Not bad 7/10
A very successful horror decent atmosphere, it's just a pity that the end will be a more interesting end and find out how it will turn out, if they get out of the madhouse and if they survive at all, you won't know. All that remains is to watch the second part and hope that the unraveling of the whole film will come. But even so, a very successful horror with a decent atmosphere, my rating would be a bit higher, but for that end I have to give a mark less, so I rate seven points out of ten, but still a very well-crafted horror. Sorry my English is very bad.
This is a found footage spoof of paranormal reality shows like "Ghost Hunters" and it works very well. The story centers around the "Grave Encounters" crew who investigate a deserted and supposedly haunted mental hospital.
What works so well here is the setup. Most of the crew, particularly hot shot host Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson), are painted as manipulators of their audience. They scoff their way through interviews with people familiar with the seriously demented history of the hospital. Lance even goes so far as to pay someone whose never seen anything odd occur at the hospital to make up a story on camera.
With that basic level of distrust and dislike established, the "Grave Encounters" team is locked overnight in the hospital. According to Lance, locking themselves inside brings and additional sense of danger to the show's realism.
As is to be expected, strange things, followed by bad things, followed by horrible things begin occurring. Hallways change and exit doors lead to more hallways and tunnels. The hospital is changing. It becomes a maze. Hours turn to days and the crew is slowly killed off by evil spirits and malevolent ghosts. But as the hauntings grow, we start to like the remaining crew members, even the despicable Lance Preston. And it's too bad that all of them are being driven insane as they are relentlessly pursued. It's weird but I was most affected by a moment when a clearly crazed and starving Lance kills and eats a rat.
The special effects are average at best but are used well and the normally cheap and overused jump scare is actually well utilized.
Usually not a fan of the found footage, but they pull this off brilliantly with the film ramping up its chills and intensity every minute.
2 hours of people screaming at each other - I have pretty low standards when it comes to found footage films and somehow this didn’t even meet them :skull:
Characters are insufferable - actors have the skill set of a middle school theater club.
This directors idea of a “scare” is the girl next door wearing too much eyeliner. The poor attempt at CGI turns it into laughable. There’s a point where all these hands come out of the wall and they legit look like Mario bros hands on the N64.
If I had to say something nice, I’d say it does tension building well in the first half. Unlike other FF films though, once shit actually starts hitting the fan this movie tanks in effective horror.
Anyways, I think they tried to do something interesting with the plot in the last 5 minutes, but honestly I was so over it I couldn’t even begin to care.
6/10
Not aged that bad actually to say it's over a decade old now. Definitely still worth a watch and I've always said this franchise deserved a
3rd Installment.
This was a little slow and clunky in the first act,
We got the picture of the set up pretty quickly so their was no need to drag it out as long as they did but by the second and third act it definitely picked up
pace as things got very
Serious very Quickly.
A fair watch with some really cool scenes.
What a shitty horror. Didn't even scared me once, pretty much boring
A very successful horror decent atmosphere, it's just a pity that the end will be a more interesting end and find out how it will turn out, if they get out of the madhouse and if they survive at all, you won't know. All that remains is to watch the second part and hope that the unraveling of the whole film will come. But even so, a very successful horror with a decent atmosphere, my rating would be a bit higher, but for that end I have to give a mark less, so I rate seven points out of ten, but still a very well-crafted horror. Sorry my English is very bad.
A very successful horror decent atmosphere, it's just a pity that the end will be a more interesting end and find out how it will turn out, if they get out of the madhouse and if they survive at all, you won't know. All that remains is to watch the second part and hope that the unraveling of the whole film will come. But even so, a very successful horror with a decent atmosphere, my rating would be a bit higher, but for that end I have to give a mark less, so I rate seven points out of ten, but still a very well-crafted horror.
Found footage screamers have been around long enough to develop their own unique set of stereotypes, and this one totes an armload of them. In following a small group of boldly stupid reality TV producers, out to capture cheap footage of supernatural events, it uncovers the requisite amount of creepy crawlies and recycled scares by way of night vision lens and shaky hand-held camera.
This deserves credit for finding a great setting (an abandoned mental institution that might be a clicheé if it weren't so effective) and for resisting the urge to go completely over the top during the closing scenes. Too many good setups of this kind are blown on an indulgent final act, (Paranormal Activity, I'm looking at you here) so it's nice to see one that's able to keep its chills relegated to short, efficient bursts. The entire cast is thoroughly unsympathetic, though, and their intrepid leader is the worst of the worst. May not tread any new ground, but it also doesn't stumble over any tripwires.
Okay well, after watching many of these films with the typical hand-held camera style I can be confident in saying that this is probably one of, if not the worst I have seen. Firstly it's a stereotypical setting held within a mental asylum, although very typical it can be a great plot line in some cases unfortunately in this it was not. The movie was cram packed full of highly suspenseful scenes which at the climax of the build up ended with showing the viewer absolutely nothing, and somehow after the 'nothing' that happened everyone seems to run away screaming like they saw the ghost of Vincent price himself. These films are so overplayed and have been turned into something more of comedy rather than fear. A window opens here and a door slams there, it has been done before. There ate never ending scenes of sleeping, screaming, crying and loud noises and shaky camera work. This is probably the worst bit , all of a sudden the door of which they entered the asylum is now a meaningless entry door to yet ANOTHER endless abandoned hallway, so now the whole asylum is a labyrinth, soon after this everyone begins to go insane slowly but surely. And to top of this wonderful film when the frontman is the only person inevitably left he kills a rat with a metal pole and eats it in front of the camera, soon after the gracious scene, the most feared people from the asylums past, the doctors who performed the lobotomies on the patients all of a sudden show up and lobotomise our very brave and cocky frontman , THE END!
Okay so, in a nutshell do not bother with this Whatsoever it's a waste of time and quite frankly both me and my friend feel like ringing our box office provider and complaining that not only we would like our money back but as well as that why this atrocity is even featured on their box office.
“Via TiVo recording for my 31 Days Of Horror - have heard it's pretty creepy.”
Plopped my pants !!!!!!!!
The lunatic asylum makes for a spooky setting. Things get interesting when the night doesn't end.....
Shout by WesleyBlockedParent2014-08-25T09:25:11Z
I love on how the actors we're all cheesy when portraying as their "persona's" while filming the TV show.