I started watching this one night while working on a project, had no interest, but ended up selecting it again a couple weeks later forgetting I had already attempted it.
The story is far below lacking, the main female character is terribly miscast, but the main male character is pretty good (Not the fiance-the neighbor). Considering the script, he made it work for his role. I looked him up to see if he had something to do with creating the movie, as he was the only character that seemed comfortable, but no. He's only in one other movie with a "rating", which also seems to be fake-rated by people who worked on the movie.
For the female character though - without a spoiler, I will say there is a scene that is meant to be scary - she is driving - but her unfortunate acting paired with the absurd attempt at jump-scare, did give me the the biggest laugh of the film.
The choice of Malcom McDowell was a win-lose situation. He's an icon for his genre, but having his "role" where you could only show his image on screen for a moment, then the rest is obviously a voice recording just took it from low-budget horror to cheap, spent-the-only-budget-on-this horror.
Production - surprisingly very good cinematography. I say surprisingly because I don't think many will invest the time in watching the whole movie, but if they do, that's the one glaringly obvious imbalance.
Cinematography/photography production far outweighs the story/majority of acting. The location, set, aerials, very well done. If the same person created the script as they did everything else-stick to everything else-and vice versa. They either personally know the writer, or the writer got lucky. If they know their worth, that explains the budget remaining for the lead actress. Worth it.
Props, rarely would I bring this up, but I'm pretty sure the phone used throughout the movie is a wallet cover and piece of green paper. It would have been better if they acknowledge the lead females poor acting and called the phone a "Crapple". At least embrace it.
Either way. Hopefully the main male character has an opportunity for another movie - I'd be interested in seeing if he has range - but this movie didn't give me enough to want watch his other movie.
My recommendation is to watch it if you personally know someone affiliated with making it, watch clips of it without actors or audio if you're searching for a undiscovered gem of a cinematography team, otherwise, maybe listen to it to fall asleep?
