OK so I realise "it's only a film" BUT I have to pick up on one tiny little point, that being that this must be one of the worst selling Apps in the history of Apps.
Allow me to explain.
Five Students download it and quickly weird stuff begins to happen, one by one they'll killed off yet nothing is seen as odd or mysterious by the local Constabulary or Community as whole. Not only that, but it seems it is only these five who have downloaded the App in the ENTIRE WORLD!!
Think about it. Nothing on the news or online or in the papers about MILLIONS of people dying or being killed( Millions on top of the standard numbers who die daily or weekly...etc). Nothing that the Police recognise as a danger - so clearly this is a completely isolated incident, specific to this town and or district.
I mean 'Scream' or 'Halloween', 'Friday the 13th', 'Nightmare on Elm Street' etc etc those are all understandable as isolated incidents, localised. But when they move the premise to Online or even to Mobile Phone Apps then the writers have to become a bit more creative, these things are not isolated or localised, we can all access Websites and Apps from all over the world and an App seemingly as useful as this one would be in high demand the World over...
And this was where the film lost me i'm afraid. I watched it, it was a typical Teen horror akin to the films I mentioned previously, nothing special, nothing clever...Well, clearly it wasn't clever, we had a case of a localised App. Obviously the Demon involved isn't so powerful as to be Omnipresent.
Allow me to explain.
Five Students download it and quickly weird stuff begins to happen, one by one they'll killed off yet nothing is seen as odd or mysterious by the local Constabulary or Community as whole. Not only that, but it seems it is only these five who have downloaded the App in the ENTIRE WORLD!!
Think about it. Nothing on the news or online or in the papers about MILLIONS of people dying or being killed( Millions on top of the standard numbers who die daily or weekly...etc). Nothing that the Police recognise as a danger - so clearly this is a completely isolated incident, specific to this town and or district.
I mean 'Scream' or 'Halloween', 'Friday the 13th', 'Nightmare on Elm Street' etc etc those are all understandable as isolated incidents, localised. But when they move the premise to Online or even to Mobile Phone Apps then the writers have to become a bit more creative, these things are not isolated or localised, we can all access Websites and Apps from all over the world and an App seemingly as useful as this one would be in high demand the World over...
And this was where the film lost me i'm afraid. I watched it, it was a typical Teen horror akin to the films I mentioned previously, nothing special, nothing clever...Well, clearly it wasn't clever, we had a case of a localised App. Obviously the Demon involved isn't so powerful as to be Omnipresent.