These people take the “no cameraman” ethic of “found footage” films even further, to “no editor”. This appears to be a group of banal college students with no acting experience at all who went to an empty house and improvised a horror movie (albeit one without any horror), then taped all the footage they shot together and called it done. There are interminable, pointless passages of them talking to their professors in class, sitting in the car playing “Never Have I Ever”, uneventfully exploring the house and grounds, all shot with a total lack of any kind of cinematic or even sound recording quality that makes the previous recordholder for “worst first-person shooter” I’d ever seen look like Citizen Kane in comparison. No plot, no attempt to build tension, until finally, over an hour into the movie, people’s cameras suddenly do the deaddrop one by one for no explained reason and everybody starts running through the house and woods yelling each other’s names. Basically, it’s like a bunch of students saw “The Blair Witch Project” and said, “Hey, we could do that!”, but they couldn’t.
