The Collingswood Story

agressively medicore. nothing really happens until the end and even that is just whatever. love this screen life genre but this is a dud.

I went into this film expecting another run-off-the-mill found footage and came away a bit creeped out. This is an effectively spooky and inventive early found footage set on Halloween season. I have no idea that computer screen horror started this early, so it gets a bonus point for being ahead of its time. So much patience in developing the atmosphere and the brooding danger. I wasn't too interested at first since it just seems like people talking via webcam and the desktop interface looks so ancient, but then it starts to lull me into the conspiracy theory and things keep getting compelling and also scarier. It's atmospheric and unsettling pretty much the entire way through and the scares are effective and don't feel cheap in the way found footage scares usually feel. The mediocre cam quality and subtle eerie sounds add a whole new level of unease and terror. Solid Halloween season watch.