Found Footage February Day 16 La Posesión De Altair 1974

Day 16

La Posesión De Altair 1974

Setting a film in the 70’s. Shot on 8mm film. Made in 2016

This was one hard mother to find, and one I was told is worth the purchase. So, I hunted down Cauldron video and purchased myself a copy. I have very high hopes for this. Especially as I was told a good deal of this films mood, atmosphere, spookiness comes from amazing sound design. Having recently replaced my headphones with a big upgrade in quality AND a schiit stack to power them, I’m all ears for this and looking forward to it.

For those who try hunting this one down by other means? It is not currently streaming, anywhere. There’s one version that’s cut up into chunks and void of subtitles, which works well if you speak Spanish, I unfortunately do not.

SO, if you sail the seas of alternative means of procuring films, I hope you find the subtitles for it, or maybe it’ll return to streaming some day.

Then again that could be an omen, a film so bad they removed it from the internet, and Amazon.

Or so good they had to keep it from gaining popularity. Who knows.

But we are geared up to find out. I am going in blind on this one, I know very little about the story other than what it suggest from the title itself, but for the sake of funsies, here’s the synopsis from the back:

When newlywed Altair claims to have found a way to communicate with God, she builds a black brick door in her bedroom, but her increasingly erratic behavior points to something more sinister. Her spiral is documented on the 8mm films shot by her husband and later found after their disappearance.

That…well that sounds pretty straight forward so. Yeah, alright party on. I got my drink, some snacks and headphones are on, let’s gooooo!

The Film

Well, when you start off with a black and white news footage detailing 4 missing people, a large fire that suddenly vanishes, and hearing what sounds like a roaring train and all hell breaking loose all in the same night. You either have a strong case of the opening a doorway to hell which promptly slams shut, or you accidentally created a time travel device by running your Altair 8800 directly next to your microwave as you were reheating left overs.

Laugh if you must, but Steins Gate is NO laughing matter, it could happen!

At any rate yes, we are given another view of the aftermath before the found footage begins. Which oddly enough for a change, they show us HOW the footage was recovered and even by a WHOM, a Dr. Conseco is seen fleeing the house and avoiding taking questions from a nosey reporter as he scurries off to his car carrying a large box full of 8mm film and a camera. On top of this we are told that they believe the married couple may have been being followed, as the husband was seeing recording all the time with their camera and seemed a bit…well edgy we’ll say.

With that It’s time to join the husband in our first recovered film reel! Meet Manuel. A recently married man looking to be a good guy and win some good guy points with his wife.

We will assume his hiding a gift for her and doing so is done purely out of love, and not out of earning good boy points to dig himself out of a problem brought on by his already not listening to her. It’s a fun scene though a bit awkward, as his idea of getting her to look for the gift he hid in the kitchen, is to act incredibly uninterested in his sweet wife and her being in a good mood, and just being a dickbag. Which he convincingly does.

The fact she isn’t telling him to take the banana out of his ass when he ignores her ‘Good morning’ and makes her get him a bowl of cereal, AND directs her to the bowls and the spoons. I mean that’s kinda cutting yourself out of a lot later dude. But again he is doing it for her eventual surprise and it damn well better be worth it otherwise the couch is in your future.

Well of course it’s worth it as she finds his hidden surprise box, which I am shocked stayed so sedated and quiet, as the contents of this box turned out to be a puppy!

Yes, a puppy. All is forgiven and forgotten because well, fuckin puppies man. They have that power.

It’s a nice couple of innocent shots as we get to know them a bit and damn man did they nail the 70’s look, like I really give them credit on that, their wedding photos are straight up looking just like my own parents photos did and it cracks me up.

I also am beginning to put together a theory on this couples problem. I believe it is a horny entity, and the film is not telling me otherwise. But hear me out.

So the couple is off to an unknown location for a nice couples outing, and while in the car, Manuel begins, filming his wifes pretty nice breast through her shirt. He is studying them for science, at least until she catches him doing so and calls him out for it. He tells her he is just testing the audio and totes not filming her mama milkies.

As she exits the car, we actually do get some funky audio beginning to pop up, some mild distortion which begins to slowly grow in intensity. As it does. We see a large gathering of birds begin to fly away, then circle and before you know it, they are all swarming and moving in a large singular pattern in the sky. It amazes our couple and as the audio begins to suddenly grow denser and more muffled, the film cuts out.

NEXT, we have a scene of them at home. Altair is sad because her friend won’t come out and hang out with her. Husbando is mildly sad about this, but he films his wife in her firm top and jeans that make me wonder why we don’t have them anymore, until I remember that some of those jeans could cut the circulation off to your lower half. As she ask him to please stop filming her he teasingly tells her he will stop. But only if she puts on her flight attendant uniform. Moments after that? Boom, their phone rings and when Altair answers, there’s no one there, The audio begins to waver and worble a bit as her husband comes over to say hello and try to listen on the phone, only for the call to disconnect.

TWO instances of some kind of activity, BOTH related with the horny. I’m not saying it’s a horny demon or entity. But I am saying you should consider the facts.

But fine, I shall keep that theory in the back of my pocket for now. Because now it’s party time people. We have a birthday party! Altair’s birthday in fact. And holy crap are they really going all out. We got party streamers, they are spinning the vinyl on some sweet speakers, people are drinking dated cans of beer and this looks straight up like a coke party.  However it is not, we DO have however the use of weed, so, somewhere out there. Someone might’ve brought the party powder.

It's a pretty nice party, we got some good tunes, and couples making out. Beautiful people wearing what they believed to be fashionable and not a major life regret. But it’s still a bit somber, Apparently Tere whom Altair called earlier, was her sister, and not her friendo. Though siblings can still be your best friend. Just not when they don’t show up to your own birthday.

I mean not like I noticed when my sister didn’t come to or celebrate my birthday let alone say anything to me on mine for 3 YEARS IN A ROW!!! But I digress. It’s a nice party, we are all here to have fun, hubby is doing his best to get his wife’s mind off of things. He even got her in the mood, on her birthday. To wear her stewardess attire before sexy time. Which he tried filming, but thankfully she is wise to his horny ways and she does use the fun line of there will be no recording allowed during the flight, and there WILL be turbulence. With that the camera goes out and they let their neighbors know the celebrating was just getting started.

But, the next morning, is another story. There is no smiles this morning. Instead it begins with tears. Which is never a good thing, believe me.

