This is just a boring, terrible horror film which was held back from theaters for 2 years because it was bad. It's Halloween time though and they thought that they might get some poor suckers to pay their hard earned cash to see this slow moving, poorly filmed, non professional film.
But it won awards at Independent Film Awards ! What does that tell you ?
Ghost stories are really easy to do and they have been pulled off on stage by magicians since the 1700's. A mirror, a string on a door will close it, blah, blah..blah. The one good effect was the moving planchette in the living room (I am sure that cost 3/4th of their budget), but there was no one else in the room to react to it, so it just lays there flat. They use the old banging on the door gag from the original "Haunting of Hill House", but unlike that movie; this film doesn't have actors who are able to pull off terror-at all ! When things are unseen on film the actors must be able to convince us that they are real. Every actor in this film does a terrible job in suspending disbelief. I don't even believe when the male lead is making fun of the Ghost Buster. Next the music is really...really important, and with these "Reality" type horror films it just has to be lacking to keep it "Real" (I have quite a bit of spooky songs on my laptop just in case I have a real "ghost" situation in my house so I can play some theme music to get them, and me, into the mood HAHAHA),the lighting is important, also a difficult choice for Reality horror movies as is the editing; here we see only wipes and fades.
It's hard to make a movie, there are so many things that go wrong every minute of the production. New film makers look for something to cash in on, some hook to make their film stand out. The Reality horror market has been Blair Witched out, leave it alone, and find a new way to approach these wonderful benefit to society. Everybody loves to face death (in a safe theater, at home on TV, or even in an amusement park), it fills us with a release that is robbed from us in modern life and is a service to humankind.
I have no doubt that this film, and many others of late, will someday be considered the bad films of their time. Reality is mundane, for the most part, my friends, real horror is mundane, unless you are there to witness it. With Horror Films you should be scaring the crap out of us instead of trying to grab our last nickle...hey, in a way that is scary !
But it won awards at Independent Film Awards ! What does that tell you ?
Ghost stories are really easy to do and they have been pulled off on stage by magicians since the 1700's. A mirror, a string on a door will close it, blah, blah..blah. The one good effect was the moving planchette in the living room (I am sure that cost 3/4th of their budget), but there was no one else in the room to react to it, so it just lays there flat. They use the old banging on the door gag from the original "Haunting of Hill House", but unlike that movie; this film doesn't have actors who are able to pull off terror-at all ! When things are unseen on film the actors must be able to convince us that they are real. Every actor in this film does a terrible job in suspending disbelief. I don't even believe when the male lead is making fun of the Ghost Buster. Next the music is really...really important, and with these "Reality" type horror films it just has to be lacking to keep it "Real" (I have quite a bit of spooky songs on my laptop just in case I have a real "ghost" situation in my house so I can play some theme music to get them, and me, into the mood HAHAHA),the lighting is important, also a difficult choice for Reality horror movies as is the editing; here we see only wipes and fades.
It's hard to make a movie, there are so many things that go wrong every minute of the production. New film makers look for something to cash in on, some hook to make their film stand out. The Reality horror market has been Blair Witched out, leave it alone, and find a new way to approach these wonderful benefit to society. Everybody loves to face death (in a safe theater, at home on TV, or even in an amusement park), it fills us with a release that is robbed from us in modern life and is a service to humankind.
I have no doubt that this film, and many others of late, will someday be considered the bad films of their time. Reality is mundane, for the most part, my friends, real horror is mundane, unless you are there to witness it. With Horror Films you should be scaring the crap out of us instead of trying to grab our last nickle...hey, in a way that is scary !