Absence

By the time the proceedings reach their "Paranormal Activity"-style violent conclusion, the viewer’s interest has long since waned.

Mundane conversations and outings drag on while the central mystery takes baby steps forward, suggesting that a shorter running time or a more developed script might have better served the originality of the premise.

There’s absence here, all right—of scares, of imagination, and of a good reason to pick up that camera in the first place.

What starts as a creepy, original conceit — mysterious Caesarean-section abductions during hospital stays — devolves quickly into standard talk-to-the-camera, jump-at-the-sounds, found-footage banality.

The tension almost immediately leaks out of the narrative once we realize we're watching a found-footage horror movie.

There are many things absent from this found-footage horror movie, including suspense, logic, and originality.