Review #71: The Houses October Built (2014)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #19: The Houses October Built What to say about yet another found-footage movie? I'll say that of the found-footage I've seen so far this one had a better format than most: The footage looks believable, there's a good explanation for why they started recording it in the first place (as opposed to just happening to be filming everything that happens, like Cloverfield or Chronicle or whatever) and the first half of the film was fun and relatable. The second half of the movie (like basically all found-footage) is where it really falls into being just yet another found-footage movie. I don't know if it's generalized fatigue or just found-footage fatigue but I mentally checked out during most of the latter part of this film. I guess I didn't say what this is about? A group of friends decide to start a video project where they travel to haunted house attractions across the country (?) and ...