There’s some tense runs through dark alleys, infected individuals who puke blood and gain black pupils, and plenty of mass panic over the violence in the streets.
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I say decent because, after so much boring and limited build-up, it’s refreshing that anything happens. It’s a clever tool and helps the story climb over some expositional hills.įinally, we get to the invasion of demons and it’s a decent thrill. Thankfully the directors of the Paz brothers take advantage of the Google Glass to pop-up chat windows, GPS, and videos. She’ll eventually take them off to have sex with some guy but, don’t worry, she’ll have them perfectly placed in the room so we can see everything. And so we’re stuck with her view throughout the film of eating apples and meeting hot guys with charming personalities but bland chemistry. There’s nothing special about Rachel past her dead boyfriend and her desire to either bring him back to life or find a new one (whichever happens first). She visits the sights, takes part in events, meets the locals, learns about the region, takes in a nightclub, and has a one-night-stand to get over her dead boyfriend. Before all that bad stuff, however, you have to sit through about an hour of her Jerusalem vacation which may or may not turn the film into a masquerading tourism campaign. The perky tourist girl Rachel (Yael Grobglas) just slaps them on, tries out a few features, and forgets about them when all the bad stuff goes down.
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Every found footage film always has to warp reality to keep our protagonists always carrying cameras in the most terrifying of situations. It’s really a shame that JeruZalem is one of the first found-footage horror movies to take advantage of the fad of Google Glass. I guess that initial vision of someone sprouting demon wings has to remain in your mind to keep you interested.
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It’s a precaution as the movie spends over an hour to slowly build up to the collapse of the world. We know it’s coming, as seen in an off-putting opening documentary we later learn was hidden away by the Vatican. JeruZalem is very much the film that spends so much time trying to weave the ease and mundane of tourists on vacation in Jerusalem before the inevitable demonic outbreak. One bit of writing advice I’ve heard from horror screenwriters was that something scary should happen every few pages. The attacks from the creatures is briefly effective, and things become exciting towards the end, but the dross you have to sit through to get to these moments makes it hardly worth your while. When the winged CGI-enhanced creatures come, their presence initially mistaken for a terrorist attack, they are seen and heard through a blur of ‘ohmigods’ and interruptive onscreen ‘webcam’ digital distractions – rock music, message alerts and ‘comedy’ adverts. The characters are stultifyingly stupid and irritating: giggling, horny, chirpy, shallow and banal. Waiting for the monsters to come is an excruciating experience.Īpart from the location, which is stunning and nicely shot, this is a trying film. Much more discerning is the myriad of grinning faces, gurning ‘hi’ to whoever is watching or indulging in some (always unfulfilled) casual sex with others equally vacuous.
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The big American curses of typical ‘f*** you, a*****e’ and ‘m*****-*****r’ are slung about relentlessly with little regard as to how offensive to the locals such expletives are – but hey, that’s okay, because the locals are portrayed as menial cretins. The technology is impressive, but the plaything of the two girls is banal and irritating in comparison.
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This is so reliant on that style that it plays like a computer game. The found footage genre takes a lot of criticism, but I think it is an entirely legitimate way of telling a story, if it’s done well. After all, they’re young – this is what they DO. After immediately mocking the superstitious locals, they make the acquaintance of Omar, a confidently westernised regional guide, after discovering their common interest is smoking weed. ‘You are stupid, but beautiful’ intones the sinister proprietor of the hotel at which three young travellers – Rachel (Yael Grobglas) and Sarah (Danielle Jadelyn) (who refer to each other as ‘bitch’) and Kevin (Yon Tumarkin), the young man they immediately pick up, his good looks and charm influencing the girls to change their plans and travel to Jerusalem - are staying. What immediately follows, however, is more scary. The opening scene from this Israeli film is quite frightening, depicting as it does an eerie, brutal exorcism.