I have gone to bed in a good mood, girlfriend cuddling into me and everything feels fine, only to wake up the next day and they’re grumpy and when I act like things are fine, I am informed they aren’t fine. Sort of the same as working out an argument you had early with your partner, having some intimacy or the sex as they call it, feeling things are pretty okay now and all battles are stopped, only to find the next morning they are back to grumpy and being cold. When you ask hey what gives and they tell you ‘that doesn’t mean I’m not still upset, cuz I am”, or they look at you at say you are really dense. Women, am I right? Dense cakes are delicious and that is a compliment.

Yes I’m joking I wouldn’t use that cake line twice on someone.

Moving along.

Altair is filmed the following morning crying in bed. So of course husband feels the need to cram a camera in her face. Look up 8mm and super 8 cameras, you’ll see how subtle it is having one in your face.

She is telling us how she swore she had a very real and scary thing happen to her last night, but she swears it was real and that’s why it scared her. She saw someone standing at the foot of their bed, and she tells Manuel “They told me they were an angel.”. He tries comforting his poor wife, while still filming her because you totally want to replay this later on the tv. To his credit he does manage at least somewhat of a smile as he ask her if she remembers doing various sexual stuff the previous night. Which she tells him no each time, which makes her laugh.

And it was at this moment I began to feel vindicated for my horny theory, as they seemed to be getting flirty flirty, and all of a sudden. Once again! We have odd happenings going on. We suddenly hear loud thumping noises above them. Coming from the ceiling, and then the walls themselves!

They were not joking about the sound in this movie, it really is a beautiful beast all it’s own in this, and I love it. The audio is picking up what sounds very clearly like solid foot steps above them, which then suddenly shift to that of multiple thumps and thuds. As Manuel slowly eases toward their window with his wife, she opens the curtain. Each step they both take, it’s like a gift for your ears. The sounds are getting clearer and more intense. And as she opens the curtains. We see birds. Dozens of them flying once more over head, throwing themselves at the windows of the house, many of them on the ground dead, and there are even groups of birds, of all things, seeming to peck at and eat the bodies of their fellow birds.

It’s pretty damn creepy, not gonna lie,

Also. I am gonna point it out again, this happened for the couple. YET AGAIN. When being flirty dirty.

So again, I’m not saying it’s a horny entity, but I am saying if it sounds like horny, and looks like horny…

I mean come on!! It’s at LEAST possible.

Okay case in point, more evidence is presenting itself!

We have another entry of Altair being our camera operator as Manuel is hard at work on a project. His work is apparently in stop motion. Which is really cool, and also explains the recording I suppose as he’s a super tech nerd. She manages to get him on the floor and stand over her husband as he relaxes and enjoys his wife’s playfulness, She ask what he’d enjoy for lunch and he ask for a papaya, which actually does sound pretty nice, she teases how they don’t have any and he doesn’t like them, buuut. She will prepare him one if he goes out and buys it. He smirks and makes the remark “I look up and I see a papaya here.” She calls him gross, and I will keep my comments to myself.

However she quickly changes the subject as she pans the camera over his work space and ask him where he got this strange Pinocchio toy from. He told her he thought it was hers but she says it isn’t. Well he also isn’t claiming ownership of the toy. She actually gets concerned about this and ask him rather pointedly “Manuel, where did that toy come from?” he shrugs and I. I have a dirty mind, which I should apologize for, but I won’t.

As another horny teasing took place, so to it of course, do we get another creepy moment. This time as Altair is filming down over Manuel as he lays on the floor relaxing under her, we suddenly see a few drops of blood hit his cheek and nose.

Yes my first thought made me laugh like a damn kid when I thought what could the source of that be. But yes we quickly of course learn from Manuel that Altair is having a sudden nose blood, and not an angry uterus.

A few days later and his wife seems better, and in a good mood at least. As hubby is busy typing up I imagine a shooting script or some creative slash fic. His wife teases him giving him a cup of coffee and telling him to call their puppy Carlo. He ask why and she just insist he do so. So he does and claps his hands for the lil pupperoni. Sadly the doggo isn’t wearing a costume or cute hat. Instead it has what looks like ink or paint on the side of its mouth. Which makes his wife giggle. But instead of laughing it upsets Manuel. Who rushes off to their living room, only to discover that indeed yes. The dog DID get into his stop motion work and ruined his shots for that day. He starts calling the puppy a son of a bitch and hugs it a little too tight while trying the ancient “Do you understand?!” Technique of telling your puppy not to do something.  Confusing poor Carlo and making him cry.

Altair isn’t happy with this either but Manuel is set in his grumpiness. He tells the puppy to stop crying as he puts it outside and calls it a son of a bitch once more.

I called it at the beginning, guy is a bit of a dick bag.

I mean yeah, puppies gonna puppy, and lord knows I’ve lost things to them, and kittens. I had a cat chew through two gaming mice cables and it was, not fun. But I didn’t call them a cunt and shout about their mother being a whore.

Because it’s a damn cat man. Meow and shit.

Well that night things are not going any better. Carlo begins filming as his wife sleeps, staring out their window and we hear an audible whirring, like a generator. Which is concerning. I mean out where I live in the sticks, we hear the navy running night ops and doing low pass flyby’s all the time and it is really not fun when you are nearly asleep and suddenly hear a wobbling whirring engine you’ve never heard before hover then take off near your home. But they do it.

He's puzzled by this phenomenon and wakes his wife, asking her if she also hears this, or if it’s just him with demons in his ears or static feedback from the recorder. But she too also hears it, and is unsure what the deal is.

Adding to our mystery of course, later that night. Manuel is recording once more, as he discovers his wife is out of bed and…facing a wall, staring at it. Her face right up against it. Just standing there, happy as could be unmoved and not saying a thing.

He calls out to her though and thankfully she responds. Only she just stares at him and he tells her to come back to bed, not you know…what the hell are you doing crazy pants.

The next morning he’s filming her and she’s just staring up at the ceiling, slowly and creepily turning to stare at him when he says her name. it’s just…it’s creepy…man.

This movie is giving off some weird vibes and I dig it, but it’s also really. I don’t want to jump the gun, like I am really trying to stick with, well just the title alone I mean. It’s telling us this lady is going to end up under control of or possession of a bad spooky spirit. But it’s just funny. Like there are moments that make it looks almost like, maybe they are being spooked but not by demons, possibly a cult nearby? Or hell maybe aliens for all we know. But a loud machine type noise isn’t usually signs of ufo stuff in these things. It’s usually other stuff so I don’t know.

