Simply awful.....

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I watched it for the third time today and I'm kind of wondering if this will be the last time I'll watch it again. Although I knew it was technically a bad movie for all the reasons you mentioned above (though I think Megan and Amy were good actresses, they just weren't given the best written material to work with), I still couldn't help but find it intriguing in the past. I found the mystery aspect of it to be fascinating (Who is Josh? What motivates him to do what he does? Will they ever catch him and find out what happened to the girls?) in the same way as the mystery in The Blair Witch Project.

Anyways, this time I just found it sleazy, gross, and disgusting. I've become a Christian since the last time I watched the movie. Maybe that has something to do with it, but I felt wrong this time and thought "Maybe I shouldn't be watching this" several times throughout the film. I also felt the same way with the Last House on the Left remake. People can say it's a warning film about the dangers of the Internet, but it seemed to me the director loved sensationalizing the sex lives of 14-year-olds and the gruesome, merciless torture just a bit too much. I found it exploitative and I'm discovering as I get older that I enjoy subtle horror movies with a bit of imagination a lot more.

It also feels just a bit too real for me. The few violent, gory movies I do like are from the '70s and '80s and they always feel just fictional enough so that you can easily separate them from reality. Though the scenes with dialogue in this movie are cheesy, poorly written, and poorly acted from the majority of the cast, the torture scenes feel like you're watching real footage of someone being hurt rather than a fake movie and I don't like that.

Burn, witch! Burn, witch! Burn! Burn! Burn!