This is so reliant on that style that it plays like a computer game. The found footage genre takes a lot of criticism, but I think it is an entirely legitimate way of telling a story, if it’s done well. After all, they’re young – this is what they DO. After immediately mocking the superstitious locals, they make the acquaintance of Omar, a confidently westernised regional guide, after discovering their common interest is smoking weed. ‘You are stupid, but beautiful’ intones the sinister proprietor of the hotel at which three young travellers – Rachel (Yael Grobglas) and Sarah (Danielle Jadelyn) (who refer to each other as ‘bitch’) and Kevin (Yon Tumarkin), the young man they immediately pick up, his good looks and charm influencing the girls to change their plans and travel to Jerusalem - are staying. What immediately follows, however, is more scary. I just didn't like it one bit.The opening scene from this Israeli film is quite frightening, depicting as it does an eerie, brutal exorcism. Also with October coming up and, if you're like me and you try to watch as many horror movies as you can, then this is a fairly acceptable flick. I can't really recommend it at all, but you could do far worse. It could have been worse, for sure, but the found footage insanity completely detracts from it all.
OMAR JERUZALEM MOVIE MOVIE
I'd like to know what those people saw that I didn't, cause I honestly didn't like this movie at all. And the audience score is also surprising. I mean it's only at 57%, but I consider that to be pretty good for a horror movie that didn't really have much buzz. I don't know, I'm just kind of surprised that this movie had a better than expected reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Everything leading to that, however, just wasn't very good. Though I did like the ending itself, that was pretty cool. I don't know, but I liked the movie less and less the more it went on. And that's pretty much the opposite of how it actually should be. This is a movie that gets worse and worse by the time these creatures from hell start appearing. There's some cool winged creatures here and there, but the giant looks awful. And I realize that I shouldn't hold that against them, since they probably didn't have a large budget, but I still think that it looked awful. It doesn't even look like an actual giant. The special effects also look terrible, there's this giant that spawns or something and there's some quick cuts to it and it just looks awful. Like when the glasses glitch out or there are quick cuts that are obviously quick cuts, what I mean by that is that that it doesn't look organic or smooth, and it's just an infuriating movie to watch at times. Honestly, there's moments in the film that are just terrible to watch. The problem comes in the fact that, as I mentioned earlier, it relies on all the tropes that everyone hates about the genre. If was to be honest, this movie really is ok at best. It's just a unique place to set a horror movie in and, honestly, they don't do as much with the location and its rich history as they could have, but this is a horror movie, they can only do so much. One of the other things I liked was the fact that it was set in Israel. That's not even getting into the shit that happens once things start to get crazy. Though, honestly, in parts, the Smart Glass itself becomes annoying with its constant face recognition and all its little quirks. It's not like it's something that completely revitalizes the genre, but it does offer a neat little twist on the look of it all. Imagine Google Glass with everything on it, facial recognition, music, Whatsapp, Facebook, games, etc, etc. First of all, I found the approach to it to be somewhat intriguing, it's seen from the point of view of this woman who's wearing these Smart Glasses. And I'm not saying that this is a shit found footage movie, it falls somewhat in the middle, but it falls into every trope of everything that people hate about this style, at least once shit gets going. When I see a shit found footage movie, I'm gonna call them out on it. There's plenty of good movies in the genre, but that's the peak of it to me. Like the first Rec movie, which was excellent and one of my favorite horror movies ever, Chronicle and Troll Hunter. I think that, when used correctly, the found footage genre can yield some excellent results. I wouldn't necessarily call myself a champion of the found footage genre itself, I'm more of a person who disagrees with the generalizations that are thrown toward the sub-genre itself.