I dig the hell out of it, but yeah it’s just. It’s really good and I like the mystery.

So Manuel is obviously beginning to worry about his wife. She got out of bed and smiled oddly to him, kissed him and without a word went off. He discovers there is a lot of blood on their bed sheet and he goes to question his wife to ask if she’s okay. Only to discover she’s taking a dump. Well leaving a dump really, I mean why do they call it taking a dump? You aren’t taking it anywhere. You’re dropping off or leaving one.

Also I only assume she’s taking a sweaty shit, because he goes to open their bathroom door and finds the door locked. In my experience the bathroom door is almost always left open with the women I’ve dated in the past, and the only time we close the door, is when one of us is squeezing out some taco bell.

But she is not very responsive to him and when he ask her what’s going on, she just answers him very monotone and blankly “I am okay. I am fine.” Which if you believe that, then you are denser than I’ve been called, and much more than the most delicious cake.

Altair leaves for work though, and Manuel is busy as a stay at home loafer, but he has a job to do. Not stop motion thankfully. But he has a son of a bitch outside to recover.

And yes, that means Carlo the sweet pupper is missing, and no it does not mean we see a puppy corpse. We just have a missing doggo.  So I hope Manuel feels bad about putting the dog out last night. Especially when they have no fenced yard! I mean what the fuck dude. You just get pissy at your little puppy, toss it outside and go to bed for 8 hours, assuming the dog isn’t going to roam around a property with no fences, no gates, and a walkway straight up into the goddamn forest?

If you need to be told, fence in your yard for your dog, you shouldn’t have gotten one if you didn’t do this.

But Manuel has other problems to deal with, he’s received some boxes in their garage. Which were not there a few moments ago. But there they are, 4 boxes all nicely pushed together. Which makes whoever did that, the most stealthiest delivery person. Like seriously that is a talent right there.

Well between a now missing puppy, which used to make his wife happy, and four mystery boxes, and blood on their sheets, and a now oddly barely responding wife. Things are not going well for Manuel and he is facing some mounting problems. Which are only getting weirder.

As we see when he picks up his camera late that day and we seem him head down into the basement. Where we find, sitting on the dirty floor in the middle of the room, next to a stack of bricks. Altair. In her night gown, which is stained with blank paint, as is her hands and arms. Because she is painting these bricks black all over.

But again, she DID say earlier she was fine, everything is okay. So you know, obviously she’s just fine.

He ask her if this is something she is doing for school, or funsies, and she doesn’t answer him. She just ask him if there are any more, “So you DID order those boxes!” he proclaims, only for her to march off with more painted bricks simply telling him no, but she is building something.

That something is the start of a black door shaped wall in their bedroom.

Manuel, being a man with the attitude of “I am the man of this house” corners his wife, obstructing her from getting more bricks and demands answers, invoking the right of husband! Which is not a real thing, but some of us like to play pretend and some of you let us.

Well she relents and tells him, almost how you would a child. She is doing what ‘they’ told her to do.

She tells him she is not having those ‘weird’ dreams again, but that she is being visited. By angels. Plural, Angels. That they told her, “All I need to do is build a door of black bricks in my room, and another one in the basement.

Which makes perfect sense, you just don’t understand her art. Or she’s planning on opening a dimensional gateway. Who can say.

But when he laughs and tries to make sense of it, she isn’t helping or lowering the creepiness factor when she half smiles at him shaking her head telling her husband ‘You just don’t get it, do you? You really don’t understand.” Well not with that attitude obviously. The way she’s acting is genuinely unsettling, and to top it off, something incredibly odd is happening now too. Which is a first and pretty cool effect. Since we can’t have distortion on a super 8 film reel, we get instead…a very odd wobbly warping film effect. Which seems to only disform the background and sides of the camera image. But not Altair herself. Who remains oddly in focus. But everything else is, pretty damn wonky.

It really is trippy and I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on. I feel like I am being tugged in two different directions as to what could be going on, and every time I begin to settle on one possibility. Something happens and then I switch over to the OTHER possibility.

YES I AM INTO IT! But damnit movie make your mind up on this magical adventure.

Speaking of magical adventure Manuel is for sure on one. His once sweet and happy wife, is now barely responsive and talking to angels that want her to build a black door in their bedroom because you know, feng shui. It’s kind of funny and kind of sad. Like okay yes he’s documenting this because it’s so odd, he loves his wife and wants her to you know, return to the world of normal. But he’s also not going to tell her she can’t build an evil black brick doorway in their bedroom. 8 out of 10 times it’s best to listen to your partner when it comes to changing the look of your bedroom anyway. So now they sleep with a half done still wet paint, black brick doorway to hell against their wall.

We also still have no sign of poor Carlo. Which is deeply concerning and of course demons want their puppies too, why not. They’re cute as fuck. Cats are still better.

He knows things are bad when he wakes his sleeping wife to tell her he’s worried because he can’t find their dog, her puppy that she was super duper excited about and loved to hold and cuddle. Her response is to stare at him like “Bitch you woke me up for this?” and then she rolls over and goes back to sleep. Sleep is a precious thing so I understand. But I’d be out in the goddamn snow looking for my cat so, yeah.

While Altair decides to sleep and party with ‘angels’, Manuel is trekking through their unholy large forest of a backyard. Seriously I can’t look at this and see the logic of having a dog, and being shocked it went missing when you have no fenced in yard of any kind for it. They just let that dog go on an adventure anytime it went outside, they’re lucky it came back before at all.

But not this time. He traverses the forest and all he manages to find out there are black painted bricks around a tree. Hey those are black painted bricks surrounding a tree. But before he can say what the fuck why this be. He gets jumpscared by his dead eyes staring off into nothingness wife, whom is now standing in the woods wearing her night gown, barefoot and clutching the creepy Pinocchio doll she asked him about earlier. He politely ask his wife what in the name of Xenu is she doing out there, and she promptly farts and walks away without any sign of emotion, letting him take that stank bomb in.

As he tries to cope with how something so vile, rank and inhuman could manifest from the butthole of someone so sweet and otherwise polite. He chases her through the woods, calling out to her, but she is checked out and not giving a fuck. She takes off into the darkness of the forest and returns to her fairy people, or demon party. I have no idea, and neither does he.

So he does what any concerned husband would do when his wife goes wordlessly without explanation frolicking through the forest. He goes back to bed.

