![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s the folder that waits for them when they arrive. The characters are not ‘scouting a location’ for a possible experiment. But it takes a special kind of stupid to have so little faith in the audience’s ability to follow along that they open the movie with title cards explaining the premise:Īnd then have those title cards be factually incorrect about the film’s plot. Hell, the desperate clawing for minutes that the interview segments consist of get oddly sad in the second half of the film, when it becomes clear that the writer/director ran completely out of ideas, and just resorts to having the actress playing Jamie describe things that have just happened, or spoil things that are about to occur. Of course, when you consider that the first eight minutes consist of the characters driving up to the cabin while a horrible song plays on the soundtrack and absolutely nothing occurs, it’s really only a 72 minute movie. Honestly, the only purpose served by these interludes is to pad the running time out to a barely-feature-length 80 minutes. Over the course of five minutes worth of interviews Jamie will reveal absolutely no information the audience needs, or even finds mildly interesting. The strange part of the film is how utterly superfluous the later interview footage is. So obviously he’s not long for the world. And she only refers to the other character “Alex” in the past tense. Just one minute into the movie we see her being interviewed after the main events of the film. I wish what I’d just done there can be called spoiling the movie, but like all the films I cover here for the ‘How to Ruin Your Own Movie’ feature, 909 Experiment is hell-bent on spoiling itself from the earliest scenes. The creepy goings on are that the guy dies and the girl doesn’t. It was made in 1999 as an attempted Blair Witch cash-in, and the plot concerns two young people who head into the woods in order to take part in an ongoing university project about creepy goings-on inside a mountain chalet. It’s quite possible that you haven’t heard of ‘909 Experiment’ – I hadn’t heard of it until a few days ago when I was looking for information about ‘Das Experiment’ online. ![]()
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