If you like found footage films like Chronicle, Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, REC or The Blair Witch Project, you will enjoy Afflicted. (Emphasis on Chronicle) If you don’t, stay away. Afflicted works best if you don’t know where it is going. Afflicted handles a well-worn subject in fresh ways until that unfortunate 45-minute mark, and then it is trope, cliche, trope, cliche. Afflicted lost its emotional resonance, which was rooted in friendship between two men who knew each other since childhood. That friendship added a bit of credibility to scenes that otherwise strained my suspension of disbelief.