Adrian Pasdar, Amber Joy Williams, Austin Williams

Documents one family's descent into darkness, using a compilation of found home-made footage. In the remote woods of upstate New York, the Poe Family lives a Norman Rockwell life. Perfect house. Perfe...( read more  read more... )ct marriage. If only the children stopped stapling frogs to trees. Something is very wrong with ten-year old twins, Jack and Emily Poe. And, to stop them, their parents must enter the nightmare of their minds. The only question is: who will survive the night?

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PG, 80 minutes

Directed by: Christopher Denham

Release Date: July 10, 2008

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DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009

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  • October 30, 2008
    Apart from the Blair Witch Project, this film pulls off the "spontaneous horror movie" thing better than any other I've seen. This is a completely new side of Adrian Pasdar to me, and he is great as the goofy dad trying to retain a normal family life despite two increasingly evil...( read more) children. The woman playing his wife is equally terrific, and their dual roles (as a priest and child psychologist respectively) are wonderful and very believable onscreen. There are so many subtle little things in this movie that add to the aesthetic of found footage, most significantly I though the glimses of the family via a year's worth of holidays. I shudder to think what Jack and Emily got up to during the rest of the year when they weren't on tape.
  • October 27, 2008
    MY FULL REVIEW
  • November 2, 2008
    Decent first person film with interesting performances. Sort of the Blair Witch version of Joshua.
  • October 7, 2009
    Good concept but the swinging of the camera really started to bother me as well as the way they went about trying to achieve what they did. If you want to see movies about evil kids, watch The Omen(original), The Bad Seed or The Good Son and if you want to see a horror film prope...( read more)rly done in the "found footage" angle watch [REC], Cloverfield, or most likely, Paranormal Activity.
  • September 21, 2009
    Didn't even watch the whole thing - it didn't capture my attention. But perhaps I'll try again.
  • August 31, 2009
    Brings nothing new, but is quite entertaining.
  • August 28, 2009
    I love point-of-view horror films and this is one of the best executed examples I've ever seen. It's absolutely riveting and chilling and more often than not my mouth was wide open as I watched disturbing advancement after disturbing advancement in plot. There's something to be s...( read more)aid not only for the horror aspect, but the wonderful immersion. I lost myself in this movie which is brilliant because by the time you get to that last frame, you're begging to see more, unaware that 80 minutes have already passed you by in what felt like 15.
  • August 9, 2009
    Disturbing and awesome, despite a few minor stylistic flaws. Legitimately creepy and unsettling.
  • June 13, 2009
    I can't stand swinging cameras!
  • June 12, 2009
    Interesting...
    Had to stop swinging the camera

Critic Reviews


June 28, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

[Smith] simply celebrates the universal desire to fashion our homes for our needs and desires. full review

June 21, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Seems like someone going through the motions. full review

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