Review:
The movie began in a very dark, bizarre way - showing a family of 4 being hanged from a tree behind their house. Somehow, it sets a serious sinister tone to the movie and boy was i in for a ride. The movie is quite well paced and the weirdness/scary/twisted started quite soon without dragging. It is about a writer, Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) who wanted to write a new book based on a murder in the house they they just moved in. Ellison deliberately bought the house in order to investigate further into the mystery of the murder and the disappearance of their youngest daughter. He stumble upon a box of old project and Super 8 films up in the attic and began to play the movies. The film depicted the murder of the family, as well as other families too and this make Ellison worked out and strangely after watching the film one by one, he began to experience some strange incidents at night. The story seems simple yet it isn't so straight forward and we as audience need to see the Super 8 film to get us thinking on what will happen next and what will happen to the movie character. Thus, it is truly engaging that we the viewers are eagerly anticipating what is going to happen every time Ellison pops another Super 8 tapes and view it. The whole movie is based solely on the individual performance of Ethan Hawke whom did brilliantly as Ellison Oswalt, a has-been famous writer who is trying to gain fame again but slowly drive to insanity and off the edge due to strange event and the brutality of the murder viewed from the film. Overall, this movie is an above average movie which i consider as similar par with Insidious with excellent music and the Super 8 projected sound, you will not hear it the same way again.
Verdict:
I give this a 4.5 star out of 5. Good storyline and best performance by Ethan Hawke. Scary -- not so much,twisted -- yea, will you remember this film after it ended -- definitely yes
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