
The most terrifying images are the ones that are real.
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The Good News: There was actually a lot to like about this one. One of the best features is that there's just a literal ton of encounters with the ghost, and all of them are handled well enough to earn some great moments. One of the best is the first dark-room encounter, which is brilliant. From the darkened location to the strange action with the ghost, it makes for some really enjoyable times and comes off really well. The encounter deeper into the film with the ghost in the boardroom is another stand-out, due to the fantastic innovation of the Polaroid camera allowing for some suspense to be had with the waiting for the photo results to come about, and the interaction that happens once the revelation has occurred is really good. Another rather good one is an encounter where, after a scare on the phone, one rushes home to the other and finds them in a chair opposite the door, leading to a fantastic scare that is quite solid and makes the sequence enjoyable. Perhaps the best, though, is the flashing-camera encounter, which is all-around awesome. From the sheer inability to see anything, with only the flashing camera to provide any light in brief spurts, and the sounds of what's going on making it so fun and creepy. It's also quite long and intense, which makes it stand-out a little more than the quick-shot appearances throughout the beginning phases. It works so well that it's featured in another scene, mainly the set-up before the final confrontation. Using it again, only this time combined with the same overall effect of the boardroom where it's goal is to find the ghost hiding amongst the shadows, works well in it's favor and makes those scenes quite fun. The aforementioned quick-cut scenes are also are pretty good, with their being a fantastic collection of banging noises off in the distance, ailing cries throughout the house and different pop-ups everywhere, from a great appearance on a train that results in a fun freak-out to a really creepy scene with the ghost appearing in photos all across the apartment. As there's more throughout the film, these are all quite fun and really worthwhile. As well, there's an incredibly fun and enjoyable encounter late in the film through an attack at the house, which has a lot of good points about it. From the creepy ghost action to the great setting and what it signifies for what has happened so far, it's a great scene and really makes a great lasting impression. Even the early car accident here with the ghost appearing in the middle of the road and causing a severe accident comes across as really nice here, being a nice shock jump and done early in the film as well. The last plus is the conversation at the magazine, which is quite fun, spilling the basis for the film's mystery and getting it all out in the open with the discussion of what's going on, it makes for some really good times and the photographs along the edges aren't that bad at all. These here all work to make this one quite enjoyable.
The Bad News: There oddly wasn't a whole lot really wrong with this one. One of the biggest issues is an encounter in a friend's apartment late in the film following an attack being way too short for what it was intended to do. This here just doesn't really do much to make it feel special, and just really has a feel to it that should've been had it been given time to really do something special.
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