a horror movie that starts with a man arguing with his wife. he noticed that there has been something strange going on outside. like someone was going around his yard late at night.
he bought an expensive security camera setup and we see the point of view from his computers webcam.
every shot is from the point of view from a camera set around the house. the audience quickly is made aware we are watching a recording of the events. at first we have normal daily stuff happen. getting ready for work. a dog wanting to go outside. meal prep.
there's no security cameras inside but we do have the point of view from some computers and smart devices. at night we notice small changes at first. the kind that would require a rewatch to notice.
a knife left on the edge of the counter that was clearly put away properly. a door quietly unlocking itself in the background. the man doesn't notice it because he is obsessed with thinking something is going on outside.
Then things start breaking, cameras suddenly glitching and bigger items moving. a glimpse of a shadow. a dog unheard poops on the floor.
his paranoia rises and he invests more and more money into these cameras. we see him put some inside but we never see the view from these.
instead we see the view from cameras in strange places. and old cellphone found under the bathroom sink. low quality betraying it's age. sights from the eyes of a toy bought for a child.
unusual points of view of view at the best of time. We slowly discover secrets that the house is keeping. an abusive relationship between the couple. a beating that lead to a hidden miscarriage. the woman talking to a friend about how much she hates living here now.
as life in the house unravels the cameras at night start glitching more and more. shadowy faces appear around the corners behind the man. unnaturally sharp teeth gleaming in the dark stalk him.
all evil follows him. distorting the world around him. weapons appear in areas that they should not be. his paranoia grows as he can't see the changes around him, but he does see the conversation between the wife and the friend from a point of view we didn’t.
This enrages him, and after she leaves the next day he leaves the house at an odd time. You see him come home way too early with a heavy trash bag, and he shoves it into the shed. He puts a heavy padlock on the door and puts the key into his pocket. That night the dog starts barking. The shadows are much clearer and knock twisted hands on the windows.
He gets up and rushes to the door with a gun. Clearly recently bought. The dog rushes out with the man quickly following. The shadows caressing his hair as he passes. He turns the corner as he watches the dog barking, biting, and clawing at the shed door. We see blood pooling at the bottom of the door and as he reaches for the key the dog steps in the blood. The dog then turns to attack the man. He then shoots it multiple times.
The next day she is talking to the police about her missing friend as the man finishes burying the dog in the backyard. The police investigate him, and he gives some excuse how some animal was attacking him and the dog got in the way. As he goes back to filling in a hole with way too much dirt for a dog.
We don’t see from the normal cameras anymore. Some old vhs camera in an attic that is pointed at the dripping decapitated head of the friend as she mouths something at the camera. He turns on the light only for it to be an old doll head that he crushes with his foot by accident. A bloody bundle in the basement wiggling just to be shown to be a bundle of old rags. Even at day the glitches happen. The woman now notices them.
The weapons in the house glitching in and out between shots always pointing their handles to him. Sharp edged shadows whispering untold love to him, and fears to her. The next day she attempts to leave. Shook by the events that happened. Upon finding her in the middle of fleeing he in his paranoia points his gun at her. Telling her that he will protect her. She turns to the door and he attempts to shoot her. Only for a bright “dog shaped” light to cause him to miss. He drops the gun to the floor where it misfires.
She escapes into the night as he is left bleeding from a chest wound. Shadows and glitches come out of every corner. Digging deeply into the wound. Soaking into his blood. Now a toxic oil color. Draining him of what life he has. As the decapitated body of the friend holds the dog and her head look on.
After being enveloped by the smoke he becomes a glitch. His desiccated ghost stairs at the camera. And he says “Oh i see now” and smiles and unearthly bright smile. As the camera starts to move you see from the point of view of a cops body cam as his ghost starts walking down the street.
