W.C. G.

It made me laugh hard and it made me cry. Everyone played their parts beautifully. You could feel the 70s and smell the sweet south carolina air and I felt like I was there. The details were spot on, from the funeral parlour and the foods cooked at the family gatherings all the way down to the the shag carpet in the motel, it was a carolina affair and I was living it through the screen.

Powerful. Emotional. Beautiful. I laughed, I cheered and I cried. The story was heartfelt, the music was inspiring and the actors brilliantly depicted the charismatic and courageous spirit of Africans during such a turbulent and terrible time in their nation's history. I felt like I was there. Great movie!

Boring and predictable. I could call lines and scenes before they happened. Lin Shaye plays in this movie, the SAME ROLE SHE PLAYS IN EVERY MOVIE, IN A MOVIE ABOUT THE SAME THING AS EVERY OTHER MOVIE SHE'S EVER PLAYED IN... and it was insufferable. After 12 min I turned it off. You can now see Lin Shaye's face on a movie cover, fully predict what the movie will be about and save yourself the trouble of watching a slightly tweeked repeat of something identical to everything else she's ever done. Don't get your hopes up about the rest of the film, becuase the actors were so bad, it was distracting from the storyline. I felt like I was watching a first take rehearsal done by a high school drama class.

Had the potential to be a good movie. Was "supposedly" based on "real found footage" But just minutes into the film you can tell the rooms had been staged. On several shots props that had been taken away, destroyed or removed from the property by the owner were seen again throughout the film in their original placments. The "kid's drawing" found in the bible was clearly done by an adult/professional. Also despite finding multiple questionable belongings and "crime scene" belongings including blood stained clothes, a satanic alter, a grave site, as well as being unable to enter certain rooms of his own home when he believes intruders are inside the owner never contacts the police. Even before he sees the videos of "ghostlike" activity. Also Despite there being over 20 cameras on the property nothing significant is ever captured on film. In short clearly the film was a fake as have been all the paranormal films that precededed it but if you're going for believable in this film or even close you fell waaay under the bar. I get the director had a good vision for this movie and a good, dedicated to his role actor but the sloppiness of the whole premise, set, story was so distracting I found myself arguing with the plot out loud and being too distraceted by the consistent and redundant mistakes that I was unable to enjoy the film as it was likley intended for people to do.