Stupid Humans... "Hmmmm" moments...
Where would the horror genre be today if it were not for stupid humans?
Chase getting drunk and suddenly developing a moral core made no sense. Usually it is the other way around!
Leaving the hill house to walk what had to be a mile or more towards the truck they had a hit and run with earlier that just so happened to be in the vicinity was the most egregious example of human stupidity I have seen in movies in a long long while. I can think of at least one other way to move the plot along without Chase having to "go apologize" to the truck driver.
The women following Chase into the dark night to "prank" him was the other numbskull move. Okay everyone was drunk but... seriously.
In all honesty even the best of films can have idiot moments. "The Blair Witch Project", the tent pole by which all other found footage in the woods films are measured by, has a horrible moment of human stupidity that sucked me right out of the film: Mike tossing away the map. The first viewing I managed to get past it by rationalizing the spirit compelling him to do it or as he kept saying "It was useless!!" but it WAS nonetheless the *beep* map!! Hard to watch that film now as that moment just bugs me more and more. It would have been better if the map had simply vanished. Like gone. No one saying they tossed it. Some supernatural even stole the map. The vandalizing of their camp would have gone hand and hand with something like that better than one of the team tossing the map away.
Then there were the things that made me go "Hmmmm"
After establishing that the only light they had was the camera suddenly they have a flashlight.
Chase having a bottle of booze on him that looked nothing like the bottle they had in the house (which was their one and only bottle) after leaving without taking it.
The "creature" who presumably was the girl who vanished 20 years ago taking the recently abducted little girls clothes from Amanda and then placing them on the girls body which made her move as if the clothes miraculously brought her to life.
The final shot of Amanda in the police station STILL HOLDING the little girls clothing!!
Shot well (for the format used); interesting inter scenes with the cops; solid performances from all involved in spite of the sketchy script... those were the things that kept me watching after the first *sigh*.