The label "True Events" seems to be bandied about quite a lot these days. Seems like it's become a pretty accurate epitaph, woefully wailing the warning that "this film does not stand on it's own merit. If it's a well constructed horror film I'll go see it, but it's these painfully discernible gimmicks that give the genre a bad name.
I'm not singling out this movie specifically, it's just that everyone knows how spurious these 'true event' cases really are, there is no need for the studio to undermine our intelligence like we are an audience of trailer park true believers, superstitiously fainting over blurry photos of hazy reflections and stroking our manic erections to the latest "True Events" on Paranormal State, trying to conjure up our own bona fide ecto-batter.