Now I’m not saying that was the best option or worst option. But I am saying it has been my experience. When a woman you are with is upset, and takes off, in a place no one should really take off. They wish to be left alone and get something out of their system, i.e. they want to be able to look at you and not punch you in the dick.

However this does not mean you walk off and return home, because you are still expected to stay close enough that they can see you and determine if they are in fact still wanting to punch you in the dick, or just fart on your pillow before you go to bed. Leaving them behind is only going to make them angry again. Much in the same way that if you had an argument and they are giving you the silent treatment which you likely earned. If you don’t make the gesture or offer to cuddle or subtly make amends, EVEN IF they don’t accept it. They will remind you later you did not try.

Women are a mysterious creature. And we are very dense. Like a sweet cake.

Well now in this situation. As Manuel returns home, leaving his wife to do whatever she wants in the dead of night in the middle of a forest without a cute puppy, he returns home. Only to find she is in bed. Well that’s good. But creepy as fucking hell.

She’s in bed yes. But when you realize she is laying face down in the pillow like a plank of wood. Completely unmoved by his voice and anything around her. Well yeah. Time to call a priest.

Or in this instance he is calling a friend to help with things. Which is a bit clever in the film for a turning point as Manuel is done with filming. He can’t take much more of it and its effecting both of them. With his friend here now, he’s asking him to take over filming things, it’s officially being labeled an investigation and he wants his friend to take part in it by recording ONLY the interesting things that happen around the house. Not his wife showering or shitting. He agrees and we now have a new camera man, allowing Manuel to be able to spend time with his wife while not pushing a camera in her face.

Not that she’d notice the camera as her attentions are solely fixed on her pieces of art, the black brick doors.  But we can tell when she’s not in their bedroom that she is indeed annoyed by his presence, and annoyed at her husband. Actually it’s not just kept specifically to these two men, it’s any time in general she is kept from the doorway she is now obsessed with.

It’s an interesting and sad descent seeing how she went from cheery and generally a good outgoing person, to just. Well yeah. Distant, creepy, catatonic and and either possessed or on her way to another dimension leaping through time righting wrongs.

We haven’t had some creepiness so it definitely is time to remind us this is a horror film, and we get it through another fun past time of this house. Only this time it’s with our new cameraman and friend, Callahan, not to be mistaken for a relative of Callahan auto.

It’s a good reference, I assure you.

At 4am on the dot the home phone is ringing and he’s quick to answer as politely as one could at 4am. Only to receive nothing but static once more. So he politely hangs up and walks off to continue filming Altair in her sleep. I wish I were joking but I am not. He really is filming her while she sleeps.

SO, the phone rings again. Only this time we, actually get a response. Which we really did not need all that much now that we’re getting one. There’s no audible voice. But there is a hell of a lot of things going on.

Between random tiny clicks that nearly sound like code, to then squealching distorted sounds of what could be screams and digital noise. It is all around unsettling and not the most pleasant thing you’d want to hear. Especially none stop at 4am, even when you leave the phone off the hook.

So it’s safe to say that Callahan is not enjoying himself. Between 4am static screaming calls, to his best friends wife sleeping then suddenly standing wide awake but completely void of…anything. And now to being outside with Manuel and hearing loud constant mechanical humming outside, and at night, and its keeping him awake to the point the man looks like he’s aged 10 years.

But his time, though short at this house, is about to get a lot worse. He begins roaming the house at night, filming the couple in their bed, then finding his way downstairs to the basement and staring at the large black brick wall door. We get a very nice and up close look at the stacked brick door and. It’s appropriately weird. But suddenly becomes creepy…er. At the bottom of this brick doorway, are what appear to be bits of mud, not necessarily foot prints either. But. Well its hard to say honestly. It looks like there could have been foot steps but, if they were, it’s not of the human variety. But we don’t get to linger on that for too long as out of nowhere Callahan is greeted by a teleported Altair. Standing directly in front of the black brick door. With no idea how the hell she got down there with him, let alone past him unnoticed in the two seconds it took him to go from turning to the doorway to facing the black brick wall.

He calls out to her but she is not hearing him, or just doesn’t care.

Instead of responding to him, she’s reaching out to the bricks, touching them and, as she stomps her foot into the ground twice. Suddenly the bricks audibly tighten and push back into the wall. Callahan is rightfully pissing himself, and it’s deserved. Especially when Altair begins laughing a slowly turns to face him, seeming to back up and vanish into the wall. The house begins to shake and Callahan immediately and comically begins the best sound decision anyone could make in that instance. “Fuck this, fuck you and fuck Manuel. Fuck you for making me come here, fuck you for being assholes” This man is, not having it and he’s even taking the camera with him. As payment for those two being assholes having him stay in their house and inviting this freaky shit into his life.

Does he die? No. Do aliens suck him up into space? No thankfully. Do demons pull out his spark plugs or trash his means of escape? Nope! The man is alive, well and on the road to freedom!

Of course he isn’t! No one gets out of this free!

Just as Callahan is riding the road to freedom, he stops and picks up the camera seeing something he can’t believe. That something as it turns out. Is Carlo. Wondering down the street and headed toward his home. But something is a bit, off.

Callahan against his better wishes is going back to the house of torment. Returning Carlo to Manuel, who was sleeping the sleep of peaceful kings. Until Callahan woke him up to show him both the doggo and what he recorded of his wife.

What is off about Carlo? He’s still the same pupperoni and a good boy. But he’s, aged.

Somehow, this little pooch, went from being two weeks old, to almost 5 months, hell maybe a year. It’s a huge difference and I’d even go as far as to say this could be a dog used from the same parents, it matches the puppy pretty damn closely.

Manuel is not convinced this is Carlo though. At least until Callahan calls the dogs name and, sure enough the dog responds.

But its not ending there.

Even with the return of possible Carlo, we are getting another phone call, which Callahan thankfully is recording. Because nothing happens!!

Its another silent phonecall that steadily, slowly builds static and again. What sounds like low beeping, followed by intense growing digital noise and screaming static. Which of course Manuel hears and cusses out whoever or whatever it is doing this, because well, it helps.

I mean if Micah, the dumbest man alive in Paranormal Activity, well…no longer alive. Can talk to demons and tell them he’s going to kick their ass, and how no demon is going to mess with his lady, because he’s the king of his castle. I mean apparently it does help some people feel better about their situation by giving powerful beings the finger.

But there is a fine line between say. Having a knife fight with a super human you know you’ll lose, but still looking and feeling badass. Versus giving the finger to a demon before it repeatedly shoves your own fist up your ass.

