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The footage of a murder-suicide is released by the local sheriff department but it shows something more than a family tragedy at play. The captured video points to the disturbing fact that the shocking events had something to do with the return of a centuries-old evil and the focal point of one of America’s most famous paranormal events. No, even though this is an Asylum release it is not about Amityville. The Sawyer family son gets a camera for his birthday and as the gruesome chest cam footage from a police officer shows us, this is definitely going to be used to capture something horrible. Although it tells us that this takes place six hours earlier and then explains that the camera footage is starting on “Day One”. Oh, Asylum… way to pay attention to detail. The birthday revelries at the Tennessee house get a little wild (that’s how you get topless chicks on camera) and we get introduced to a gaggle of seemingly unlikable people that you can take comfort in knowing are not long for this world. We also get some drunk dope explaining how the property this family has moved into has a troubling history. A neighbor’s strange behavior ends the night and it’s revealed that the couple were found dead on the side of the road soon after. Ah. You win this round Asylum. Looks like I jumped to a conclusion about you. Day two begins as most days do with the older sister doing her fashion vlog and her brother filming her from the closet for a scare prank. The days go on and low-effort paranormal activity begins. “Luckily” Brandon is there to capture everything. Mutilated animals are discovered in the woods, older sister Dana begins having horrible night terrors and a creepy specter shows up in briefly glimpsed flashes. Escalation is the name of the game as the dangerous presence ramps up the activity in the house and more people begin meeting unfortunate fates. Brandon and his buddy figure the historical haunting that may be plaguing his family is probably a good subject for a film so they set up security cameras around his house to capture more footage to go along with his handheld work. Also included are collected bits of video from other sources including the hilarious final footage of an electrician… I don’t think it was supposed to be funny.
A shockingly formidable found footage haunting (considering where it’s from) that features a few decent bits of macabre and uses an American legend as a foundation. I can respect that. I can also respect that they throw a little more depth to their characters which could have easily been one-note awful idiots (they’re high school siblings). It’s still something you have seen multiple times but after seeing so many of these damn things, I am always happy when effort is put in and the filmmakers believe in what they are throwing out into the world.
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