I have now, like many of us, seen pretty much all manner of "Found Footage" flicks. Some pretty damn good. Some so-so. And FAR too many just flat-out dreadful. However, out of this whole "Hit or Miss" bunch I can't recall one that wasn't made in the USA. That is until I took a chance on a German entry into this past-it's-prime genre, "Die Präsenz" ("The Presence"). And I gotta say, I would plop this one down right smack-dab between "pretty damn good" and "so-so" on the worthwhile-to-watch spectrum.
You will likely join me in finding that it takes a good while before things get crackin' here (Do the Germans have a fascination with prolonged camera shots of watching people sleep? As in, like, SEVERAL such scenes). But once Writer/Director/Producer Daniele Grieco (hey, dude pretty much HAD to do it all on a reported $40,000 budget) fires things up here the ages-old haunted castle terrorized by an unseen and ruthlessly inhospitable entity yarn gets a fairly fresh new spin that should leave you both sufficiently entertained and adequately creeped out.
You will likely join me in finding that it takes a good while before things get crackin' here (Do the Germans have a fascination with prolonged camera shots of watching people sleep? As in, like, SEVERAL such scenes). But once Writer/Director/Producer Daniele Grieco (hey, dude pretty much HAD to do it all on a reported $40,000 budget) fires things up here the ages-old haunted castle terrorized by an unseen and ruthlessly inhospitable entity yarn gets a fairly fresh new spin that should leave you both sufficiently entertained and adequately creeped out.