Bad Ben (2016)
Tom Riley thought he was getting the deal of a lifetime when he bought a house below market value at a Sheriff's sale. He invested every penny he had with the plan of flipping the home for a profit. Once he owned it, however, he noticed strange happenings, all of which were captured on 21 Surveillance Cameras located throughout the home inside and out. At first, he thought people were breaking in, but he soon realized he was dealing with something Paranormal.
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Don't bother wasting your time on this movie. Everything was just terrible.
Nigel Bach has done the impossible, to produce and star solo in the done to death found footage/haunted house genre and make itit rath enjoyable. As a genre, it won't do what it really should have done a few years ago and vanish, but, Bad Ben perhaps shows that there is still a little steam left in it. Bad Ben looks like it was made on a shoe string, and that is perhaps it's charm, Bach is incredibly likeable in the solo role, and has enough charisma to make the film rather enjoyable. Not bad at all. 6/10
Not remotely scary, creative, thoughtful, original. Any school child could have made this. No script; just one man talking to himself or on the phone to "someone else." No special or visual effects.
I really like this film - it is very well thought out in camera deployment, by one person (with perhaps some uncredited off-camera help for a scene or two), S. Soma's review covers most of my thoughts. Having worked in the security biz, I can technically dismantle camera and mic usage, but by establishing specific camera locations, Mr. Bach did a great job of mimiciking them - it may have all been shot with a single smartphone, but looks like a couple other cameras may have been employed. (Night vision is usually achieved with infrared LEDs for illumination; it looks green, but not that green, and certainly no purple.)Very well done! After Primer, this is second on my list of best microbudget flicks.