The Depths takes found footage horror in a different direction with astral projection, but slow pacing and an uneven mix of horror styles hold it back.
Plot
After a brother and sister achieve astral projection, the footage they capture reveals the malicious effects of their family trauma.
Good points
- I liked the astral projection idea, and at least it was something a bit different for a found footage horror film.
- The POV footage and some of the stranger visual moments worked quite well, especially when the film started playing around with what we were actually seeing.
- The analog horror elements were a nice touch, and I would have liked to have seen more about that.
- Tristan Reed does deserve credit for trying something different with the genre rather than just giving us another haunted building investigation.
- There were a few little decent moments of horror.
Bad points
- The pacing is a problem I thought, could certainly have done with tightening up the edit a bit.
- The characters never really grabbed me, and I did not really care about what happened to them.
- The film throws together supernatural horror, astral projection and slasher elements, but they didn’t always work particularly well together.
- The slasher side of things in particular felt a bit ordinary, especially when the supernatural ideas were much more interesting.
- The film could have done with more genuinely creepy moments.
- There’s a good idea here, but the finished film doesn’t make nearly enough of it.
Final Verdict
The Depths has an interesting idea and a few decent moments, but the slow pacing and messy mix of horror styles hold it back a bit too much for my liking.
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