October 22, 2011

Evil Things (2011)

It was back to normal as the DLT film club resumed with this terrible offering. Evil Things created this image in my mind of a very scary film but what we got was anything but. We’ve seen a few of these found footage type films and to be honest this was by far the worst. I think that it’s like anything after a while you come to expect something more and to be honest anything would have been better than this. I would even have watched Troll Hunter again.

The film starts off with these five people travelling somewhere and soon a mad van starts following them and for a large portion of this. We have a moody girl who we called ‘car sick girl’ and soon after this started it became the other guy’s (the one who wasn’t holding the camera) turn to become annoying.

The problem with this film is that none of it made sense. Was it trying to be a sort of Blair Witch type film or was it trying to be Paranormal Activity? The film seemed to be a mad guy with a van but then there was a moment when a door just slams shut. Was it implying the guy with the van did this but if he was in the van during this then what/who caused this. The film moves at odd paces. Before we know it, they are lost in the woods and within seconds start turning on each other. In any other film this would progress over 10-15 minutes, then no sooner have they started turning on each other than they start screaming at a broken branch and start running towards the house.

This is the first film from Domonic Perez and hopefully he will direct better films because this is an awful film.

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