SO

With all this now, what more could possibly go wrong? I mean at this point what the hell could go right. A demon could fly down on a space ship with five alien friends and say “Hey, at least you got your health!” and that would still be pure nightmare fuel. This film is still wavering on its what is or isn’t at play here but I love it. The atmosphere, the story. It’s giving off strong Exorcist vibes and I really love that.

At this point I genuinely do feel my sliding scale is more pointed toward aliens. With a side of demons.

I mean lets look at what we have here.

Digital disturbances are related to both demon and alien encounters.

Animals acting up and getting funky, also a shared combination.

The strange behavior and comatose like actions of a person. Possession possible, yes. Aliens not…especially.

But one thing definitely not demon, is the whirring mechanical noises, the humming, the static phone calls with morse code. If demons want to scream at you, they’ll do it. They don’t need to be nerds and adjust their glasses while sending out ‘your mother sucks cocks in hell’ in morse code.

But the way this movie is going. It really likes balancing itself on that fine edge of leaning one way, or the other.

It really is hard to glide a piece of paper over the edge of a straight razor without cutting it, and if this film were poorly done we’d not be so invested to find out. But everything about this so far has absolutely been well done and handled. I don’t even mind the fact they decided to add their own spooky score to the film. It’s oddly fitting though and it makes it feel like a movie done in in a found footage format, versus watching a found footage film. It works well and just adds to the overall feel.

But anyway, the movie. We got some serious shit headed our way and just when I thought I knew what the hell is going on, things are going upside down and all around.

Because now, the elusive sister, Tere is contacting Manuel and she has some family history to share with her brother in law.

This, is the story of Pablo.

Apparently, when Altair was very young. She talked all the time about wanting a baby brother, and how she looked forward to having one. Sure enough their parents ended up having a third child and it was indeed, a boy. Pablo. Altair spent all of her time with him, cleaned him looked after him, fed him played with him, and one of his favorite toys? Just so happened to be a wooden Pinocchio toy. The same one in their home right now that none of them know how it got there, or who it belonged too. Then one night Altair woke everyone screaming from a dream. She began crying and screaming that Pablo was gone, The family reassured her that everything was chill and he was totally cool hanging out in his crib.

Only he wasn’t Pablo was indeed MIA.

They searched and nothing came of it, no one in their family ever found him or even a clue as to what happened to him. On top of this? She was also having dreams back then. Of Angels. Their family ended up having Altair scene by a specialist and, per her parents instructions. They were to never mention Pablo again. This is why she never told her husbando about having a brother.

SO. We definitely have reason to believe this is absolutely freaking aliens.

Unless she wanted a brother so badly a demon made a deal with the kid and then took it, only to now come back for what’s owed.

I DON’T KNOW MAN! I’M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT!!

On one hand it feels very obvious, and on the other hand it likes to toy with your mind!

But as I said, we have some more things about to happen too…

After talking to Tere about her sister and missing baby Pablo, they’re headed back home, only to stop outside the garage because, there’s something laying in the garage.

Now.

Even though WE can CLEARLY see what the hell it is, some how, for some reason. Manuel can’t make out what it is. Of course yes, it IS what we think it is, and can clearly see. Poor quickly aged Carlo is laying motionless in the garage. But it’s a lot worse than that. Manuel just stares at the dog, finally dropping to his knees unable to cope with what he see’s. Callahan is racing over with the camera at the ready, only to capture what appears to be the dogs body, with its head…crushed…caved in…carved off. It’s pretty gross but hard to make out exactly, and good on them for that.

But we’re just getting started.

Callahan abandons his grieving friend to head into the house. When he enters, the living room furniture is toppled over. It looks like everything was just flipped back. The living room table is face down on the ground, legs up. The television is playing static. Lights are flickering and the floors…the floors haven’t been swept in days!!

Oh also Altair is sitting at the dinner table, staring at the table. With a carving knife stabbed into the table. Also the table is carved with…a lot of things.

I sadly am unable to translate it, but there is a LOT of random sentences written out and, again the knife is stabbed into the table. So you know. That could be a concern. But the fact there is no blood on the knife is, also something, which means she didn’t kill the dog maybe? We shall see…

As for now though, Callahan is trying to get Altair out of her blank state. Which is about as affective as a parent asking their kid something only to find out they have their earbuds on.

Only your kid doesn’t suddenly reach out and grab at you while remaining close eyed and scary at the table. Which she does, and freaks the man out of his pants. Figuratively.

On top of all this, as Manuel races into the room and hugs his wife. The camera is once again warbling and I love it. The fact they shot this almost entirely on a super 8mm camera is great, and using this as your effect just, it really sells it and we are BACK AGAIN TO IS THIS POSSESSION?!

Honestly I’d really love it if this film or another was brave enough to bring demons and aliens together for the fight of the century. I mean think about it. A demon summoned to earth the same night of an alien abduction. It’s got GOLD written all over it. GOLD!!

Unlike this films current moment as we now have Callahan back to his original plan of getting the hell out of dodge and wishing his friends the best.

However Manuel is not wanting to let his friend leave them. He needs the man, and we did hear in the beginning that 4 people went missing so, he’s gotta round the group to 3, not sure who the 4th will be however. Maybe Tere.

It’s a funny moment but also sad. Mostly funny because Callahan flat out tells him to get a damn priest to perform an exorcism. Which makes sense, and it’s a good friend move, like seriously. You invite me to your place to film your wife, I tell you she’s acting possessed and though I’m thankful this wasn’t some cuckhold thing or three way invitation, I am still deeply concerned your wife may have killed your dog, which mysteriously aged, your house is making weird ass noises, A brick wall sucked your wife into it and now your house has demons. Get a priest, or get fucked.

It makes sense, I love it, and its also sad that Manuel understand this, but doesn’t want to do it or admit his wife could BE inhabited by a demon raiding party. But he just doesn’t want his friend gone. So does he stay?

Of course he does. Why? What the hell would make him stay?

The power of please. Manuel said please, and his friend gave in.

Well Manuel might not be willing to grab a priest and beg for an exorcism. But he is at least getting a man of science., not just any man of science either. It seems Tere is coming over and bringing the same doctor who treated Altair as a child to forget her brother. Dr. Conseco.

It’s not a priest but hey, it’s something so. Science help us all.

