![]() The less said about Bella Thorne the better. The effects are ropy at best, the sound quality is obvious and utilised cheaply (being too loud in the build ups and people's reactions) and it's best not mentioning the uniformly lumbering and histrionic acting. Making the film feel bland and forgettable with not enough heart put into it. Their annoying and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrates. Too many characters are too sketchy and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Going on further to the negatives, the story does feel paper thin, disjointed and over-stretched and some of it feels vague, under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less scary. Unfortunately, it is not done justice by the rather direct to video schlocky way it's shot and edited, it was very clear that the film was made in a rush with no care or enthusiasm. There is next to nothing to recommend and it is a sleeper. 'Keep Watching', with a plethora of problems (huge ones too) and doesn't do enough with its potential, which was hardly small. It is sadly however yet another film seen recently, hence some reiteration because the exact same strengths and flaws those films have are present here, that to me was incredibly disappointing considering its potential which it doesn't do anywhere near enough with. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there, made me though apprehensive. 'Keep Watching' drew me into seeing it, with a cool poster/cover, an slightly intriguing but very derivative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for horror. Hopefully Whannell and Gruffudd score some better movie roles. So, I could've spent that 1,5 hours a bit better but luckily I never have to watch this again. Leigh Whannell was a fun add, he always cracks me up. ![]() At least she doesn't have annoying mannerisms, at least not yet. She was okay I guess, could've been worse. Bella Thorne is new to me, I don't follow Disney stars and don't really give a crap about them. ![]() Chandler Riggs will always be Carl (CORAL!!) to me and he did what was expected of him. Ioan Gruffudd is always believable to me, he's got some talent, and Natalie Martinez handled that "naive, helpless housewife"-part well. It is literally impossible for the killer to know what is going to happen Every Single Time and I feel like a lot of horror movie makers, especially this "kill or be killed"-genre, relies on it.Ībout the acting I have no massive complaints. I wasn't even remotely scared once, I was wanted everyone dead so they end the damn film.īetween the jump scares and "come look at this"-cliches I didn't find a lot of originality and neither was that whole "the killers know every move you make beforehand"-bs very believable. it's annoying and I feel like jumping from a hidden camera to hand-held camera to god-knows-what camera took so much away of this movie.
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