Why It Is One Of The Best Found Footage Movies: I applaud mumblecore pioneers Duplass and Brice’s ability to improvise this darkly comic psychological thriller (the first in a proposed trilogy which has an equally haunting 2017 second chapter) almost entirely from beginning to end with deeply disturbing results that stick with you long after.
Amateur videographer Aaron (director Patrick Brice) answers a Craigslist ad to film the final message of a terminally ill man named Josef (co-developer Mark Duplass), whose increasingly questionable behavior begins to make Aaron wonder if it is really his days that are numbered.