The good doctor sits down at the table where Altair is still creepily seated and politely ask if she remembers him what so ever. Of course she is none responsive still so what do you expect? He tries asking politely once more before suddenly slamming his hand down on the table like someone doing their best Phoenix Wright OBJECTION, or someone about to declare that is the tastiest hamburger they’ve ever tasted.

She of course is not responding, or she remembers him and she’s playing the silent game.

Next the good doctor decides to tempt fate by having Tere move closer to her sister. Moving within stabbing and biting radius. Still nothing. So she is asked to put her sisters hands up on the table. Still nothing.

His work is done. Here.

Seriously that’s it. The doctor calls it a day, the bill Is in the mail, and he’ll be back tomorrow to help her.

The groups reaction, is the same as when I tell them it’s going to rain, and they ask how I know, so I tell them to look at the leaves on the trees “See? The leaves on the tree are turned upside down. They’re thirsty so, it’s going to rain”

Yes I have said that to people, and yes it sounds weird as hell. But it does end up raining so. Not demon powers, just weird shit I know. And now you know.

Manuel is less than pleased by this and can’t believe they all sat there waiting for a cure, only to have him play put your hands on the table and say goodnight see ya tomorrow. But he’s the man in charge apparently. He tells them to keep their shit together, pucker their holes and he will return tomorrow. For now just keep watch over Altair and he’ll do actual medical work tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Will they make it to tomorrow? Well it’s kinda doubtful since NOW we have a house full of 4 people.

Tere is indeed staying behind and she’s helping clean the house, while Altair is put to bed and made to rest while Manuel, Callahan, and Tere play card games. This can only go horribly from this point on.

And it does!

We have the group worried and getting up as they hear Altair laughing, or crying, maybe both. So we get our trusty camera and head to the bedroom which is looking very incredibly creepy. There’s red lights streaming from the windows and she is on her knees facing the brick door she built for communicating with god. She’s clearly giggling and as Manuel moves to enter the room, the door slams shut by unseen forces right in his face. Place your bets folks!

With that they begin pounding on the door until at long last the door gives way and pops open. Only now, Altair isn’t in the bedroom. It’s completely empty. Everyone is at a loss for words and begins searching the entire room, leading them eventually to the one place it looks like none of them want to go. The basement, to the other brick door.

Needless to say this is getting good, and pretty creepy. Surprisingly though we still have a bit of movie to go so. Buckle up.

What should our group find on their descent into the basement? Well a very creepily presented and covered on the ground by a white sheet figure. When the sheet is cautiously pulled back? We see Altair, on all fours, her body a few inches from touching the ground. It’s actually a bit unsettling and I love it.

How she got down there, who knows. But she’s faced toward the brick door and once again unresponsive. Manuel moves over to her and tries to sit her up. THAT gets a reaction out of her! Finally SOMETHING does.

She throws her head back and we clearly see she is. Not having a good time any longer. Her eyes are covered in large trails of blood, she’s screaming at Manuel and punching him “GET OFF ME!”, but as soon as she realizes its him she stops. It’s really a hell of a moment in the film, not just the scariness, but seeing her actually react in a way that’s for once like her old self and not how she’d become over the course of a few days.

Later the recording begins again with Manuel in the bathroom talking to his wife, and she begins to sob, telling him she doesn’t want to dream of her angels anymore. She doesn’t want to see them again ever. Apparently, this last time when she ‘went’ with them. They told her that god wants to have a baby with her, which immediately for anyone not currently in a cult and hearing that, should be highly concerning.

Which she was. They told her to chill out and relax, it’s all good, but she said one of the angels stepped in front of her, put their palm on her face, and covered her eyes with its fingers. She couldn’t scream, run or react, but then she felt her clothes being removed and, we can pretty much fill in the blanks from there.

Just when I thought the film was winding down it just amps right back up and we are BACK. AT. The. GUESSING. TABLE!

It’s insane, it should be frustrating but the whole time, the whole damn time it hasn’t been. It’s just adding more and more on top of the film and I am honestly praying now that the film doesn’t botch the ending after all this build up.

But there’s more comin pal. LOTS more.

The next morning everyone is thankful to be alive, and worried even more about poor Altair, especially now that she’s, well. Thankfully acting like herself again, but also worried about the intensity of these events increasing both around them and to Altair. A morning of normalcy would be nice for a change. So would a breakfast with cereal. But NOPE! Instead we get an Altair stumbling into the kitchen before lurching her head forward and spitting out vomit like she’s showing off.

Is it morning sickness from aliens? Is it Demon baby clawing? Who the hell knows I’m DONE guessing!

But thank the maker, here comes the Doctor to give us the good news! The man is a man of his word and he has returned and is ready to help out!

Actually no he is not really. He is angry, concerned seems incredibly off. He informs Manuel that even though he said yesterday he will treat Altair, he informs him today that she is beyond his treatments now, and though this goes against everything with his ethics and beliefs. He is going to give something to Manuel. Something that could cost people their jobs, their lives, and he is to share it with no one. NO. ONE.

Of course Manuel says after hearing this, as Callahan has the camera inches from the doctors face, “What is in the envelope? What is it you gave me?”, the doc looks at him like ‘Bitch are you for real? I JUST TOLD YOU TELL NO ONE!” He reiterates his point that this is strictly YOUR EYES ONLY!. Manuel nods, says he understands, and ask him again “So what is it?”

Seriously bitch, are you for real???

Once it’s properly explained to Manuel what it means when someone says your eyes only, share with no one, this isn’t for the world to hear or see, people could lose their lives for this and their jobs. The doctor orders Callahan to remove the roll of film from his camera and give it to him. He is not messing around about the ‘this never happened’ feel of handing this package to Manuel.

So Manuel invites Callahan into the living room to listen with him to what was in the package. What was it? A tape. More specifically a mix tape. But no not really. Though that would’ve been fun. Actually it’s a recording from the doctors session with Altair after the disappearance of her brother Pablo. In this she is asked about her dreams, she tells him she was visited by angels, and that these angels told her they were taking Pablo with them to Heaven. But they told her, they would be back. They would come back to play with her and the others. The doctor asked who and she told him…4 of us. When the doctor asked her who specifically she meant. Young Altair began to giggle and laugh, and our audio tape ends. With a very deeply concerned Manuel, who looks like he’s putting together in his head what’s happening, and how many of them there are in that house. So he’s decided it’s time to get out of here.

He goes to check on his wife, whom Tere said was throwing up in the bathroom earlier. Without hesitation or concern Manuel opens the bathroom door, and with even scarier LESS hesitation, Callahan follows right behind Manuel.

