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Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story - 2 out of 5
I don't remember exactly when I got into the Marble Hornets web series but I do remember that I stumbled upon it by complete accident not long after it began. I one day Googled if there were any films based on the Slender Man character and found this series. I found their story captivating and incredibly well produced. I'm not even really a fan of Slender Man but was still impressed with what I saw with this series--maybe I have a connection to the character in ways I'm not fully aware of because I ended up moving to a city where two young girls stabbed a third in order to proved the existence of the character. Granted, the stabbing happened not long after I moved...wait, did I bring him with me?!? Anyway, Marble Hornets...I like it. In 2015, this little web series ended up getting the movie treatment with Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story; a product that takes place within the same universe as the web series. I'm not exactly sure why I didn't watch this when it came out but for some reason I sat on it. All the month of Halloween (remember, Halloween is the entire month of October for me) I've been rewatching the web series and decided to finish it off with finally checking out the movie. It was...not that great.
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| "Found Footage" Horror: Thrill as you watch absolutely boring scenes that do nothing to the characters and the plot and exist only to pad the product out to feature length! |
A local news crew; reporter Sara (Alexandra Breckenridge), cameraman Milo (Chris Marquette) and field producer Charlie (Jake McDorman), are covering a story about home foreclosures when they come across a house of an entire family that just disappeared. When they find a box of camcorder tapes, they begin to investigate exactly what caused their disappearance and where they went. On the tapes, they discover that the family was being tormented by a tall, faceless man (Doug Jones) who could only be seen when a camera was on him. Milo quickly learns that this faceless man, called The Operator, is now showing up around him and has marked him. Scared, he, Sara, and Charlie flee in order to try and figure out what is happening and what The Operator wants with them.
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| "Hey, you guys wanna hang out? I was thinking about getting a pizza." |
The web series isn't perfect and has a lot of problems--some of which include some weak acting and a story that gets a little too convoluted for its own good. However, the series is still more of a win than it is a loss as it has some genuinely terrifying moments and does a great job of building a mystery around the concept of Slender Man. Always Watching doesn't come close to matching this intrigue and complexity and, instead, settles for complacency with a very generic "found footage" tale. With its larger budget and more resources behind it, this feature had the potential to take the spark the web series started and made a roaring fire of spectacle and terror but ultimately just delivered a smoldering flame that occasionally had a pop or two of interest.
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| There's a cool little Easter Egg for the web series above the gas pump there. |
One of the biggest hurdles I have with the "found footage" horror subgenre is the internal logic for filming everything. If the story either provides no reason or just offers up a "just because" as the answer to why the characters are filming everything, it instantly takes me out of the film and kills any possibility of suspension of disbelief. The web series had a reason as the entire story is an investigation so it is basically a documentary of sorts. Always Watching only offers a reason that makes sense as the second act starts. When the film begins, there is no reason why Milo is filming everything. I guess I'm supposed to believe that because he is a cameraman for the local news he is always filming but why exactly would he film the car ride over to a shooting location? This proved to be just another example of how lazy this subgenre can be. Once it is established that The Operator can only be seen through the lens of a camera the constant filming makes sense but am I really supposed to believe that this cameraman just likes filming himself work for no other reason than shits and giggles and the fact he seems way too dedicated to the piece of tech he works with for a living?
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| Everyone films themselves taking off their watch with their dogs. |
From a story perspective, the film is almost insultingly simplistic. There's nothing really complicated to it, the plot moves too fast and too often in a repetitive fashion, and it offers no real surprises as it feels like it is just going through the motions. It was incredibly disappointing to see this film contain a story with no real substance or character born from a web series that was absolutely soaked in a rich mythology built around this internet-created monster. The story is just another example, like the filming everything element, of how lazy "found footage" features can get as it feels like a completely hollow story that was produced all in the name of leaning too hard on a gimmick.
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| "Come on, guys. I said I was sorry. Please, let me back in." |
One thing the film did do well was some of the scares. The film is in no way as unnerving as the web series but it did lean into the subtle scares that made that series so memorable. The film did a cool job of working Slender Man The Operator into the background or during the moments where the characters are unaware that he is nearby and always watching (wait, that's the title!). However, this elements very rapidly gets repetitive and very much becomes a part of the wash, rinse, repeat nature of the story. After Milo realizes this well-dressed, faceless man is now his stalker, the gang basically hits the road. They arrive at a destination, set up cameras so the faceless one can't get the jump (or stand menacingly) on them, and then The Operator shows up and they leave for the next location. And it starts all over again. At one or two (or even three) points during this repetitive storytelling, you see The Operator appear in the background. This is cool at times because the product will work him in the scene in cool ways but the novelty and terror of it will wear off very quickly. To make matters worse, the film nearly universally relies on this formula for its scares so the movie quickly loses all potential for chills down the spine or the creeps.
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| Okay, that is cool and creepy. I will admit that. |
From a cast perspective, the film is wholly unremarkable. Sadly, most cast members in "found footage" films are not the best because the nature of the product isn't providing a lot of points for character growth or even real exploration of their condition and, instead, are just around to hold the camera and string together possibly creepy scenes. The cast isn't really doing too much as there's not much to really chew on so their performances are almost rendered null as they only get fleeting moments to act and spend most of their time scared. What's sad is when I saw Alexandra Breckenridge was in it I was genuinely excited. She is very talented and I enjoyed her greatly on The Walking Dead and American Horror Story but she was wasted in this film as she is nothing more than a woman to scream at the scary things and be lusted over by the creepy main character (More on that soon).
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| "The kids are calling it 'Marble Hornet-ing' and your kids are definitely doing it. More at 11." |
The writing of the characters is a mess as there are moments that makes you want to think they have some depth to it but these moments never pay off and only seem to exist to break up the formulaic moments I previously mentioned. For example, Sara has a problem with pills and this only is established at the beginning and comes into play once in the story. Nothing of consequence or substance comes as a result from this. Finally, the main character that we have to spend a majority of our time with is extremely unlikable and that only ends up making the product even harder to watch.
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| Maybe this is just the symbol of The Operator's shitty nu-metal band. |
Milo is the guy we spend most of the time with and he is kind of a disgusting dude. He has a thing for Sara and the story explains that they had a brief fling. Milo pretty much goes full stalker as he follows her around and films her. This element, while it makes for a main character that is completely repulsive and unsympathetic, does mean that his credibility can be called into question and create some internal conflict between the characters as the external conflict with The Operator plays out. This happens but, like so many things in the film, it feels superfluous and just like it's a plot device meant to kill some time until we can get to the next moment The Operator shows up. This film constantly feels like it wants to give these characters depth so that this movie has more going for it than just a hollow Slender Man story with "paint by numbers" scares but it also feels like it just doesn't want to or is completely incapable of really exploring that depth. Also, Milo has a dog in the film and never really acts that nice to his dog. Sorry, people who are shitty to animals are impossible to get behind in real life and in movies.
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| He definitely looks like the type to say, "Women just don't like nice guys." |
Maybe it was my Spidey-sense that kept me from watching this one sooner and waiting five years before checking it out but this one was fairly disappointing. It has some genuinely cool moments early in the story with The Operator and there are members of the cast who are clearly talented but were clearly wasted. Overall, Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story feels like a huge step down from the web series it was born from. All the complexity, nuance, atmosphere, and exploration that can be showcased in a single ten minute entry in that series is missing and replaced with an hour and a half of aiming for the lowest bar possible in this subgenre and pretty much offering up something that is just barely serviceable as a spooky watch.
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