Review of Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015) by The3Academysins — 11 Oct 2018

This movie is just kind of a run-of-the-mill found footage movie that hits every cloche horror note and executes the notes quite well. However, it never thinks outside the box and can be quite boring, especially if you like found footage movies and have seen a lot of them. A lot of the characters are really unlikable, and you stop caring about them halfway through the movie. A lot of the scares are lazy and uninspired, and it ties into Marble Hornets as an after thought. The beginning is never referenced again and only serves to lazily set up Slender Man as a villain. The first act is actually the strongest part of the movie. Learning the settings and the characters and the discovery of the Operator symbol is actually done quite well. The characters become really unlikable and static in the second act when the supernatural things start happening. The third act is almost so boring that you will be cheering when the characters finally bite the dust.

All in all, it is a pretty average scary movie. Nothing original or unique is brought to the table here. While it is LEAGUES ahead of Sony's 2018 Slender Man, it really lacks the ball busting terror of Marble Hornets on YouTube. If you have never seen the original Marble Hornets, check it out! A few film students with no budget make something that is way more memorable and scary than Always Watching.