Evil Things (2009)

Evil Things: Directed by Dominic Perez. With Laurel Casillo, Morgan Hooper, Torrey Weiss, Ryan Maslyn. On January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence – until now.

“Some friends celebrating the 21st birthday of one of their members decide to spend a winter weekend in the country, relaxing in a large modern home in the woods. Before they even arrive they begin to feel theyu0026#39;re being followed.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is told solely from the point of view of found footage, apparently anonymously delivered to the FBI.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI found the acting to be quite good – at no point did I not believe these were some kids out on a weekend trip…. except for the unnatural way the one kid CONSTANTLY filmed everything. Guess I can look the other way since without him weu0026#39;d miss much of the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the whole, not enough happens and the ending is confusing and Iu0026#39;m left wondering what happened.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe filmmakers completely and utterly ruined their film by adding a soundtrack to the latter fourth of the film. It adds nothing, breaks any u0026quot;this is real found footageu0026quot; spell successfully cast up to that point, and WORST OF ALL covered up certain sounds like the phone ringing and some of the kidsu0026#39; panicked conversation. What a bummer.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI canu0026#39;t recommend this movie. Even if there was a more natural version lacking a silly soundtrack, not enough happens at the end to justify the time it takes to watch the movie.”