This movie is shot from the point of view (at least to start) of a little girl carrying a videocamera. I believe this was done for three reasons:
First, it makes it “different” from other people-pursued-by-nasty-things movies.
Second, it justifies the incompetence of the camera work and masks the bad dialogue/dialogue lapses with perpetual random chatter.
Third, it garners sympathy for the overall poor quality of the film and its characters.
What’s next, cute-kitty-cat-cam? Defenseless-crawling-toddler-cam?
Exploiting-peoples-sympathies-for-a-buck-cuz-we’re-morally-and-artistically-bankrupt-cam?
Maybe this was just some sleazy film exec’s answer to the question: “How do we make people care about an otherwise generic horror flick?”
Alternate Title: ‘Little Susie’s Camera Fascination Meets BLOOD’
Alternate Title 2: ‘The Gore Glitch Project’
‘Area 407’ was filmed on location in a vacant field. *MST RIP*
The only halfway intelligent parts of the film play on government conspiracy paranoia, but there are only two of them and they last a combined 5 minutes, tops. But I’m not gonna tell you where they are. I sat through this pile of exploitative sh1t, and if you wanna find out, DIY.
Here’s maybe how this went down…*PYTHON RIP*
“Quite frankly, I think the central script system may need strengthening a bit.”
“Isn’t that going to put the cost up?”
“Ummmm…it might.”
“Well, I don’t know if I’d worry about strengthening THAT much…I mean, it’s not meant to be a luxury movie.”
“Quite agree, quite agree…I think provided the viewers are of light mind and relatively sedentary, and given a spot of good luck, I think we’re on to a winner here.”
Grade: F-
12/31/13: Two halfway-intelligent bits are two more than an F- should have. Grade: F