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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Creepy and gritty...
...but ultimately pointless.
The film rolls on at a steady pace, mixing fake interviews made with poor actors with 'found footage' which, at times, is completely unwatchable due to film makers going OTT with the 'they were VHS tapes, man!' gimmick.
The highlight of the film and ultimately the saving grace is the killer's interactions and relationship with Cheryl (the chapter that includes a short, creepy interview with her is horror gold).
The film is convincing and horrible but ends without a point and although I do appreciate that the 'endless ending' adds to the horror, it came across more as if the makers simply could not think of a way to wrap it up.
For torture-porn movie fans only, really. Everyone else will walk away just feeling a little uneasy but not take a lot else from the film.
Evil Things (2009)
Nothing happens... scream... credits
To give you an idea of how unbelievably brain-rotting this film his, here is an example:
There are ten minutes of just footage of the furniture. The effing furniture.
Oh, it gets better.
(Here come the spoilers)
There are ten minutes of cars being filmed with little dialogue and nothing much else. During this film, nothing happens at all, then there is a few minutes of banging and screaming, then the credits roll. Hell, the director even makes them feel pretentious. There is no story, no character study, no explanation, no meaning or purpose, no violence, no nudity, no sex, no blood, no acting- skill. You don't find out what happened to half the cast, they just disappear.
You get the impression that the murderer is a stalker but you don't get anything more than that at all. He has no ties to the characters, no explanation as to who it could be and if there is some crazy hidden subtext, I sure as hell didn't get it.
Films like this shouldn't just get avoided. They should be sent back to the maker with a effing complaint. Can't believe someone got the opportunity to make a film and made this instead.
I can honestly say that this is the first film I have seen that manages to have no closure, no twists, no ending and yet also manages to allow no interpretation at all.