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Francesco Gasperoni owes me 7 hours of my life back! 84 mins for the film and the rest as compensation.

I really like Polaroid and thought this would be along the same lines. I was so disappointed!

This was at least one performer's debut and I am truly shocked they ever got work again based on this poor attempt. The film itself is awful, but the acting actually manages to make it worse. And on top of all that, half the time it's like either the characters have multiple personalities, or the writer does.

There were only 2 things that could possibly be considered redeeming features of this film and they are Armand Assante and the ending, that final little twist made me chuckle.

A group of (let's call them) "mature" university students, with a mental age of 13, go on holiday. The fact that half the group looked middle-aged added an extra level of weirdness to their inappropriately immature behaviour.

While still on the road, the aspiring photographer gets her camera stolen in the most ridiculous way possible. So she buys a Polaroid to replace it, from a creepy guy, in a creepy shop, who offers it for an eighth of what it is worth, because that's not remotely dodgy. And it makes perfect sense to take something with a very limited number of shots to photograph an entire holiday.

After a gratuitous sex scene, they happily leave one "friend" behind and actually start a fight with her ex for trying to check on her, because nothing bad ever happens to tourists (particularly female ones) who wander off alone.

The group almost immediately get lost in the woods, because not a single one among them can read a map, leading to random tantrums, individually and in small groups. They meet a hunter and take his picture,(all horror films need a random stranger to bump off early on) because a picture of a hunter butchering a deer is obviously all the evidence they'll need to get him arrested.....once they get out of the woods, which they'll need his help to do.

A bit more bickering and some teenage fumbling later, two more members of the group find a weak reason to take photos of each other (only one each to make sure there are enough picture to go round). It's all just so stupid!

Then just after being told that anybody who's photo is taken with the camera dies and lying about taking the hunter's pic, one of the group hears a scream and comes back smeared with blood shouting about needing to leave NOW!, so of course the rest of the group asks if something has happen, as if they can't see any possible explanation for his panic. Even after seeing the mutilated body, they're far more interested in arguing than working out what happened.

And just to prove some kind of point one of the guys took a forced selfie with one of the girls. I assume this was an attempt to build some kind of tension, but it was such a predictable "rebellion" and so childish it was less tense and more annoying.

After one of the group is supposedly turned to charcoal by a freak lightning strike, the rest find a handy cabin just a short distance away, that they'd somehow missed in their wandering and the hunter hadn't mentioned existed. And then the ghost attacks. One girl manages to walk backwards with such force she impales herself on a tree branch. And then there's the horror of a floating spade!

Having finally worked out that people are being killed by the things in the photo with them, they don't even try to work out what is going to happen to the one surviving photo subject. So he gets set on fire, then speared out of nowhere, never mind, we all move on.

The last 20ish minutes (if that) seem to be the entire inspiration for the film and the rest of the excruciating twaddle was all just to get to this point. The tragic story of the crime scene photographer who arrives at a scene to find the victim is his own child is pretty compelling. His wife commits suicide and he loses everything, including his mind. After losing his job he starts creating his own crime scenes by taking a photo of people and killing them with the things in that photo. Eventually he too commits suicide and 43 years later he is giving out cameras in a curio shop with his dead daughter. Oh and the hunter was already dead too, but came back to be murdered again because reasons. The end. No explanation for the resurrections, ghostly murders, or how exactly a disembodied lunatic called down lightning.

I am glad I watched till the end though, the trick with the car window was....magnifique! Because after all that had happened, she still took a picture of the car knowing what would happen if she'd got the driver in the shot.

This is probably one of the few times I'd say a film is the worst I've seen but simply put it is. From the direction to the script to the acting to just about everything is absolutely terrible.

1. To start the script has a severe lack of logic, in one scene when the group finds a dead body the one character suggests they go to the police. Then another character says they shouldn't because he believes the police will think they're involved in this person's death. Now that's a lot like saying if you go and report a crime to the police you'll get arrested for reporting a crime or as if they're actually going to the police to say "Hey dudes, we killed someone and we'd like you to come check out our awesome crime scene." As if the police would say. "Cool man, if we like it we'll arrest you." Also in the third act the very same character after being rattled by one of his friend's death develops a knack for asking the most annoyingly dumb questions one after the other almost without taking a breath and his behavior in that particular situation makes no sense what so ever.

2. To elaborate on the direction the film is shot in Morocco and judging from the establishing shots there's some nice scenery but during the dialog scenes most of the time the only thing we see are close up shots of faces and no scenery. While these close up shots are usually suppose to be about emotions the actors display virtually none. In fact the acting is so wooden you can use it to make a rocking chair.

Overall, this film truly is the worst film I've seen in a while. Armand Assante is one of my favorite actors hence the reason I sought this film out. He probably just did this film for the paycheck even though he only plays a small part in this film despite getting top billing. I recommend to not even give this film a second thought, it's a waste of time either way.

