humming, this is a movie that takes time to set the dark atmosphere. Rather than simple shocks, it creates a more relatable unsettling situation.
It's, however, still possessed by some of the genre clichés. There can be so many running and screaming female protagonists wearing white tank top before it gets dull, and that time has come and gone years ago. It's odd since the film at first sets the characters to be intellect, and while it does invest on Deborah, it could've been better if the other characters are more engaging since there is some good chemistry here. Some of them are meant to be genuine, but they come across as annoying.
The movie might not reinvent the found footage genre, but it brings atmospheric horror and thoroughly terrorizing main character.