Evie is stuck caring for her dying mom while attempting to record her paranormal podcast with co-host Justin. They are sent a series of audio recordings from an anonymous email, and as Evie listens to the recordings over multiple days or weeks, odd things begin to happen around the house. When Justin and her reach the final recording, all hell will break loose.
A modern-day Paranormal Activity with a great gimmick. Unfortunately, terrible pacing and poor direction de-rail what could otherwise have been a worthy entry into acoustic horror. The cinematography and sound design are strong, but this flick splits its time up between our lead taking care of her near-death mom and recording her audio podcast. Her day-to-day duties involving her mom are uninteresting and most of the scary things that occur involve a water faucet turning itself on or her mom appearing to say prayers (which shouldn’t be possible considering her condition).
There are enough freaky or creepy moments here that a viewing (or a listen) isn’t a total waste. The audio recordings our protagonists are sent starting to slowly correlate to what’s going on with our lead actress is certainly concerning enough, and the final minutes of pure auditory chaos is pretty cool. As far as actors go, Adam DiMarco as Justin is the stand-out. He only ever appears as a voice but he fully and believably inhabits his role. This should have been exceptional, unfortunately it’s only average. See it in a theatre at matinee price or wait till you can stream it with headphones on.
3 STARS
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