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Overall Rank: 15819
Average Rating: 2.3/4
# of Ratings: 18
Theatrical Release Date: 03/09/2012
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 05/08/2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael A. Nickles
Actors: Johnny Pacar, Ambyr Childers, Christian Slater, Jonathan Keltz, Alessandra Torresani, Toby Hemingway
Plot: A group of teens get more then they bargained for when they delve into their town's dark history. Now an evil has been unleashed, and hunting down victims through video playback, it will stop at nothing until it finds the one soul it seeks and exposes the darkest secret of all. -- Chris Kavan
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1.5/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 06/17/2012
Woeful attempt to cash in on the found footage craze. The story has a chance to be interesting, but the acting is amateur at best (poor Christian Slater - what did he do to deserve this) and the effects chintzy. Unless you're a die hard horror fan, probably best to just skip this one.
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A moderate horror that won't make you shiver.
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 02/16/2015
I expected a really crappy movie, but ultimately it wasn't so bad.
Not very original and classifiable under the teen-horror movies (Friday the 13th and associates) in which teenagers doggedly continue what they are doing without following good advice and thus get into trouble. And this mixed with a kind of "The Ring" phenomenon. Slater also appears as some sick peeping pervert. I guess he has a shortage of money since he's joining a lot of low-budget movies lately.
Eventually I thought the story was very vague. Something about filming persons after which their souls are being absorbed. And then they come up with that "Le Prince" figure .... duh ... I don't think I'm going to watch this again so I could find the deeper meaning of it. But ultimately I didn't fall asleep while …
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