Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

pressurehead_cb This movie had the potential to be great. However the complete rip off of the Grave Encounters movie's was more than apparent. The acting was awful, you could not identify with the characters at all, one minute they were terrified, the next happy then terrified again. The script was hopelessly written and you just couldn't engage with the characters 'fear' due to unconvincing dialogue. I'm well aware the camera work was intended to be from the 'camcorder' perspective, however it was TOO jittery. The scares were boring, the story was unoriginal and the ending was a relief when it came. The only GOOD thing about this movie was where it was filmed, it actually looked really good and creepy. But poor cast and crew basically ruined it. Don't bother with this one. Ever. Unless you're a location scout.

natmckn I am, admittedly, a huge fan of the found footage genre of horror films. With that being said, I ignored all previous reviews and gave this movie a shot. I think it's strength is found in its bare-bones approach to the genre. The beginning of the films does a very good job of building suspense while limiting the amount of jump scares. In fact, there were very few of those at all. The horror of it all is a result of the audience really putting themselves into the scene, and every sound and movement just builds the tension to a nerve-wracking state. The actors themselves do a great job of keeping it real. None of the dialogue felt too scripted or forced, and Sean Stone certainly did a great job of adding realism to his character. The plot itself is a little confusing towards the end, but I believe it is certainly forgivable. Instead of shoving a coherent, well-pieced together story down the audience's throat, the film, holding true to the genre's heart, merely shows you what's going on without trying too hard to explain it all. I think that, in itself, is certainly worth applauding. If you're a fan of found footage, I would certainly give this one a shot. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

wadechurton It has been said before, but there comes a moment in everyone's personal 'mapping out' of a genre when one has to put their foot down and say 'here be the bad stuff'. Note the curious non-found footage intro bit with the director's more famous dad Oliver talking around a full dinner table and languidly huffing pot. Eh? Anyway, three unlikeable ADD-afflicted idiots (they can't keep a torch trained on something for less than a split second) break into a 'haunted' asylum to look for ghosts. Here's the sort of incomprehensible, tedious item full of improbably filmed content in conditions of poor visual clarity (honestly, this movie has the worst lighting I have ever seen) which gives the 'found footage' genre a bad name. Camera and torches flick and dart in non-stop headache-inducing spurts, rarely synchronising for longer than a second or so, and of course if we had a video camera and there was a serial killer or vengeful spirit (or both, as seems to be the case here) on our tail, we would take care to do our 'panicked running' with the camera carefully pointing ahead. And so it goes, until the thoroughly mystifying finale, which although frustratingly unsatisfying, nevertheless brings a welcome 'cool side of the pillow' relief that the ordeal is over. Over for the viewer, that is.

Alan Hardman I had to give a 1 because of IMDb but seriously, this movie shouldn't even have that, everything about this movie could have made it a great one, but sadly the idiot who wrote it (sean stone) didn't seem to either understand how to make a decent horror movie, or it was constantly played for $h!its and giggles, which it failed at-abysmally. When watching I constantly got the feel that it was supposed to be the "spirits" or whatever it was, was attempting to drive them insane, and if the movie had been played like that, the whole spiritual power thing was both messing with their minds and the camera as a sort of "its trying to drag the audience in as well" that would have worked out perfectly well, especially with the scenes at the end with 'crazy Kate' (again, as portrayed, doesn't make sense) but we're just supposed to believe that a story told to them at the start just happened to appear at the end? No, it doesn't work like that in storytelling, even if its supposed to be 'inspired by real events' it wouldn't work like that. Ah, getting off topic, this thing just feels draining, you don't like the characters and it never pays off with creepy moments or jump scares, so when you've had the built up feeling of adrenaline in your system flow out of you, you'll feel tired and bored, is that what you want in a movie experience? I just wish people wouldn't make things like this, its insulting, tired, lazy and trotted out, but most of all - a complete waste of money that you could spend on anything else to give you a better experience than this movie will give you.