Someone is a fan of shaky-cam (or just couldn't afford a steady cam). But not content with annoying the audience with shaky cam, nonsensical jump-cuts were added to not only make the audience nauseated, but annoyed as well. Half the movie is close-ups of people's faces and the other half of the movie is too dark to see anything. Very bad.The story itself is nothing special. I was looking forward to it because I learned all about "Ghost Month" in Taiwan. The 7th lunar month is when spirits from the netherworld can come and cause mischief in our world, thus all the burning stuff to placate those spirits. It was more annoying than scary, interesting, or suspenseful.

I originally gave this move a seven, but then changed my mind after having fallen asleep TWICE trying to watch this film.The movie began well enough: newlywed Americans in China enjoying the sights and sounds of the region. They get a little tipsy, have their guide drive them back to their resort only for the driver to become "lost" along the way. The driver looks for directions in the middle of the night and does not return. The couple goes to the little town and are haunted by the darkness, the voices, and the animals left out for sacrifice.Then they come; the moon demons(?), undead, "zombies"... whatever you call them they are scary. The couple come across a man, injured, along the road and decide to take him with them. The undead follow them to a small town and seek them out.All of this is interesting: dead people chasing down alive people to satisfy their hunger for fresh flesh (hence, the animals for sacrifice), a young couple who are lost and must depend upon each other, a protagonist in the group who'd rather deal you out to the undead in order to save his life... then it all goes to Hell.The movie lost it's way when the couple find a house where all of these people are just standing around. The couple then drink something, have sex, and wake up in cages. Now, they are sacrifices. I fell asleep here, twice... this sequence of events totally disrupted the viewing of this movie and ruined it for me.When I awoke, the girl was in a cave system (i.e., The Descent) and gets away, after seeing her husband become one of them.Up until the house scene, this movie had a lot of potential. It was whithered away by changing the action so abruptly.

Eduardo Sánchez, his name will always be remembered as the writer of Blair Witch Project. It was a hype it was frightening and scary even as no blood was used, still people watched under their bed for days after watching BWP. When the hype surrounding BWP was over all people involved in the project disappeared. Suddenly there was a new movie from Eduardo Sánchez after the failure BWP 2. Altered was the title but it flopped in some ways, still it was good. Now he deliver us this flick. Again in documentary style, you know, shaky and out of focus camera's. But this time the storyline is weak, some scene's are too long and be honest, we have seen it all before with all those remakes of Japanese ghost movies like The Grudge and others. It was never frightening, there isn't any blood, okay, used blood but no gore or anything else. When the driver disappears you immediately knows what his role is in the ghost world. I have seen better, more scary flicks about ghosts last year like End Of The Line, maybe Sánchez has reached the end of the line?

Well, I didn't read any reviews about this movie so as not to be negatively or positively affected. But 3 minutes into the film, I just couldn't make out anything. I even went to fetch my glasses because I thought I wasn't seeing clearly or something, but even that didn't help! The camera work was nauseating, it gave me a headache from all the eye twitching! I believe this movie's plot could have been played out much better because the story does have potential being a traditional legend and all. The initial scenes were colourful, nicely shot and very traditional but for the way the rest of the movie was shot, a huge NO no ... I rated it 5* just for the story and the initial scenes.