ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Leofwine_draca EVIL THINGS is a very cheap and average example of the found footage genre. It seems clear that a decade after the runaway success of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT that films are still content to copy and follow it in its wake - in essence, this film is BLAIR WITCH in a house, albeit with a few plot developments.It's very much par for the course, a film clearly hindered by the lack of budget but one which manages to just about get by thanks to the director's handiwork. The small cast aren't particularly good, but attempts to build an uneasy atmosphere work quite well, I thought. The early stuff with the van is well shot and handled, and the later scenes manage to achieve something with very little. It may not be the best of its kind - far from it - but being a massive fan of the 'found footage' genre, I got a kick out of it anyway. Although the villain's weird clicking noise does sound like it rips off THE GRUDGE quite considerably...

metalrage666 This movie is an exercise in tedium and boredom. For most of it, absolutely nothing happens and given that this is yet another piece of alleged found footage garbage, you know that this is going to be another close encounter of the shaky kind.5 friends decide to spend some time away at a remote house somewhere in the country and they end up disappearing. Early on in the movie, there's some kind of weird run in with a van as they travel along and straight away you know that this is going to be the antagonist throughout the coming ordeal.For a great deal of the movie it's just 5 idiots talking about nothing. At one point they decide to go for a long walk into the woods and lose track of where they are and end up hopelessly lost. As night falls they begin to hear strange noises and it becomes a rehash of the Blair Witch as they run around in circles trying to get away from a "noise". They eventually make it back to the house all shaken up and it's around this time that they hear a "thump" at the front door and on investigation they discover a package which turns out to be a VHS tape. On viewing this they discover that they are the victims of a stalker and that they have been filmed since they left the city and have even been filmed asleep in their beds, so it's clear that whomever this van driver is, they clearly have the upper hand.All the action takes place in the last 10 minutes, so if you feel you need to watch this piece of clap-trap, watch the first 5 minutes and then fast-forward to the end and you'll miss nothing at all as you'll still know everything that went on. Everything in-between can be burned and it won't be missed. There is the obligatory FBI notice at the start and end, so we get a feel that this is supposed to be a real missing persons case. The more movies like this I see, it's hard not to think of the U.S as a country full of whack jobs, and it sends a message to just not travel anywhere to the countryside.This is pure drivel and completely derivative, plain and simple. There are no great acts of filming here, no real scares and it's completely devoid of any horror. Give it a miss and re-watch any other found footage movie.

nightwatch4773 After watching the calamity which was V/H/S, I thought I would never watch another "found footage" horror film again. A week later I find myself in front of the TV watching Evil things that I ordered on Ebay and I have to say I was engaged from the get go. The film was shot nicely too, nestled tightly in the snow covered woods. Creepy creepy stuff here that has been done before but this one had a eerie sort of charm to it. The acting was top notch for the shoe string budget they had and the overall direction of the film was great. I thought it could've been 10 minutes shorter from the already short running time but life goes on. If your sick of found footage horror films, don't despair give Evil Things a shot.

diatonic-genus In short, this movie is worthless. It seems like the budget for this film is more like $2,000. Unconvincing, drawn out, boring, disappointing...the list goes on. I was getting so annoyed by what I have to hope to be improv dialog by the actors that I was excited they would get offed, it was getting unbearable. Then, when there is FINALLY some action, you see nothing. While I can appreciate the omission of gore and leaving things a bit mysterious...I don't feel it was well accomplished. The fact that I have never written a movie review ever, but felt the need to just because this movie is so terrible, should say something. Don't even waste your buck twenty at the red box.