Maria Fahlsing
Goofs: the heart monitor remains steady regardless of John's emotional state (angry, sad, etc.), whereas his heart should race when angry and be slightly erratic when crying.This movie had potential, but all of that was thrown away with the introduction of Rebecca, the agent from an unknown organization that apparently murders all witnesses to paranormal activity. The organization's function, the agent's job, what was actually happening, why John was murdered, etc. were not explained. In fact, absolutely zero attempt was made to make the ending make any semblance of sense. With the last 5 seconds of the movie, are we actually supposed to assume that the blonde girl is still alive, trapped in the asylum forever until she starves to death?Too many questions were raised, not enough were answered, and there really isn't a resolution. The movie takes a very hard, steep left turn and stops.Very disappointing.
Michael O'Keefe
Six college students finally get permission to inter the infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium that was closed sixty years earlier after a massive suicide. The students want to earn class credits by taking recording equipment and night-vision cameras into the asylum with the task of capturing existence of residual paranormal activity. Not all of the friends are true believers, but soon after being locked in and lights go out and doors slam harboring mysterious sounds and voices...these classmates looking for a good grade will begin getting scared out of their wits. Not only are members of the group going missing, all but one will be found murdered. The lone survivor will be forced to look at film footage collected by his friends in hopes of proving he was not the one that killed them. Obviously a low budget film, with a few scary scenes. You keep hoping the movie will get better as it progresses; but it doesn't. In the cast: Chelsea Vincent, Oliver Rayon, Derrick Scott, Nadia Underwood, Sabrina Villalobos, Brett Edwards and Amanda Barton.
Jae Mills
Let me start off by saying that when I first started watching it, I was expecting something along the lines of "Grave Encounters." Boy, was I surely mistaken. I should have known from the beginning that this was going to be a horrible film when they were using cutaway scenes of one of the guys cheating on his girlfriend. Just a useless sex scene for a chance to show some boob. No reason for it whatsoever. On top of that, these people rarely shake their cameras and just film everything, constantly, with some really poor dialog. At least in other films that do hand-held cameras, it's because they're using the light on them when it's pitch black - it's justified. Not this film, oh no. Plus, there is absolutely no character depth. You don't get to learn anything about their back-stories, except when one dude's getting killed, you find out that his mother is apparently dead. No mention of that earlier in the film or anything. Then we have the even more annoying cutaway scenes to John in the hospital. Let me just say that the guy who plays John and the woman who plays the "investigator" have to be two of the worst actors in in the history of ever. The scenes were cheesy, stupid and pointless. The ending to the film made absolutely no sense. Dealt with some "Secret Special FBI" nonsense that, I guess, is supposed to play into peoples' conspiracy paranoia. If you want a good "paranormal" first-person film, watch "Grave Encounters" or stick to the "Paranormal Activity" franchise. Those are tastefully done and the aforementioned is probably one of the best ghost-films I've seen in over a decade.
Tayler Thompson
I feel like vomiting in front of a camera would have as good of a story as this film. Probably the most predictable "paranormal movie" I've ever seen. I remembered why I never watch horror movies with any certain kind of GROUP of people. They are all the same, and they are all related to fecal matter. I really hope that these actors find greater opportunities than films like this because MOST of them had far more hope than this movie. FAR. MORE. I don't like to be the person that only thinks that high-budget films are quality, because I really respect the hard work that people do that are just trying to make it, but if you're really trying to make something out of yourself by making movies, you really shouldn't let something with this kind of lame, unexplained ending be one of those things you start out with.