But Altair isn’t throwing up anymore. She’s sitting in their large bath tub, in her night gown, with blood on her hands from her coochie.

Manuel is actually scared now and is done with all this shit. He’s picking her up and asking Tere to help him by opening the car door and getting them the hell out of crazy house. The phone begins ringing and Manuel is out of fucks to give. The group is running for the door and Callahan actually does the right thing. He leaves the camera in the house, grabs the keys to the car and bolts out the door.

What we get is our answer at long last. As we see the film begin to go wobbly and morphing once more. Lights are flickering in the house until they burn out, and then. Outside we see a sudden and bright orange light. Yep. Aliens bro. Aliens!

The group have abandoned their plan of driving away as a giant ship will do that to your strength of will. They run back into the house, and Callahan once more finds himself the carrier of the camera. Everyone is bolting around the house and eventually they all find themselves collectively in the basement. Which is totally save.

Until it isn’t! Of course it isn’t safe, There’s goddamn aliens outside, and his crazy ass wife build a door out of bricks to talk to God. So yeah, not the best room to pop into.

Needless to say this indeed does not go well. Soon there is rumbling and shaking. We hear loud humming and in a flurry of motion. Everyone begins to flee, just then remembering there is a black brick door which is coming to life. Unfortunately for Callahan, he is stuck in the basement. Fortunately for him though, Manuel and Tere got out the basement door back upstairs, and even as we hear what sounds like a very violent encounter for those two. At least Callahan is in one piece and not up there dealing with that shit.

Instead he has to deal with a rather well done creepy moment as he sets the camera down on the stairway to catch his breath and take a moment. In that moment, in the background. We begin to see a fuzzy lengthy shape. It’s purposely difficult to make out, as the alien is covered mostly in a form of static. It’s watching Callahan before backing up and vanishing once more.

Callahan tries the door out of the basement once more thankfully to find it working this time and he heads off into the woods.

Alone and afraid, but thankfully not naked or probed. Callahan is outside and roaming. There is a light on the side of the camera providing him somewhat of a guide through the woods. Like other films before it, we are in for a visual treat of running, panting, glimpses of trees and that’s about all. But thankfully not really. This film is done holding back.

As he roams, calling out for his friends, Callahan happens to find at least one of them. Altair. Who is sitting in the woods on the ground. As he approaches her we see that she is…digging at her coochy again. Could she…no. Maybe?

Is this our first case.

Our first proof of evidence in these films?

Where someone, actually is using my long time advice of, if you are in mortal danger facing demons, ghost, aliens, rich white men with ritualistic daggers. Just stop, whip it out and start clam jamming or knuckle pumping your dick for all its worth?!

No. Unfortunately.

She just has problems down there, like you know, carrying an alien baby.

But she thankfully has everything well in hand, as we soon see. As Callahan is more than happy to keep filming a pantless Altair like a creep. We see Altair look up and scream, but as she screams. We hear another scream. A high pitched inhuman scream of a child. Yep, she’s in the process of birthing an alien baby. Which she is trying to stop from happening. She begins punching her belly like a kid with a large balloon in hand until he stops her. They get up and start walking only for her to get further away from him, wobbling and eventually falling back down to the ground. Though this time when she does, she’s going to begin her final act and magic trick by reaching into her lady pit to pull out and hold like the mighty Excalibur above her head…a stick. Part of a branch…thing. Why? Well glad you asked. She’s reinacting a scene from The Exorcist and going to town stabbing her cooter with it.

She got herself some hard wood and its pound town time as she’s performing the most brutal self destructive completely wrong abortion on herself. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending how you look at it. She is stopped mid poking by Callahan. Who takes the wood away from her and tosses it. But this does not stop her from digging for crotch berries. Oh no. We need to visually see that she accomplished her task. Apparently.

So we get to see her hands appearing and disappearing from Crotchlandia, each time coated in blood, until at long last it looks like she’s holding a hand full of grape jelly. Did she managed to kill the alien human hybrid Starchild? Don’t know.

Because the next thing we see, and in a genuinely good jump scare no less, is a large alien hand flung over Altairs face, another one gripping her head and tugging it back. Two lengthy forms ascend onto her and Callahan is running the hell away at full speed. But not for long. We soon hear the screams of Manuel and Tere in the distance, and as Callahan turns to try and find his friends to save them. The aliens decide to help out in a much bigger and better way. We are greeted to one of the cooler alien shots I’ve seen in a while. We have an orange beam of light in the forest. Coming from underneath a flying saucer, Its bottom looks like moving magma and it’s awesome. Into the air we spot Manuel, Tere, and Altair as they all cry out and are pulled up into the ship. Callahan embraces his favorite run bitch run defense and. Well yeah of course he doesn’t make it. He gets pulled up into the sky screaming, drops the camera and. That is where our film ends.

All four of them abducted by aliens, that took her little brother and came back for her just like they’d promised her.

The End

That was, a ride. Holy cow. So yeah, about that.

I am a little conflicted, not gonna lie.

Firstly, hats off to the people that made this. The title at face value is misleading, however it does fit given the state Altair was in with the beginning of these visions and her actions, until she realized what was happening. It seriously played its hand well at keeping you going one side then the other as far as thinking you had it figured out and then finally settling it for you.

The sound design was amazing. With headphones it was surreal and why they decided to do that, to put so much work into that specifically. I don’t know, but I am so grateful they did, as it really did create a whole other layer of creepy atmosphere. The sound played a huge part in both leading and misleading us along the way, and you could tell these people did their homework and bless them for that. They really did do a lot with their sound on this. They did a lot of editing and manipulating of a collection of different samples. They actually took sounds that were known to cause anxiety and fear in people, mixed them together, changed their speed and tone to a point it became something almost unrecognizable BUT still carried enough familiarity to elicit that feeling of dread and anxiety. They also did a weird fun mix of dubbing most of the films dialog as shooting on Super 8mm film was not the greatest for sound quality. So they redubbed a lot of it so we could hear everything going on, While at the same time purposely leaving in elements of the original dialog at specific moments during the film to add tension and unease. They also took things like the birds, nature. A lot of ‘normal’ sounds and amplified them, played it at different frequencies which, is really fucking clever of them, and also a nice trick. It’s like the difference between hearing a house fly buzzing around your home, and hearing the same fly through the audio of a documentary. It just sounds closer, more alien and overall again changes the tone of something normal into something so different and creepy, without needing to manipulate it.

