This belated French entry into the found-footage supernatural genre turns up on Netflix taking the very familiar Paranormal Activity template (intertitles announcing which night is playing, ominous soundtrack rumble, open doors with darkness beyond) and using it to little effect. With its evidently low budget, it makes an effort to employ the multi-camera set-up device to purposeful effect, but it is undone by very weak performances, although Anderi Indreies just about holds things together in the titular role, investigating the apparent possession of a young man following an opening Ouija board session that unsurprisingly goes wrong. Even references to other films, such as the arrival of the priest to the family home in a weak low-budget (presumed) homage to The Exorcist are hard to take seriously. It is hard to imagine why this film was attempted with nothing new to offer when even the original American film franchise has given up and gone away.
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