Touted as "the scariest movie you'll ever hear," this atmospheric horror film about a podcaster investigating a series of mysterious audio recordings is incredibly effective at getting under your skin. Not unlike Paranormal Activity, it gets a lot of mileage out of its lo-fi and claustrophobic setup, just at that level of eeriness where you don't trust what's filling out the empty edges of the frame. Sounds scare me, and as someone who experiences the auditory hallucinatory hell of tinnitus, hyperacusis and misophonia (the unholy trinity) on a daily basis, the sound design had me dialed up, locked in and my paranoia run rampant. It's a simplistic concept that taps into a primal fear response, and I mean this in the best possible way, but I don't wish to experience it again.
3½ backwards messages out of 5
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