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My feeling is, if a handful of people can make a watchable movie as a labor of love for aprox $1500.00, they've already won. my expectations were fairly low going in, but I'm all for people trying to make their own films and I'm rather old school in my tastes for horror films in that I'm way more interested in atmosphere than gore. Again, by this measure, they won, with some caveats.

1. Much of this film was shot (understandably) in queasy cam. Thus, if you get motion sick easily, pop some Dramamine or don't go.
2. It's a bit of a slow starter. I think it's worth it, but you might not.
3. I can't tell you if it's scary or not, as hardly anything scares me. It did seem to impress a number of other audience members significantly more than it did me, and there was a semi-hysterical woman a few rows back. It was atmospheric enough in the right places to keep my attention.

I do think that as a B movie, it was about as good as or slightly better than Drag me To Hell, which, given the relative effects budgets, is pretty damned impressive. It wasn't profound, but it worked quite well on it's own terms. I think it greatly benefited from the low budget as instead of relying on cheap gore and CGI, it relied on acting, suggestion, subtle effects, whoever was doing the sound effects, and the imagination of the audience. As a result, it was much more elegant than modern horror movies tend to be. It was pleasantly old school in conception despite the modern people filming events conceit. I think it also helped, that unlike Drag me to hell, they cleverly included one reasonably sympathetic main character instead of having everyone so despicable you wish they'd die already.

In summation, horror movie wise, it's no [rec]/Quarantine, but it is is pretty solidly entertaining if what you are looking for is a good, solid old school movie to watch leading up to Halloween.