Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

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I am a huge Marble Hornets fan and this was nothing like it. It was like reading the Percy Jackson books before seeing the movies... this is just my opinion though and i'm not hating on the makers or the movie its just not what i expected i guess. And if you like the movie that good for you i guess. I was also really confused because the names of the characters i didn't recognize and i know most of their names. (Alex, Jay, Tim/Masky, Brian/hoodie, Seth, the Operator and Jessica) if i missed any other characters i blame it on my really short term memory. So if your a MH fan and you are thinking about watching it then don't. If you want to check it out for yourself then go head but I didn't in joy the movie.

*SPOILERS AHEAD!!* Small ones, not that important but small So I'll first say I thought this was going to be the worst piece of poop called a movie in the history of movies... And I was wrong! This has great actors who look panicked when they see him in the cameras, sad when a dog dies, and the best screams when Slendy opened a door with so much force that it could break a wall. The setting perfectly sets the mood like in the actual marble hornets production (I've watched the Marble Hornets Entries twice). You knew exactly where they were and what they were doing. I don't understand why people hate it. Yes the idea of not seeing him with the bare eye is not on the same legend, but they only did that so people could understand why they needed the cameras. It's just they way of making this more suspenseful. I also don't understand why people can't find a plot to this. I could make a whole summary of the movie in 1 single paragraph. The final thing I don't understand is why do people not like the idea of the camera isn't a 3rd person POV, but a 1st person camera. In conclusion, this movie was a masterpiece that deserves to be told so.

I'm a huge a fan of Slenderman and the other Creepypastas, so as you can imagine I've re watched the Marble Hornet entries about 10 times. Before I watched this movie I looked up reviews and saw that they all say that this movie wasn't good, but I continued watching because this is the only Slenderman movie I could find. Let me tell you that those reviews were lies(at least in my opinion) The movie captured Slenderman and the Marble Hornet entries perfectly, besides the fact that you could only see him through the camera but they could have put that so it was a reason the characters kept recording. Honestly this movie deserves SOOOOO much more credit. It was an amazing story, had great acting, Slenderman looked bomb AF(his features look perfect), and the recording and video distortion was PERFECT. Honestly I can't believe it doesn't have a higher rating.

Positives: Fast forwarding. Negatives: 1. Opening credits Anchor Bay distributors, known for cheap. 2. More shaky camera - I thought that technique had run its course and died years ago. 3. Journalist investigates foreclosed or abandoned homes to show what people leave behind. Boring except of course there's one house that the inhabitants seem to have vanished. Well, that plot has been done many times. And, to borrow further there is the customary box of video tapes that our journalist (and, of course, tag-along camera man) get to investigate for clues. At least that goes a small way toward explaining why there's a camera following everyone around. 4. Now for the supposedly scary part - there are a few times (mostly toward the end of course) of three or so seconds (much longer and you'll break out laughing) where some guy with a piece of cloth over his head (see photo) stands in the background. That's it. Well, someone dies (gee, who would have guessed) but it's a pretty nondescript death. 5. End of story. Not scary unless you're six. Recent alternative, if looking for someone dying, is "Faults" - a bit more intelligent.

First of all to the moron who wants to spell stupid (s-t-o-o-p-i-d), get a life (or dictionary). Don't whine to people in your review about (sic) stoopid editing and then--for whatever reason--turn around and misspell the word. But I digress. I found "Always Watching" on On-Demand. Since it didn't cost an arm and a leg (only $3.99), I thought I'd give it a try. As it began, it tended to drag just a little bit, and the viewer may think "here we go again" with the found footage premise, which has just about been beaten to death along with that proverbial horse. It seems a family has mysteriously disappeared and, rumour has it, they were driven away by a mysterious man soon to be known as "The Watcher." Trouble is, it seems this man only turns up on camera. Three journalists are given the task of going through many reels of film trying to find some connection and, viola, they find...something. As stated before, the found-footage genre is about as overdone as the Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Saw series. This one, which I think pays homage to "Sinister," is a cut above most. I thought the editing was what sold the picture for me. Again, this movie proves you don't have to have a screen awash with blood to scare people. In fact, I don't really know why this is rated R. It could have easily been PG- 13. Angus Scrimm (of "Phantasam" fame) make a brief appearance as a mentally disturbed patient. I thought "Always Watching" would make for a fun viewing for a sleep- over for ages 12 and up. Rated "R" for language. It's what you don't see that scares you. Recommended.

The title of the review speaks for itself. At this point the Found Film Footage genre is getting tired and old, only because these writers and directors aren't giving us anything we haven't seen already. They think that with the same scares, same annoying actors and same shaky camera with a whole new entity or monster will be a good idea. Wrong. There was nothing interesting about this film, except they thought it was a good idea. The special effects seem cheesy, but something tells me that's what they were going for, but it didn't work even if that were the case. Once again the characters were unlikable and that seems to be a recurring theme since The Blair Witch Project. You would think that a movie based upon the most popular creepypasta, Slenderman, would be a good thing. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. The film seems it would be good to those of a younger age, which this film is not targeted with, with it's R rating. The film could have easily been a PG-13. It might be good for a watch if your high, but I wouldn't recommend it regardless.

First thing about this movie that was a huge turnoff was the first person camcorder view. Who came up with this lame way of filming a movie? Who in real life walks around with a video recorder? I think a warning should be printed on the box stating that the entire movie is filmed using a video recorder. For those like myself can save the 4 dollars to rent this garbage. If I knew the movie was filmed this way I never would have rented it. Boring story over all. Terrible acting. Nothing about this movie made me want to suggest others see it. I couldn't wait for it to end. Only thing scary was how movie was filmed and the acting.

Did the creators of this movie just go, "We'll get permission to do a 'spinoff' of Marble Hornets, loosely 'borrow' their Slenderman-type villain's name and symbol, make a couple blink-and-you'll-miss-them references to the web series... and that way, we won't get too much crap for trying to make our own Slenderman found-footage move." Because that plan totally backfired. This is not a Marble Hornets story. They totally screwed up how the Operator works, and with the exception of one tiny reference to the Alex Kralie character, this movie has nothing to do with Marble Hornets canon. What would've been better is if they'd gotten Joe and Tim to write an actual Marble Hornets movie, and still kept Doug Jones as the Operator.

So I ran across two movies that seemed pretty similar; this and The Levenger Tapes. They're both found footage and I decided to go with this one first, after reading some reviews and seeing this also had a YouTube series, I figured it would be the better of the two. After watching them both, I highly recommend the Levenger Tapes over this. I found this pretty boring and started falling asleep at the end. This just didn't add anything new to the found footage genre. The whole "evil entity only visible through a camera" has already been done, so nothing exciting here. There's not really anything in particular that makes the movie awful, but nothing makes it entertaining either. Just overall boring with a played out premise.