The Plot

Tired of TV property shows that strive for new ways to entertain you? Then this is the film for you, cos The Plot is as dull as its black-and-white images. Unseen figure shines a torchbeam around a house that's seemingly been abandoned pretty quickly. There's thriller music, a bit of spooky breathing and something of a crackle. Finally the intruder (?) comes across a website address - www.thisistheplot.com - and the film ends with a "Blackwatch for Channel 4" caption.

Go to the website and you find a pseudo estate agency page, boasting of a new homes development. You meet members of a wacky looking Office-style team and you wonder, why? The Blair Witch Project, while overrated as a piece of scary cinema, touched brilliance in the way it raised interest before release via seemingly authentic websites. The Plot has the authentic looking website, but it's authenticity of the most banal kind, a tie-in that both fails to illuminate the parent film, or provide entertainment of its own.

Truly, this is the emptiest of plots.