This is a compromised film. Nothing about it feels right, looks right, sounds right.
Cinematography: It starts off as a "lost footage" type horror but gives up really quickly. Why even bother with the annoying 4:3 aspect ratio only to abandon the lost footage idea almost immediately. Similarly the supposed TV news footage looks like digital 4k with a very basic VHS smartphone filter. The switch to grainy black and white footage for "off camera" scenes is pointless. The "blink and you'll miss it" demonic ghostly flashes are amateurish. Even something as basic as the camera motion and angles are all wrong.
Characters: the talk show lead does a passable impression of 70s talk show host.
The skeptic puts in a mostly good performance.
The psychologist character is just stupid.
The "possessed" girl just doesn't cut it, miscast.
The announcer who comes over all Catholic is just bad writing.
More generally everyone looks like contemporary actors cosplaying people from the 1970s, their skin, hair and makeup are wrong (too professional, too good and too modern). The most beautiful Hollywood actresses on Carson in the 1970s didn't look as good as the psychologist in this film.
Writing\story: It's a good premise badly written, badly executed. The sick wife backstory goes nowhere. The corporate big wigs in the audience goes nowhere. The mass hypnosis idea is stupid. The psychic first guest and his fate does not tie in with the plot. The secret society backstory goes nowhere. The sudden religious fervour of the cast and crew is nonsensical. The ending is farcical.
In short, the whole film feels like a Gen Z film graduates first horror film, nobody involved knew how to do their jobs very well at all. Inauthentic, sloppy writing, lacks tension, badly edited, poor effects.
Cinematography: It starts off as a "lost footage" type horror but gives up really quickly. Why even bother with the annoying 4:3 aspect ratio only to abandon the lost footage idea almost immediately. Similarly the supposed TV news footage looks like digital 4k with a very basic VHS smartphone filter. The switch to grainy black and white footage for "off camera" scenes is pointless. The "blink and you'll miss it" demonic ghostly flashes are amateurish. Even something as basic as the camera motion and angles are all wrong.
Characters: the talk show lead does a passable impression of 70s talk show host.
The skeptic puts in a mostly good performance.
The psychologist character is just stupid.
The "possessed" girl just doesn't cut it, miscast.
The announcer who comes over all Catholic is just bad writing.
More generally everyone looks like contemporary actors cosplaying people from the 1970s, their skin, hair and makeup are wrong (too professional, too good and too modern). The most beautiful Hollywood actresses on Carson in the 1970s didn't look as good as the psychologist in this film.
Writing\story: It's a good premise badly written, badly executed. The sick wife backstory goes nowhere. The corporate big wigs in the audience goes nowhere. The mass hypnosis idea is stupid. The psychic first guest and his fate does not tie in with the plot. The secret society backstory goes nowhere. The sudden religious fervour of the cast and crew is nonsensical. The ending is farcical.
In short, the whole film feels like a Gen Z film graduates first horror film, nobody involved knew how to do their jobs very well at all. Inauthentic, sloppy writing, lacks tension, badly edited, poor effects.
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