Okay....I started watching this thinking it was going to be a remake of a J-horror movie like the Grudge or the Ring or Shutter. Then I said wait...what is all this Italian stuff?? Something isn't right here. My first clue that this was going to bad AWFUL was when this group of "students" (who all happen to look like they are about 30 years old)are traveling through the barren desert on a "holiday". LO and behold...a camera is stolen (but the girl carrying it in her shoulder bag doesn't notice that it is gone until several miles later when they arrive at a village...duh) and she just happens to find a "camera shop"...yeah right.... And she buys a camera that spits out Polaroids. Then along their way they get to the edge of the desert, park their fully stocked, fully, gassed up, fully functioning Land Rover to hike on a well marked trail carrying backpacks with minimal supplies into a forest complete with streams, woods, chirping birds, deer and (gasp)meet a mysterious nomadic hunter who just happens to speak perfect English. Only to get hopelessly lost after 5 minutes. The plot while thin. had possibilities. In this movie it is just a joke. The acting is world-class awful and the only good thing the movie had going for it was a very nice Land Rover and the spectacular scenery. If you like AWFUL movies,,,this one may be your cup of tea and you may SMILE while you're watching it.

With more than 20 years of being deluged by found footage, fake ghost hunters or remakes of movies no one wanted. There are no new ideas no new settings no new monsters that strike fear unless Slenderman scares you because he doesn't scare me. While this movie has tons of issues and the haunted camera isn't a new idea and it has my biggest problem in horror movies today, a collection of characters i can't wait for them to die. I like the setting, I like the Moroccan gentleman not being portrayed as a rapacious savage looking to rob the men and rape the women and considering that the French have had the same sort of relationship we (America) have had with Native Americans it, at least to me, was surprising. It had some out of place emotions as well as a very odd singing performance that can only be because the female actor has a relationship with a person who financed, directed or produced the film. Maybe a similar movie exists but I thought the uniqueness added a couple of stars and with the dearth of new ideas new settings new stories we should all promote that. I get the problems the others had with this and as I already said it has issues but I enjoyed the escape from found footage fake ghost hunter documentaries or movies with guys killing presumably because the mask they have to wear do to deformity is scratchy and they don't like it.

I'll start off by saying that this is far from being the worst movie I've ever seen. Yeah it's an interesting concept, though one done a million times already, but that's all I can really say. The actors aren't very good, as their dialogue feels so forced and they are fairly wooden. The plot is a bit confusing too as it's about a killer camera, but then they suddenly set it in mountains that are supposedly haunted but the haunted part never comes up really. Why does a ghost run a camera shop? You want to stop the camera from ever killing again and instead of destroying it you try to use up all the film? There's just too many spots this falls apart at. There are one or two nice gore effects, but nothing to really justify watching the film overall.

Where to begin...this movie has all of the horror tropes onboard: college 'kids' (who are all clearly in their mid thirties), a group excursion to another country, weed, a camping trip, woods, mysterious people who aren't ever explained, blood-drenched knives, random gunshots being fired in the woods by nobody, floating shovels - ok those are a bit novel and one of the highlights of the hilarity, and just wait until you see the aftermath of the shovel victim - a creepy kid, a felled tree blocking the road, becoming lost in the woods, unseen hit and run motorists, the same reused shot of the moon in the sky, night after night, a lantern falling over and burning down a cabin, woods that even in the clear daytime have heavy smoke coming from and going in all directions, and possibly the worst thunder and lightning you've seen since a B-movie from the late 1920s - holy heck does this one run the gamut.

We weren't terrified, nor even scared, and the few weak attempts at a jump scare fell flat with us, but as a campy horror movie, there's a lot to laugh about in this one.

Armand Assante steals the few scenes he's in, and the hunter is the only other good actor here. Although English isn't his native language, the middle-eastern actor portraying the hunter has impeccable English and is more convincing an actor than anyone else present. You'll want Tommy to die early on, but tough luck - you will have to suffer his incessant whining about EVERY FREAKING THING until near the end. Odd too is how the dialogue almost seems dubbed in English over everyone speaking English, as if a lot of the dialogue was re-recorded in post. The scenery is sometimes great and other times seems like it was shot in the woods behind your aunt's home, and there are some out of focus shots and one VERY out if focus shot, the aforementioned overuse of smoke here there and everywhere, a pitiful script, and some C-movie special effects round out the rest of this turkey.

Oddly, there's a symphony orchestra playing music thru much of it, which seems very out of place at times. I think they blew the budget on Armand and the orchestra, and made do with what they found in the couch cushions and under the car seats for the rest of it.

This is one to have some friends over, pour the beer and wine, and laugh at the absurdity of this clown car of a movie, and really enjoy the few scenes that make you laugh so hard that it almost feels like this movie is what gave the Wayans inspiration to make Scary Movie.