Another meta-horror movie. Have I said I've been watching meta horror movies? I've tried to, some aspect where they are trying to draw the audience in, but here is another one.
The gimmick is this is just some schlocky horror movie... but something else has been taped over it. A person addresses us, tells us he a murderer, shows us him murdering people, and wants to know what you think of it all. And he'll ask you because he followed you home from renting the movie.
Which relies on this being a media that could be taped over, this might work for VHS days. But for DVDs, not really. And for streaming, even less so... although you could do a gimmick whereby the person has hijacked the stream and showing something else? That might have legs actually...
Anyway, this is a British take on what reminded me on The Rise of Leslie Vernon... which was actually after this, so the British did it first! The psychopath actor is fine, but I couldn't help feeling "I'm just watching a movie" especially when he kept going on about "is this real or not?"
It looks like this did quite well on the indie film festival circuit, but it doesn't quite hold up nowadays.
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