I get why the film gets a lot of praise for that, I really do and I am a huge fan of this now.

Just like a good score can elevate or carry a film, proper sound design in a film can do the same and this one relied on both. But thankfully one more over than the other.

Hell the decision to film this in Super 8 was. That was a choice. I loved it though, it really worked in favor of the movie and really kept you from pinning down entirely what was going on with it. Without digital distortion and film suddenly jittering, it makes it harder to tell what’s going on. But when you have film actually being morphed and vibrated like it was, creating an oddly beautiful and chaotic play of focused foreground and distorted background. So much nicer than digital noise. It really was refreshing. I sincerely expected them to lose their shit at some point and just go balls out with digital nonsense but they didn’t. They didn’t manipulate the film with cgi to a point it looked comical or forced.

I really worried toward the end because I didn’t know if we’d end up seeing a huge cgi mess of a demon, or cgi mist shooting out of Altair’s body, or if we’d end up with a cgi extravaganza of aliens bopping around and staring unblinkingly into he camera. But they restrained themselves and kept the film grounded.

Which is the best part of this whole thing next to the sound. The effects they used, Normally in film when they try doing this, filming something old school. They’ll use a lot of filters, Which sure they look neat, but it just doesn’t give you that ‘feel’, just the look. This looked and felt real, Even when we do end up seeing the aliens and their ship. They both did not stand out. Somehow. I’m still trying to figure that one out. The aliens were really handled and shot nicely. It looked like men in suits of some kind, which they appropriately kept void of any feature, and with how quickly the camera pulled and moved we never get a very clear look at them, but with the layering and filter work they did, it just fit right into the film without looking like, you know. Having Harrison Force talk to and step on the tale of a visual abomination.

A small part of me really almost wanted them to keep the ship out of the film. Granted like I said, it does look very cool, and it’s neat seeing. It fit the film and it looked appropriate. But I still feel maybe they should’ve stuck with the beam of light, the bodies flying up sure keep that. But showing the ship eeeh. It doesn’t destroy the film or take away from it. But it just felt a little much and like the movie would’ve been just fine without it. Again riding that fine line of holding back and going overboard. Had they really gone all out the ship could’ve looked like shit. But they only gave it to us in glimpses, and it blended well into the film in the end I feel.

The acting was very well done, you got a feel for each of the characters, and even to a point that Manuel really felt like a man very much appropriate to the time. Which is both a compliment and also a bit of a criticism. The guy had his dick bag moments, but remembering my own parents, how they acted when we were young, the way they talked, and the home they grew up in as well. It fit. Again just very appropriate of the time it takes place, we’ll say that.

Right down to the pervy fun. Which I am not going to sit here and NOT get into. Yes its corny in these films to have at least one or two moments where the jokester or annoying douche with the camera is caught filming the girls ass or breast, followed by a snarky comment.

But in this, we got what felt like a very appropriate husband….using gods given technology to really appreciate his wife, and try to use it so he can capture some naughty times. And man did he really try. It’s just funny because it again has that feeling of the time.

I am not saying that the moment film became available to the public that meant everyone got horny and started making porn.

But I AM saying it is a FACT, that during the time of both 8mm, 16mm and vhs recording reached the hands of jane and dick the consumer, there was a rise in the distribution and filming of adult films as well as horror films. So. Do with that tidbit what you shall.

It was just funny because the actor really did capture a lot of that feeling of, not perving out, but just really experimenting with his camera in the same way people did when they first tried them out and got used to them. He had his work camera and his play camera, and the man definitely put both to use. We just can’t ignore the fact the man loved his wife and appreciated her physical beauty, in a way the camera and some of us viewing appreciated greatly.

Another fun bit with the camera I really enjoyed them putting into play, was the sudden ending and beginning of film. You could only capture roughly 3-5 minutes of film before it would need a new reel of film. It’s crazy but 50ft of film sounds and looks like a lot. But 50ft of film only captures about 3 minutes, depending the speed you record at. That was still a LOT back then and yeah you had to do some heavy splicing or carry a LOT of film. Which they even showed us that in the film and it was again a great touch.

When Manuel asked Callahan to begin filming, he showed him he had two drawers and a bag full of film. It looks at first glance like ‘Holy shit that’s a TON of movie’, but again in reality, it was likely enough to capture maybe 2 hours if that. It’s just crazy, and I love that the film did not forget this and used it. So it was nice having the differences even used in the film between seeing the film end because it ran out, and the difference of having them suddenly stop filming to begin filming a new scene on the same reel. It was a really nice touch.

The film was directed by Victor Dryere and the man deserves a lot of praise for this, he also wrote the film and was one of its producers, like other found footage directors he doesn’t have a large body of work YET, but he has had a hand in a lot of different areas behind the camera, The cast is much the same as with other found footage of better quality where they’ve all had a few films under their belts,  Diana Bovio was great as Altair in her transformation through out the film, Rolando Breme as Manuel was a good concerned, horny and sometimes impatient husband who came to his senses in the end, even if late. What little we saw of Blanca Alarcón as Tere was good, she really carried a mood that made sense as to the sister not really that close with her own, and our man with the camera to the end, and not a former or current employee of Tom Callahan’s Callahan auto parts. Guillermo Callahan AS…well Callahan. The guy was funny, believable, and a good friend to the end. If only Manuel had maybe listened to him, things could have gone a bit differently.

No, they would’ve gone just as horribly and we’d still enjoy the hell out of their misfortune.

I am glad this movie managed to pull itself from beginning middle and end without losing its hype. It built up a lot of promise and in the end it delivered. At least for me it did, and I would imagine a lot of you out there too. Maybe some people were expecting or hoping for demons, or a cult. But aliens worked well. Was really not expecting that until they hinted at the possibility, and I did get suckered in by the title of the movie making me feel safe and like this would be another demonic film. Man was I wrong, and proud to be.

Glad I purchased this and even happier having discovered this one. This whole month has been a treasure trove of better than expected experiences and I’ll be glad to walk away from this with knowing this film and others like it were made and well represented the best fruits of their labor from the found footage tree.

I will also be proud to walk away from reviewing these and recording them every damn day. But that’s a gripe for another time. Until tomorrow people, Try not to hire a doctor who plays patty cake with your spouse then walks off for a day, only to come back and give you a mix tape they made for you out of songs recorded off the radio. You’d be safer consulting WebMD. Which is not a good thing.