Let me say first that virtually any reasonable person will hate this movie. I can't decide if I like it myself. For a good part of it, I sure didn't.
This is sort of like "outsider art" of sci-fi horror. Absolutely terrible by most conventional standards: paced like a slog through a swamp, fairly poorly acting, and a difficult-to-make sense of story.
The story, for what it's worth, is a medical student gets a night job as a caregiver for a cantankerous, agoraphobic old man, who is never seen, but rather only heard perpetually cursing over a baby monitor from his room, as the primary nurse does all the actual attending to him. Strange shadows occasionally dart about and startle him, without explanation. And that's the first half of the movie. And it's, strange, there was actually something about it I kind of liked somehow, but I couldn't tell you what it was. It was pretty bad.
Then, about halfway through, the primary nurse disappears and he goes up to the old man's room to look for her, and things take off straight into what I have to say is some pretty admirable phantasmagoria for a zero-budget movie. And stays there for the rest of the film.
I still don't get what it was actually about, but, they really went full throttle with the weirdness in a more effective way than a lot of low-budget indie features manage to. I might watch it again to see what I think of it.
But it makes sense that a lot of people quite reasonably think this movie is absolutely terrible.
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