A government funded trauma study is focusing on subjects who were hit with sudden and life-altering trauma. Maddy O’Brien is one of these subjects and she has been tasked to film her day to day life with the help of a researcher from the program (Alice). We’re seeing this footage combined with some home video and unauthorized monitoring footage installed on Maddy’s personal devices thanks to a court order, although some material is still redacted. Maddy’s parents have left the house on vacation as the final stage of the study concerns the subject being on her own except for the researcher monitoring her and checking in daily. Maddy is researching some odd shit that may or may not have to do with whatever awfulness went down a year ago and Alice lets her dig even if her superiors aren’t happy about it. There’s stories of a fertility cult her parents were a part of to deepen the intrigue. Noises in the empty house begin to bother Maddy but she keeps looking into her past. Old family videos are found, there’s plenty of footage of nothing (and with this supposedly being edited down from 600 hours, I really can’t imagine how ass-numbing the cut footage was) and a demonically terrifying history behind the cult is revealed. A successfully disturbing collage of home video is found in the attic and it kind of just makes you regret they had to wait this long for any macabre thrills to come into play. Even at under an hour, it feels a bit too long. There’s effort thrown into the story and the small cast is fine but there’s a large chunk that just sort of ambles until the info dump falls and we get to the point.
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